CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - Led by a pair of individual champions, the Virginia men and Florida State women successfully defended their team titles at Saturday's 2008 Atlantic Coast Conference Cross Country Championships.

Ryan Foster posted a first-place time of 24:27.7 on the 8K Ranson-Hamrick Course. Three other Cavaliers posted top-10 finishes as Virginia claimed its third ACC men's title in four years and its fourth overall.

Susan Kuijken, whose time of 20:11 in the women's 6K race edged Virginia Tech's Tas Fanning by six-10ths of a second, captured her second straight ACC title and keyed a dominating performance that saw FSU place four runners among the top seven and five among the top nine.

Virginia's men tallied 40 team points to place ahead of second-place NC State (56), Virginia Tech (75) and Florida State (80). Duke placed fifth with 127 points, while Boston College and Maryland tied for sixth (199). Host team North Carolina was eighth (209) followed by Clemson (212), Georgia Tech (239), Wake Forest (342) and Miami (372).