WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. – After dropping her best time by more than a minute and a half over a women's cross country 6K course between her first year and junior year, junior Katryn Yocum (Carlisle, Pa./Boiling Springs) was named the Sol "Woody" Wolf Award winner as Lycoming College's most improved junior athlete at the Lycoming College Most Outstanding Female Athlete at the Senior Athlete Celebration & Athletics Recognition Banquet on Wednesday night, May 8.
 
Yocum put together a great first-year with the Warriors in 2021, quickly establishing her place as one of the fastest runners in program history when she ran a 24:34 at the MAC Championships, the fourth fastest-time in program history.
 
She has only gotten better, winning her first dual meet as a sophomore and then coming up one second shy of the school-record time of 23:48 at the NCAA Mideast Regional. This year, she became the first Lycoming women's cross country runner to earn three all-conference honors in a career and then she outdid herself at the regional, where she broke the school record by nearly a minute, running a 22:51.4 to finish 44^th at the race and become the first runner to earn All-Academic honors from the US Cross Country Coaches Association.
 
The Sol "Woody" Wolf Award is given to a junior who has shown the most improvement in the intercollegiate competition in his/her first three years at Lycoming College. The award is voted on by Lycoming head coaches and athletic department staff.