FOREST, Va. --- The NCAA Division III Cross Country Championships feature the conference's best runners on the national stage in two days' time. Those competitors plus a pair of the league's head coaches have further reason to celebrate with the announcement of the 2024 All-ODAC Cross Country Awards.

ODAC individual champions Olivia Warr and Chasen Hunt earned ODAC Runner of the Year laurels, while their Washington and Lee University and University of Lynchburg mentors Michael Dager and Jake Reed collected ODAC Coach of the Year plaudits from their peers. Bridgewater College first-year Taylor Myers and Lynchburg first-year Alex Jordan garnered ODAC Rookie of the Year honors.

Originally honored and announced at the ODAC Championships earlier this month, the ODAC/Virginia Farm Bureau Insurance Scholar-Athlete of the Year awards were presented to Lynchburg's Kayla Werner and WLU's Keaton Rush.

The announcement of the ODAC's special awards comes the two days before 31 of the conference's top runners take part in the NCAA Division III Cross Country Championships at LaVern Gibson Cross Country Course in Terre Haute, Indiana. The women's six-kilometer event will begin at 11:00 a.m. ET, while the men's eight-kilometer championship will commence at 12:00 p.m. ET. Fans can follow along with the LIVE RESULTS and LIVE BROADCAST if they cannot make the trip to take in the action in person.

Warr and Hunt have been outstanding all season, earning multiple ODAC weekly cross country runner of the week awards and securing individual titles at both the ODAC Championships and the NCAA regional championships. Their efforts help lead their squads to team crowns at both events. The regional team trophies awarded Washington and Lee's womens and Lynchburg's men with automatic entries into the national field.

Reed, who leads the Hornets cross country programs as part of a championship staff under Director of Cross Country and Track & Field Jim Sprecher, claimed his fourth straight ODAC men's cross country coaching honor. This is the sixth time Dager has claimed ODAC top-coaching distinction, joining five consecutive honors he received from 2015-19.

All four individuals – Warr, Hunt, Dager, and Reed – highlighted the ODAC's haul of regional cross country awards. Warr and Hunt earned South Region Runner of the Year accolades, while Dager and Reed garnered South Region Coach of the Year plaques.

At the NCAA Championships, each selected team can enter as many as 10 runners with seven ultimately competing (3 others as alternates). Those 224 runners will be joined by an additional 70 at-large competitors – 10 from each region – for maximum championship field sizes of 294 athletes.

Below is the ODAC's contingent of competing runners as well as the full slate of All-ODAC Cross Country Awards.