Several team members were wondering about their splits from Paul Short. Thanks to freshman Will Schanz, who was recovering from injury and did not run, we have a lot of splits from the meet. It was very difficult and hectic, so we couldn't get them all, but Will (and Lipari) did a great job with them.
Here's what we've got ...
Varsity race, 5km splits
Conor Shelley: 15:35
Tim Keegan: 15:41. Yup. Out too fast.
Will Griffin and Matt Flint: 15:44
Curtis Jensen: 15:49 (guess)
Nick Webster: 15:53
Quimes DelaCruz: 16:00
Zak Smetana: 16:13
Sam McMullen and Pat Duggan: 16:20
JV race, Mile and 5km splits where available
Sean Nestor: 5:12, 16:27. Still too fast but getting better.
Matt Janczyk: 5:18, 16:30. Perfect. Absolutely perfect!
Mike Nicoletti: 5:18, 16:36. Nice, strong race.
Billy Posch: 5:18, 16:36. Ditto.
Brian Townsend: 5:18, 16:40 (not sure of that). Very solid effort on your road to recovery.
Matt Panebianco: 5:18, 16:53. Excellent.
Kyle Havard: 5:18, 17:06. Decent, solid effort.
Joel Moss: 5:26, 17:06. Tremendous. Nicely done.
Greg Masto: 5:26, did not get 5km. Best xc race in a long while.
Ryan Fitzsimons: 5:35, 17:21. Breakthrough effort.
Ryan Brown: 5:27, 17:21. Strong and solid.
Colin Johnson: did not get mile, 17:00. Very good!
Mike Keegan: Missed them both, but you still ran great!
Brendan Green: 5:32, missed 5km. Great job.
Mike Holinko: 5:32, missed 5km. Decent effort and time.
WOMEN'S ANALYSIS
Chuck and I just exchanged some emails this morning and a lightbulb went on in my head. This year's women's team is very reminscent to the 1998 men's team. I know this doesn't mean much to most younger readers of this blog.
That team was the best in school history up to that point, in large part due to three fantastic lead runners in Mike Melfi, Ben Hefferon and Greg Salamone. After that, we had a big gap to our 4th and 5th. Same is the case with the women. The goal with this women's team is the same as it was with that men's team back 11 years ago: Close that gap!
We believe this can be achieved. We had a strong pool of "pack" runners who are definitely capable of closing that gap. That will be the goal at our next two meets, UAlbany and MAACs.
Our remaining schedule, for those keeping score at home:
Friday, 10.16: Penn State National (varsity men only)
Saturday, 10.17: UAlbany Invitational (rest of men's squad, full women's team)
Friday, 10.30: MAAC Championships, VCP
Saturday, 11.14: NCAA Regional, Franklin Park, Boston
Saturday, 11.21: IC4A/ECACs, VCP
Hope to see some alums and many parents/family/friends at some of these events.
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