AMES, Iowa – Kansas State's cross country teams participated in the Big 12 Championships Saturday in Ames and were led by a sixth-place finish for the women's squad, which scored its best team finish since the 2001 season, while K-State's men placed 11th.

Junior Beverly Ramos led the KSU women with a fourth-place individual finish and a 6K time of 20:46.80, while the men were led by Danny Schneider who was 57th with an 8K time of 26:14.33.

The Wildcats now have four top 10 finishes on the season in five total competitions.

Texas Tech's women won the championship for the first time of the Big 12's existence and became only the third different team (Colorado and K-State) to take home the championship in 13 years. Oklahoma State won the men's championship giving the Cowboys their first conference title and snapping a 12-year conference win streak by Colorado.

Sally Kibyago of Texas Tech, won her third career individual women's race at the Big 12 Championships with a time of 19:45.0. Oklahoma State's freshman German Fernandez won the men's race with an 8K time of 23:47.38.

"Our women ran tough and when you run like that you give yourself a great opportunity to be successful," said head coach Michael Smith. "It wasn't any one person effort it was a collect team performance that allowed us to capture our goal of finishing in the top half of the conference."

Ramos was the Wildcats top runner for the fifth consecutive event and finished in the top ten for the fifth time this season. Following Ramos for the Cats was senior Liliani Mendez with a 15th place finish. Sydney Messick ran just her second event of the season due to injury and placed 32nd overall.

Alex Umberger finished 60th.

K-State will continue action at the Mid-West Regional Championships Nov. 15 in Stillwater, Okla.