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