STANDISH, Maine – The GNAC weekly honors have been released and Saint Joseph's College senior Amber Dostie (Standish, Maine) has been chosen as the GNAC Women's Cross Country Runner of the Week for the 12th time in her career.

Dostie led the Monks with a 19:36 effort and placed ninth out of 140 runners in the University of New England Invitational on Saturday. Her time counts as the fastest ever recorded by a Saint Joseph's female runner at UNE and the sixth-best of her well-established collegiate career. The effort, Dostie's seventh sub-20 time, ranks as the eighth fastest performance in program history.

A three-time GNAC Runner of the Year honoree, Dostie earned three conference top runner honors as a freshman, four as a sophomore and four as a junior. She also claimed a trio of weekly rookie awards and collected GNAC Rookie of the Year accolades as a freshman in the fall of 2011.

Saint Joseph's will race at UMass.-Dartmouth this coming Saturday.

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Saint Joseph's College is Maine's only Catholic liberal arts college, providing a supportive, personalized and career-focused education for more than 100 years. From its 430-acre campus on the shores of Sebago Lake, the College offers more than 40 undergraduate programs to a population of approximately 1,000 students. Saint Joseph's College Online provides certificates, undergraduate and advanced degrees for working adults through an online learning program. For more, visit www.sjcme.edu.