Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Information on first meet of the track season

Below is the order of events for Saturday’s Jay Carisella Invitational, a meet hosted by Northeastern University but being held at the beautiful Boston University Track and Tennis Facility. This meet is our only first-semester, pre-break meet of the indoor track season. With final exams looming, our athletes need to focus all their attention on academics, and squeezing another December meet out of them makes little to no sense.


As the endless cycle of our sport continues, I have to admit that I am really looking forward to the beginning of track season. We were out at the Spackenkill High School track today on a nice but chilly afternoon. The sprint/hurdle/jump crew that has been working hard with Coach Horton over the past few months looks great, and we are excited to see them in action. We have a lot of new faces; they have been guided by the excellent leadership of our upperclass track athletes – men and women -- whose enthusiasm and spirit in the face of our facility challenges never ceases to amaze me, and it makes us really proud to coach them.

There will be a smattering of distance runners at the meet for our program on Saturday. But really, this is a coming out party – albeit a brief, one-day affair – for our track-only athletes who have busted it since just after Labor Day. Not all of them are able to compete for a variety of reasons, but most of them will be there. Should be fun.

Again, for those keeping score at home, here’s the Saturday slate for all interested …
Running events:
9:45 AM Women’s 5k
10:15 AM Men’s 5k
10:35 AM 60m Women’s Hurdles – Trials
11:05 AM 60m Men’s Hurdles- Trials
11:35 AM Women’s Mile
12:05 AM Men’s Mile
12:35 AM 60m Women’s Dash – Trials
12:55 PM 60m Men’s Dash- Trials
1:15 PM Women’s 400
1:35 PM Men’s 400
1:55 PM 60m Women’s Hurdles – Finals
2:05 PM 60m Men’s 55m Hurdles – Finals
2:10 PM Women’s 500
2:25 PM Men’s 500
2:40 PM 60m Women’s Dash- Finals
2:45 PM 60m Men’s Dash- Finals
2:50 PM Women’s 800
3:10 PM Men’s 800
3:25 PM Women’s 200
3:40 PM Men’s 200
4:00 PM Women’s 1000
4:15 PM Men’s 1000
4:30 PM Women’s 3000
5:00 PM Men’s 3000
5:30 PM Women’s 4x400
5:45 PM Men’s 4x400 
Field Events:
9:30 AM Women’s Long Jump
11:30 PM Men’s Long Jump
1:30 PM Women’s Triple Jump
3:30 PM Men’s Triple Jump

Monday, November 26, 2012

Another new beginning

It was just a few posts ago that we were bidding farewell to the fall 2012 cross country season. Such is the nature of our sport that, after a brief one-week hiatus for the Thanksgiving holiday, here we are at the dawn of yet another track season. Today was the first "official" day of indoor track practice for the entire squad -- our sprint/hurdle/jump crew has been working hard for months already with Coach Horton -- and the talk now turns toward goals for the track season, which stretches from now through winter and into the spring and early summer (with any luck).

The short-range forecast reminds us that fall is indeed almost over; a few inches of nuisance snow are forecast for Tuesday, and the cold weather will be in place for the balance of the week. Our first indoor meet is Saturday at Boston. Track season is here. Ready or not, here we go ...

Friday, November 23, 2012

Recruiting made easy: NXN Regionals at Bowdoin Park

I have been told by well-meaning naysayers that I need to get out and recruit more frequently. Yeah. Yeah. I know. I know. I know! It makes sense. It’s just that, along with being a coach, I’m trying to be a husband and father as well. So it’s not an easy sell, after being away most weekends for meets, to bolt out of town to watch high school kids run in meets, when I can (and should) be home doing more non-track related things.

On Saturday, however, it’s a much easier sell, as the Nike Cross Nationals Northeast and New York Regional races come to our home course at Bowdoin Park. There will be many of our college coaching brethren at Bowdoin to recruit, most of whom have to travel a fair distance on their holiday weekend to watch high school kids run in this meet. We consider it very fortunate to have such a gold mine of recruiting as just a 25-minute ride from my home, on a holiday weekend. So yeah. I’ll be there. Recruiting off campus for a change, oddly enough. So there.

Thanksgiving 2012: A new feel on an old holiday

For the first time since 1985, I spent Thanksgiving in northern New Jersey with my immediate family. This, of course, is a blessing, as my parents are quite elderly and my siblings older, busier and scattered. Any time I can spend with any of them – holiday, non-holiday – is important and to be treasured.

In another way, it was bittersweet. For the past 20 years, I have enjoyed sumptuous and loving Thanksgiving, mostly prepared and hosted by my mother-in-law (well, she wasn’t my mother-in-law until 1995, but I still had feasts hosted by her prior to that!). As many of you know, we lost our beloved mother and grandmother, suddenly and unexpectedly, earlier this year. This holiday season is an emotional challenge as we cope with the chasm left by her loving presence that is no longer here. My mother-in-law was really like a second mother to me; we miss her terribly, every single day. The holiday season simply exacerbates that, but we treasure the memories.

And so, we chose to be with our New Jersey family for this Thanksgiving. Of course, Thanksgiving morning also always means a Turkey Trot road race. For me, that has meant running in, or cheering on, my friends in the Mid-Hudson Road Runners Club at the Turkey Trot from Arlington High School. But with us being out of town, I did the next best thing: A quick Google search (“Morristown + Turkey Trot”) revealed a 5K in Morris Township, N.J. My 13-year-old son Joey and I signed up for this race, which turned out to be HUGE! There were 2,284 finishers, WOW!

It was really cold at the 8:30 a.m. start, and our early pace was way too fast. In fact, it was such a shock to my system that I was not certain I could hold that pace for more than a mile. But once I warmed up and got settled it, we had an enjoyable run together. The course was nice – through Morris and Harding townships near where I was born – and it had a few good hill climbs. Not knowing the course, it was difficult to mete out my effort. Joey is now an experienced modified cross country runner, and he is getting faster. I knew I could not hang with his end of race kick, and so it was that he sprinted away from me at the finish – 24:09 to 24:12.

The rest of the day was devoted to family – visiting one of my older siblings in the nursing facility at which he lives, and then eating and drinking with the rest of my New Jersey family, and watching football on TV (the games were actually pretty good this year!). It was a different experience than normal for us on the Thanksgiving holiday: Emotional, bittersweet, but ultimately filled with the gratefulness normally associated with the holiday. We hope your Thanksgiving was a good one.

Indoor track schedule, 2013

There have been several requests from blog followers for the release of our 2013 indoor track schedule (the first meet is actually in 2012). Here it is, with some explanations …
Saturday, December 1: Jay Carisella Invitational, Boston University. Meet hosted by Northeastern University but held at BU’s fantastic indoor facility. Will be great to get our sprinters/hurdlers going after what has been a strong fall preseason training season. Most XC runners will be skipping this meet as they re-build their base.
Friday, January 11: NYC Gotham Cup, NYC Armory. Traditional season opener hosted by our pal Nick McDonough from NYU; no one runs better, more efficiently run meets than Nick.
Saturday, January 19: NYU Team Challenge, NYC Armory. A new event on our schedule, it will be a Saturday evening meet that is scheduled to run just 3-4 hours.
Friday, January 25: Met Championships, NYC Armory (split squad)
Friday/Saturday, January 25-26: Terrier Invitational, Boston U (split squad). Women race on Friday night. Men race on Saturday all day.
Friday/Sat, February 1-2: New Balance Collegiate, NYC Armory (very partial squad)
Friday/Saturday, February 8-9: Valentine Invitational, Boston University. Women race on Friday night. Men race on Saturday all day.
Friday, February 15: MAAC Championships, NYC Armory
Saturday/Sunday, March 2-3: IC4A/ECAC Championships, Boston (qualifiers only)

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Alumni racing update: Kara Lightowler cranks at Philly!

Thanks to the anonymous commenter for tipping me off that Marist Running Alum Kara Lightowler completed the Philadelphia Marathon in a stellar debut time of 3:15:52. Kara just graduated from Marist this year, and she adapted to the long distance amazingly well! She ran a marvelous negative split race (1:41:22/1:34:30, if I am doing the math correctly?), placed 115th among women and 11th in her age group. Wow! What a great, great race!

In addition, Liza Grudzinski's overall and age group place has been updated and she now finished 27th in the women's field and ninth in her age group. Good stuff.

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Forever Foxes: Farewell to the XC Class of 2012

I love this photo. I absolutely love this photo. Senior XC team member Erin O'Reilly emailed me a bunch of GREAT GREAT photos. But this one, to me, sums up Saturday's IC4A/ECAC meet the best: The back of a Red Foxes' singlet, heading toward the finish line at Van Cortlandt Park, and the finish line of the cross country careers of our wonderful senior class. We will miss this class, as we miss them all, when they graduate. There is something poignant about the end of the cross country season that differs from the end of the track season.

Track is special, and the end of track at the MAAC meet at Rider is truly the end of the line for our seniors. The finality of that bus ride home in May hits even a grizzled old guy like me. But cross country is more poignant in that it is one team running the exact same event on the same day. It forges a different kind of closeness and intimacy. It is why the finish line area on Saturday was a hug-filled, emotional area. I could write a long post about what each and every member of our graduating XC class has meant to us as a program. But given the team nature of the sport, I will just leave it at that. We will miss them greatly. This was a memorable season; most importantly, we had fun -- each and every day of practice. There were no issues -- and amazingly, no injuries! -- this year. That is truly rare.

As Thanksgiving approaches, we can all be thankful for what was a great fall season.

Sunday, November 18, 2012

Alumni racing update: Philadelphia Marathon

Marist Running alums had some stellar performances at the Philadelphia Marathon. Leading the way was Liza Grudzinski, who had a great debut performance with a negative-split effort of 2:55:58. Liza ran the first 13.1 miles in 1:28:47, meaning she came back in the second 13.1 in 1:27:11 if my math is correct. That’s some pretty good stuff! Liza was 44 th overall in the women’s field and 14 th in her age group.


On the men’s side, Matt “CT” Syzmaszek also had a tremendous personal best (Side note: it was originally listed here as a debut, but that was an error on my part, CT ran 2:45:53 in 2008 at Philly; thanks to Walsh for pointing out my mistake ... see this post for details on that race 4 years ago), completing the race in 2:40:00. CT went through the first 13.1 in 1:17:16, and said in a text that he “now knows what the wall feels like.” We should all consider “the wall” around 6:30 pace per mile, which is what he averaged from 30km to the finish.

Other Marist Running alums in the race: David Raucci (2:41:11), Mike Schab (3:06:22).

A few quick shout-outs to non-Marist Running alums who had great races as well: Corey Crowe (brother of Marist Running alum Briana Crowe), who ran a neg split 2:51:08, and David Osterhoudt, who ran an even-paced 3:13:08; Davey O is one of my predawn running partners. This was his second marathon and was about a 20-minute PR.


Alumni racing update: Conor Shelley wins in Central Park

One day after cheering us on and supporting the team at Van Cortlandt Park, Marist Running Alum Conor Shelley -- now running for New York AC -- did some racing of his own. Conor ran in and won the New York Road Runners Race to Deliver 4-miler in Central Park. Conor blitzed the course in 20:02, an average of just over 5:00 per mile. Check the results here. Nicely done, Conor!

Saturday, November 17, 2012

ECAC Championship results

Thanks to Kathy Gould for sharing this team photo. Thanks to Mrs. Gould for organizing the post-race food spread.
For the first time in school history, our women ran in the Championship Division of this meet. And boy, did the ladies represent our program well! We had two All-East performers and we finished in seventh place in a strong field. Coach Chuck reports that Michelle Gaye's time is a Van Cortlandt Park 5km school record for a course that included the Back Hills. Other highlights:

--Kristen Traub was the top freshman in the field, and was All-East
--Senior Katie Messina closed her career with a VCP personal-best
--Personal-best times for Nicki Nesi, Christine Coughlin, Becca Denise

Nicely done to one and all ...


28th annual ECAC Championships
Saturday, November 17, 2012
Van Cortlandt Park, Bronx, NY
Team standings, Championship Division
1-JMU 54, 2-Columbia 94, 3-Princeton 108, 4-St. Joseph’s 118, 5-LaSalle 130, 6-Duquesne 138, 7-Marist 143, 8-Delaware 153, 9-Rider 215, 10-Temple 273, 11-Iona 293, 12-Georgetown INC
Individual results, 5,000-meter course
8-Michelle Gaye 18:09.8 *ECAC All-East
12-Kristen Traub 18:23.7 *ECAC All-East
27-Katie Messina 18:48.5 
49-Erin Thompson 19:15.7
57-Nicolette Nesi 19:26.3 
59-Christine Coughlin 19:29.5 
69-Rebecca Denise 19:38.9 
76-Erin O’Reilly 19:48.0
87-Rachel Bremer 20:17.1
89-Brianna Freestone 20:22.5
90-Brianne Vess 20:40.4
91-Kelley Gould 20:49.0
Coaches Association Race
5,000-meter course
10-Annie Gould 21:11.4
17-Mariella Bilello 21:49.2
18-Rachel Lichtenwalner 21:53.4
20-Laura Lindsley 22:13.7
21-Lizzie Peper 22:24.7
27-Catherine Ferreri 23:57.8

IC4A Championships results

Thanks to Tom and Louise Valentino for sharing this photo, and for helping with the post-meet food spread!
Last year, the men placed 12th in this race. This year, the finishing place was seventh. Cross country is about place, so this would have to be considered a strong meet for us and a capper to an excellent season, start to finish.

However, because this is Van Cortlandt Park, and we have so much program history at Van Cortlandt Park, finishing times do matter. For some odd reason, the times today -- across the board, every team, every place -- were remarkably slower than normal. In fact, longtime Fordham coach Tom Dewey -- one of the meet organizers/directors, and the guy who lays out the course -- was wondering just that as he watched the Championship Division race today (his team ran the University Division). The weather was ideal for Nov. 17 -- sunny and chilly, a slight breeze out of the north. So. Who knows?

Anyway, here are the results. More analysis and commentary at some point. Again, a strong season for the Running Red Foxes.


104th annual IC4A Championships
Saturday, November 17, 2012
Van Cortlandt Park, Bronx, NY
Team standings, Championship Division
1-Georgetown 45, 2-George Mason 56, 3-St. Joseph’s 77, 4-Boston College 117, 5-Harvard 162, 6-Iona 190, 7-Marist 203, 8-Rider 212, 9-UConn 255, 10-Columbia 275, 11-LaSalle 286, 12-Duquesne 289, 13-Central Connecticut 295, 14-Temple 360
Individual results, 5-mile course
12-Arquimedes DelaCruz 25:35.1 *IC4A All East
33-Ken Walshak 26:06.3
36-Ryan Colabella 26:08.2
59-Pat Rynkowski 26:33.1
83-Mark Valentino 26:56.4
91-Nick Salek 27:04.6
94-Johnny Lee 27:09.9
99-Joel Moss 27:19.5
101-Justin Tampellini 27:24.8
117-Mike Keegan 28:08.1
122-Charlie Ropes 28:47.0
Coaches Association Race
5-mile course
6-Billy Hild 27:42.7
7-Kevin O’Sullivan 27:50.4
8-Billy Posch 27:51.0
9-Mark Vuono 27:53.2
13-Chris Reynolds 28:12.2
15-Omar Perez 28:17.2
16-Ty Gamble 28:21.3
17-Mike Nicoletti 28:21.3
18-Tommy Lappas 28:26.2
19-Will Schanz 28:39.8
21-Ian Dorset 28:43.4
24-Pat Deedy 29:06.8
27-Doug Ainscow 29:17.7
30-Dan Stanilewicz 29:58.1
32-Ricky Willi 30:51.6

Friday, November 16, 2012

The endless cycle

IC4A/ECAC day at Van Cortlandt is always one of mixed emotions, as it signals the end of our seniors' cross country careers -- moments we really don't want to end. It has also been a day where we as coaches have felt two gravitational pulls -- we want to be with our teams, and we want the season not to end, but a part of us also wants to be up the road at Bowdoin Park to watch the New York State Federation XC meet. Alas, we cannot be in two places at once. This year, the pull is not as strong, because as coaches we actually CANNOT be at Feds because it is an NCAA recruiting Dead Period this weekend. So the guilt of not being there is eliminated.

Again, this time of year is odd. We are completing one cycle with our seniors, all the while working on a whole new cycle with a new crop of prospective student-athletes (recruits). This Saturday, we will be at Vanny closing out our season; next Saturday, we will be at Bowdoin for the NXN Regional meet (along with several dozen other college coaches), scouting out the prospective next versions of Running Red Foxes. The cycle never ends.

Where it all began

Every once in a while, I get the question: Why did you start running? Because I started more than 30 years ago, the answer has always been a vague, foggy recollection to me. There's the story of a kid on the cross country team in high school, who during gym class one day recruited me to join the team because "you are skinny and look like you can run." Or how, as a 12-year-old kid, my neighborhood friends and I would "play marathon" after watching the Montreal Olympics on TV.

But the reality of the matter is, I can pinpoint this one article by Kenny Moore in a long-faded Sports Illustrated as motivating me to start in the sport. For those who don't know Kenny Moore, he was a very talented runner at Oregon during the halcyon days of Pre, a two-time Olympic marathoner who finished fourth at the Munich Olympics. He has had a long and storied writing career as well -- many may know him for writing the definitive biography of his coach Bill Bowerman. Growing up, I knew him as an awesome writer for SI. Whenever SI would arrive at our house, I immediately scanned to see if any of his articles were in there. This article -- warning, it's LONG -- details a three-week stage race in Hawaii, the Great Hawaiian Footrace, that he won back in 1979. It is wonderfully written and spurred me to take my first running steps as a high schooler on Jan. 1, 1980.

Please take the time to read it, with the money sentences coming at the very end: "The larger conclusion was that all racing was arbitrary, the chance elements of distance, of terrain, or temperature, combining to choose a winner. What was left, what was important, was how the long struggle moved us, how it toughened us and stretched and then mingled all these disparate souls."

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Philadelphia Marathon on Sunday

Programming note: Several members of the Marist Running family -- alumni, friends, etc. -- will be running in the Philadelphia Marathon on Sunday. This is a great race -- excellent course, usually good weather, fast times. We wish everyone well. If you are running at Philly, please be sure to email me at runhed246@hotmail.com with photos and/or text me with results. It's an early race start, 7 a.m., so hopefully we'll be getting positive reports before heading off to Mass with the family later in the morning.

We hope to see one and all at Van Cortlandt Park on Saturday for our season-ending ECAC/IC4A Championships. We are in the first four races of the day, which should be fun. Weather looks to be sunny and chilly -- not bad for November!

Monday, November 12, 2012

Track season is right around the corner

In keeping with my longstanding policy of not overly discussing the next season until the current season is complete, I will wait until next week to formally release our indoor track schedule here on the blog. However, as cross country winds down, thoughts of track are starting to crowd our head. Trust me: They are very pleasant and exciting thoughts, as we have high hopes for our indoor and outdoor seasons. To give you a taste, I would like to announce that our December season-opening meet will feature a new twist as we will be attending the Jay Carisella Invitational, hosted by Northeastern but held at the Boston University track. The date is Saturday, December 1. More details on this meet, and the 2013 winter season, soon.

Zak Smetana completes Richmond Marathon

Congrats to Marist Running Alum Zak Smetana for completing the Richmond Marathon on Saturday in 3:08:41. Zak texted me that he was doing well until about the halfway point, when a calf injury started bothering him. His last 10km amounted to a death march. But he still finished! Like Brian Townsend, Zak had been scheduled to run NYC. Richmond was a last-minute fill-in race for him.

IC4A/ECAC meet: Info for family/friends

As this is our last meet of the cross country season, and right now the weather is looking pretty good, our post-race tailgate seems to be forming quite nicely. If you'd like to contribute to some post-meet refreshments please e-mail Kathy Gould at kathygould@optonline.net as she will coordinate. Any and all contributions are welcome, but please do not feel obligated. We will bring the Marist Red Foxes popup tent in case of bad weather, and as a way for everyone to find everyone. Thanks to Kathy for organizing the effort, and we look forward to seeing everyone there.

Sunday, November 11, 2012

Brian Townsend debut marathon: 2:46!

Congratulations to Marist Running Alum Brian Townsend (Class of 2012), who completed Sunday's Harrisburg Marathon in the Pennsylvania state capital in a stellar debut time of 2:46:58. Brian was 17th overall in a stacked field -- 61 runners cracked the 3-hour barrier! -- and fourth in the 20-24 age group.

Brian, living in the city now and going to grad school at Columbia, had been scheduled to run the NYC Marathon last week. But alas, that did not work out. So he opted for this backup-plan marathon, and made the most of it.

We heard many choruses of "never again" and "one and done" from afar after the race. But who among us has not felt that way after a 26.2-mile flogging? We are very proud of Brian for stepping up to the marathon distance so quickly and so adeptly.

One more hill to climb, baby ...

For many college coaches and programs that I know, the recently completed NCAA Regionals represents the end of the fall cross country season. Here in the East, several programs view the upcoming IC4A/ECAC meet as an anticlimactic coda to the season. Or worse yet, they just blow it off and call it a season at regionals. Not here. Not us. IC4A/ECAC is a BIG meet in our universe. It represents the final piece of the three championships that comprise our championship season. One more hill to climb, and it is Saturday, at a place that we have oddly avoided up until now -- Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx.

The IC4A/ECAC meet has always held a place of lore for us. Back in the day, pre-1997, the meet doubled as the Eastern championship as well as a dual NCAA Regional meet rolled into one. It was a BIG DEAL, indeed. After the current regional format was hatched in 1997, the IC4A/ECAC Championship became a midseason meet, two weeks prior to conference championship weekend. But alas, with the growth of the NCAA Pre National meet, as well as the conflict with the New England Championship, it sank the meet further into irrelevance. So then, it was moved to its current end-of-year format, where it has more or less thrived -- despite the apathy on some schools' parts.

For teams like us, the meet is a great way to conclude the season with the entire program reuniting at a meet for the first time in more than a month. Here is the race schedule, for those that are interested in attending:

Women's Open 5km: 9:30 a.m.
Men's Open 5-mile: 9:40 a.m.
Women's ECAC Championship: 10:30 a.m.
Men's IC4A Championship: 11 a.m.

For those keeping score at home, the title of this post pays homage to one of the greatest sports calls of all time, made by Howie Rose in the 1994 NHL playoffs. One more hill to climb, indeed.

Friday, November 9, 2012

NCAA Regionals: Men's results


NCAA Northeast Regional
Friday, November 9, 2012
Hammonasset Beach State Park
Madison, CT
Men’s team scores
1-Iona 45, 2-Columbia 72, 3-Syracuse 73, 4-Dartmouth 144, 5-Providence 154, 6-Harvard 163, 7-Cornell 211, 8-Yale 248, 9-Boston University 372, 10-UMass 376, 11-Brown 405, 12-Boston College 408, 13-Marist 414, 14-Army 442, 15-Stony Brook 463, 16-Buffalo 466, 17-Central Connecticut 492, 18-Maine 511, 19-Canisius 514, 20-Northeastern 517, 21-New Hampshire 542, 22-Albany 544, 23-Quinnipiac 620, 24-Fairfield 621, 25-Fordham 653, 26-Vermont 683, 27-Hartford 718, 28-Binghamton 760, 29-Colgate 805, 30-Siena 838, 31-Holy Cross 846, 32-Sacred Heart 926, 33-Manhattan 966, 34-St. Bonaventure 1042, INC-Rhode Island, Wagner, Bryant, Hofstra, Connecticut

Men’s individual results
10,000-meter course
26-Arquimedes DelaCruz 31:06.1
69-Ryan Colabella 31:51.9
85-Ken Walshak 32:06.6
103-Joel Moss 32:30.9
141-Justin Tampellini 32:55.2
164-Pat Rynkowski 33:22.4
183-Nick Salek 33:45.9

NCAA Regionals: Women's results

NCAA Northeast Regional
Friday, November 9, 2012
Hammonasset Beach State Park
Madison, CT
Women’s team scores
1-Providence 46, 2-Connecticut 67, 3-Cornell 118, 4-Harvard 150, 5-Boston College 150, 6-Syracuse 167, 7-Yale 215, 8-Brown 223, 9-Columbia 226, 10-Dartmouth 234, 11-Stony Brook 330, 12-Vermont 355, 13-New Hampshire 367, 14-Albany 432, 15-Buffalo 517, 16-Sacred Heart 525, 17-Marist 562, 18-Boston University 571, 19-Iona 578, 20-Quinnipiac 587, 21-Army 629, 22-UMass 648, 23-Bryant 676, 24-Hartford 731, 25-Colgate 736, 26-Fordham and Binghamton 748, 28-Fairfield 763, 29-Maine 779, 30-Central Connecticut 806, 31-Holy Cross 851, 32-Canisius 885, 33-St. John’s 956, 34-Northeastern 1040, 35-Manhattan 1044, 36-Hofstra 1076, 37-St. Bonaventure 1078, 39-Holy Cross INC
Women’s individual results
6,000-meter course
69-Michelle Gaye 21:28.1 *school record
82-Kristen Traub 21:43.7
107-Katie Messina 22:09.0
140-Christine Coughlin 22:39.8
165-Nicki Nesi 23:07.7
198-Rebecca Denise 23:34.2
204-Erin Thompson 23:44.7