NEW ORLEANS— Colorado Mesa University women's cross country runner Megan Hodges officially U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association's NCAA Division II All-Region honors on Monday following her performance at Saturday's South Central Regional Championships in Pueblo, Colorado.
 
Hodges, a fifth-year senior out of Aurora, Colorado, finished 11^th in the individual standings in Saturday's race, posting a personal-best time of 21 minutes, 12.7 seconds on the 6,000-meter circuit at Walking Stick Golf Course.  Her 11^th place finish is the best for any Maverick at a regional championship since Alexia Chapman also finished 11^th in 2016.
 
The USTFCCCA's All-Region honors go to the top 25 individual finishers in each of the eight regional meets that were contested around the country on Saturday.
 
Hodges is only the seventh different Maverick woman to earn ten total all-region accolades in program history. 
 
However, the Mavs have been represented in four of the last five years, with current Maverick Kira MacGill claiming said honors in 2021 and 2022 before Kirstin Williams earned on in 2023 en route to a NCAA Championship selection as an individual.
 
Hodges had also been named to the First Team All-Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference team earlier this season after finishing 13^th in the conference meet on Oct. 25 in Colorado Springs.
 
Led by Hodges' effort, the nation's 15^th-ranked Mavericks took seventh as a team in Saturday's regional, their highest regional finish in 11 years since 2014.  The Mavs are now awaiting a hopeful a repeat at-large berth to the NCAA Championships, which will also be announced on Monday afternoon.
  2008    Alexis Skarda
2010    Alexis Skarda
2011    Alexis Skarda
2016    Alexia Chapman
2016    Lauren Lipski
2016    Reanna Jereb
2021    Kira MacGill
2022    Kira MacGill
2023    Kirstin Williams
2025    Megan Hodges