Lindsay Cunningham was named the 2023 NCAA Division II Women’s Cross Country National Athlete of the Year. Cunningham, who hails from Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, put a stamp on one of the most dominant seasons in recent memory with an individual title at the 2023 NCAA DII Cross Country Championships in Joplin, Missouri. She took off from the start, led by nearly six seconds at the 1k split and extended that to a 15.1-second victory in a time of 19:30.1. Cunningham won all six of her competitions, including other individual titles at the Green Bay Phoenix Open, the Greeno/Dirksen Invitational, the Lewis Crossover, the NSIC Championships as well as the Central Region Championships.