Albert Lea’s Chrissy Monson has a pretty impressive résumé of accomplishments already as a ninth-grader and she added to that Thursday at the Mayo Invitational in Rochester.

Monson set a course record at the meet with a time of 15 minutes, 18.59 seconds, shattering the previous record by 10 seconds as she topped the field at the meet.

“It was a great race for Chrissy as she would say that she has her swagger back,” said Tigers head cross country coach Jim Haney. “She ran with a great deal of confidence and it showed as she destroyed the course record by 10 seconds.”

Her nearest competitor was 10 seconds behind her as well as she took the lead in the beginning of the race and kept it the entire time.

Monson’s first place finish helped give the girls’ team a 13th place finish. Ashley Tewes was the next best finisher with her 81st finish. Right behind Tewes was teammate Carol Lein who ran a time of 18:30.90 in the 4-kilometer race. Sam Stanley was the fourth-best runner for the Tigers with her 98th place finish and time of 19:13.74. Lauren Klick rounded out the top times for Albert Lea with her time of 19:27.35, good for 103rd.

Rochester Mayo won the meet with 80 points to edge out Hastings.

“I was very pleased by the effort and results at the Mayo meet,” Haney said. “We expected a tough course with many hills and great competition, we got both and handled the challenge. We are getting better as every runner is starting to come into his or her own.”

Steven Kreun helped lead the boys’ cross country team to a 13th place finish as well with his time of 18:17.71 in the 5-kilometer race, which was good for 47th overall.

Eighth-grader Blair Bonnerup took 64th overall with a time of 18:52.12 while senior Brian Reindl finished 75th with a time of 19:17.96 and junior Joe Daniels was just behind Reindl in 77th place with a time of 19:23.78.

“Currently on the varsity I’m running one eighth-grader and three ninth-graders,” Haney said. “These young men are getting better and gaining in experience for later meets and later years. These boys are holding up well even when they are running against competitors three to four years older than they are.”

Albert Lea has two meets next week beginning Monday at Fairmont and concluding Thursday at Winona.