Last week, the
Marist athletic department released schedules for all fall sports – men’s and
women’s cross country included. Even though summer is not yet a month old, our “summer”
is nearing its conclusion – a month from today is the first official practice
of the cross country season! We look forward to our first full and normal
preseason training camp since 2019. Based on the excellent barbecue we had two
weekends ago, the team vibe is quite strong and the men and women are eager to
get together and start training and forming the nucleus and the personality of
cross country 2022 and cross country/track 2022-2023. Alert alums have noted a
subtle but important shift in our 2022 schedule. The IC4A/ECAC Championships, a
staple at the end of each fall season, will now be moved into October as a mid-season
championship. This alters the dynamic and the flow of the season significantly.
Most recent alums don’t understand the move but it is not unprecedented. Back
in the late 1990s, this is where the meet resided on our schedule. The current,
end-of-season model was falling apart. The majority of ECAC-member institutions
were either not attending or not taking it very seriously. The meet was still a
championship in our mind but it had been greatly diminished. We’ve had great
history at this meet and we are committed to following it wherever it lands on
our schedule. Anyway, that’s the story with that. Here’s our schedule from
start to finish, for fall 2022.
Saturday, September 3: Marist Season Opener, Vassar Farm and
Ecological Preserve, Poughkeepsie, NY (men’s 6km/women’s 5km)
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