2019 Cross Country

[Nevada Hoya]

The schedule for the 2019 season for cross country is at www.guhoyas.com/news/2019/8/14/mens-xc-track-georgetown-cross-country-announces-2019-schedule.aspx
Both men and women will be attempting to get back to the NCAA.

[Nevada Hoya]

It looks as if Mt. St. Mary's will be the sacrificial lamb for both the XC team and the basketball team. They open the schedule for both teams. The bball team should win easily if the Bahamas trip is any indication. The men's and women's teams are unknowns as far as opening the season, as the Hoyas will probably not have their main runners.

[Nevada Hoya]

Coach Bonsey said that the men should surprise some teams this year. We have a lot of depth so this may be true. Eight men should be fighting for seven places. I am not sure if all eight have eligibility (redshirt or out of eligibility), but the eight are Josh Bell, Matt Bouthillette, Spencer Brown (his goal is top 70 at NCAA), Rusty Kujdych, Christian Liddell (if he were not sick/injured at the NCAA Regionals, the men would have made the NCAA final last year), Jack Salisbury, Jack Van Scoter, and Nick Wareham. Nick was a senior last year, but he may have eligibility. He is a key for he was the leading XC runner for the Hoyas last year. He and Jack Van Scoter made the NCAA finals as individuals last year and did very well. Those eight do not include Rey Rivera, usually an 800m man, but with good range, who trained in Arizona last year, and I hope will be back this year, and an outstanding class of freshmen. Outside those eight there are another eight, who may have made improvement to challenge. They are Maazin Ahmed, Reilly Bloomer (who is usually good in the early season), Ty Brownlow, Tristan Forsythe, Quinn Nicholson, Eion Nohilly, Price Owens, and Dylan Scarsone. The team vs Mt St Mary will be probably filled with these runners.

[Nevada Hoya]

The women are a little more difficult to figure out this year. They did not perform well last year, so I hope the new faces (from last year and this year's new recruits) will propel the Hoyas to a better outcome.

That said they just finished their XC camp in Virginia. At least two redshirts from last year should be running: Cathilyn McIntosh, our BE 800m champ as a freshmen, who didn't run XC last year, and Katherine Lee, an elite runner, who ran into injuries last year. I hope she is well now. At least, she participated in the camp. She and Cathilyn are in the first row, the first two on the right as you look at this picture: twitter.com/HoyasTrackXC?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor Margie Cullen is back from illness, so she should contribute. Maddy Perez is also in the picture (standing to the extreme right); I had thought she was out of eligibility, so if she has XC eligibility, that is so much the better. Sami Corman did well in the postseason as an U20 runner. Our transfers, from Princeton and Colorado, Allie Fordyce and Baylee Jones, should contribute and should be in the top seven. It should be an interesting season for the women.

[DanMcQ]

[Nevada Hoya]

Madeline Perez applied for a 6th year due to medical reasons so she has one last season to compete!

[birdman]

Aug 24, 2019 0:01:28 GMT -5 Nevada Hoya said:

Madeline Perez applied for a 6th year due to medical reasons so she has one last season to compete!

That's awesome to hear, great for her!

[Nevada Hoya]

Time for some of the preseason rankings. Men and women are outside the top 25. Caoches' preseason poll out later today.

[Nevada Hoya]

Today is the regional coaches rankings:

Women Top 10 in the Middle Atlantic Region:

RANK TEAM
CONFERENCE 2018
FINAL
1 penn-state PENN STATE
Big Ten 3
2 princeton PRINCETON
Ivy League 2
3 penn PENN
Ivy League 5
4 villanova VILLANOVA
Big East 1
5 west-virginia WEST VIRGINIA
Big 12 6
6 temple TEMPLE
American 4
7 georgetown GEORGETOWN
Big East 7
8 la-salle LA SALLE
Atlantic 10 11
9 george-washington GEORGE WASHINGTON
Atlantic 10 14
10 pittsburgh PITTSBURGH
ACC 9

I think the women can be better than #7 in the region. Again, they should surprise.

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The top 10 regional for the men:

RANK TEAM
CONFERENCE 2018
FINAL
1 princeton PRINCETON
Ivy League 1
2 villanova VILLANOVA
Big East 2
3 georgetown GEORGETOWN
Big East 3
4 penn PENN
Ivy League 4
5 temple TEMPLE
American 6
6 penn-state PENN STATE
Big Ten 5
7 la-salle LA SALLE
Atlantic 10 7
8 navy NAVY
Patriot 8
9 pittsburgh PITTSBURGH
ACC 9
10 saint-josephs SAINT JOSEPH'S
Atlantic 10 10


#3 does not cut it as the Hoyas have to finish 2nd in the Regional meet to make the NCAA. Princeton won the region last year and return all seven from that team. Villanova, whom the Hoyas defeated at BE, finished 2nd in the region and return six of the seven runners, who ran at region. Again, the Hoyas could have come in 2nd if Christian Liddell ran in the meet, but he was injured/sick.

[Nevada Hoya]

The Hoyas return all seven runners that ran in the NCAA regional meet and then some. The finish for the Hoyas last year:

3. Georgetown
2 Nicholas Wareham, So 31:08 5:01
6 Jack Van Scoter, Jr 31:14 5:02
15 Matthew Bouthillette, Jr 31:45 5:07
19 Jack Salisbury, So 31:49 5:08
55 Rusty Kujdych, Fr 32:40 5:16
95 Spencer Brown, Jr 33:16 5:22
123 Eion Nohilly, So 34:14 5:31

The key, beside having Christian Liddell, is Spencer Brown, who finished a poor 95th last year. His goal this year is to finish in the top 70 at the NCAA finals! His preseason work has given him a lot of strength. Couple that with his sub-4 speed should be encouraging if he stays well. He had some sickness problems last year.

[Nevada Hoya]

Of course, being an at-large team is always a possibility, but the goal is to finish in the top two at regions.

[Nevada Hoya]

The women have a way to go to get back to the NCAA XC finals, so baby steps are needed. I think they have the team to be at least top five. Maybe even top four, as Nova has lost seven top runners to transfers. It would be nice if they did well in some of the early season meets to gather some important at-large points, which they didn't do last year.

[Nevada Hoya]

The women who ran at regions last year:

7. Georgetown
51 16 Paige Hofstad, So 21:37 5:48
47 26 Margie Cullen, Jr 21:49 5:51
46 49 Sami Corman, Fr 22:19 5:59
48 62 Katie Dammer, Fr 22:32 6:02
53 83 Meg Mathison, Jr 22:50 6:07
50 119 Kayla Grahn, Jr 23:23 6:16
54 130 Katherine Modrall, Fr 23:31 6:18

Josette must have used her XC eligibility last year. The Hoyas return five of the seven who ran last year. Paige transfered to UNC, and I thought Kayla graduated, and I don't see her in the picture above. With the transfer students, the freshmen, and those who redshirted last year, this team is much better and deeper than last year.

[Nevada Hoya]

In the national polls the women are out of the top 41 as they did not receive any votes.

The men are outside the top 43, as they did not receive any votes.

A perfect year to surprise a lot of people.

[Nevada Hoya]

The women at Mt. St. Mary's

Women 5k Run CC
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Name Year School Finals Points
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Results - Women
1 Gearhart, Kathryn SR Maryland 18:02.04
2 Olshanski, Therese JR Johns Hopkin 18:16.53
3 Dannheim, Suzanne SR George Washi 18:20.33
4 Levy, Sam SR Johns Hopkin 18:21.39
5 Sessa, Rachel SO Georgetown 18:21.92
6 Grusby, Rebecca SR Johns Hopkin 18:24.49
7 Donahue, Maggie FR Georgetown 18:29.25
8 Corman, Sami SO Georgetown 18:30.01
8 Perez, Madeline SR Georgetown 18:30.01
10 Aldridge, Alyssa SO Georgetown 18:30.14
11 Keklak, Ariel JR Johns Hopkin 18:30.73
12 Lang, Brit SR Maryland 18:31.65
13 Cullen, Margie SR Georgetown 18:32.15
14 Dammer, Katie SO Georgetown 18:32.34
15 Tavella, Kate FR Georgetown 18:39.73
16 Meek, Kristin SR Johns Hopkin 18:46.06
17 Ross, Alex SO Johns Hopkin 18:50.70
18 Casey, Morgan SO UMBC 18:52.84
19 Kole, Madeline SR Mount St. Ma 18:54.37
20 Reilly, Caelyn SR Johns Hopkin 18:56.76
21 Laurie, Christine JR Maryland 18:57.08
22 Summitt, Arielle SO Johns Hopkin 19:01.43
23 Jones, Callie FR Johns Hopkin 19:03.00
24 Daniels, Sarah SO Maryland 19:05.11
25 Arizin, Olivia SO Georgetown 19:10.54
26 Horgan, Olivia JR George Washi 19:11.23
27 Wagner, Lauren FR American 19:15.35
28 Moro, Mariah SO George Washi 19:17.48
29 Brown, Stephanie FR Johns Hopkin 19:17.83
30 Henley, Margo SO UMBC 19:21.22
31 Coogan, Margaret JR George Washi 19:21.56
32 McIntosh, Cathilyn FR Georgetown 19:21.79
33 Wilkinson, Brittany JR George Washi 19:23.74
34 Gates, Emily JR Stevenson 19:26.64
35 Coffin, Anna FR Maryland 19:27.52
36 Armonda, Madison FR UMBC 19:28.14
37 Nohilly, Kathryn SO George Washi 19:32.78
38 Wuss, Shelbi JR American 19:36.97
39 Donovan, Naomi FR Johns Hopkin 19:38.22
40 Maple, Sarah FR American 19:39.38
41 Dolan, Claudia FR Maryland 19:48.11
42 Facius, Samantha FR Maryland 19:49.57
43 Jacob, Lauren SR Johns Hopkin 19:50.41
44 Augelli, Caroline SR Maryland 19:51.39
45 Webster, Maisy JR Johns Hopkin 19:51.86
46 Hamelin, Amber SO Johns Hopkin 19:52.31
47 Roberts, Briana SR UMBC 19:56.30
48 Kulkarni, Sarah FR Johns Hopkin 19:57.63
49 Arbour, Peyton FR Stevenson 20:03.58
50 Lopez, Arianna SR American 20:05.35
51 Staats, Anna JR UMBC 20:05.49
52 Kay, Alexandra JR Mount St. Ma 20:06.65
53 Kelley, Ava JR Johns Hopkin 20:14.31
54 Beyer, Emmy SO UMBC 20:16.31
55 Pressman, Jenna SO George Washi 20:17.79
56 Keene, Ana FR American 20:18.47
57 Potter, Rachael FR American 20:18.85
58 Rosen, Allison SR Johns Hopkin 20:24.97
59 Redding, Bridgett SR UMBC 20:29.23
60 Anderson, Malia FR Georgetown 20:31.18

112 finished
-- Lee, Katerine FR Georgetown DNF
-- Long, Theresa FR Unattached X20:20.03
-- Schulties, Kyra Unattached X22:16.07

Some interesting names from other schools: Ariel Keklak of JHU (sister of Andrea), Margaret Coogan of GWU (sister of Katrina), and Kathryn Nohilly (sister of Eion).

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The men

Results - Men
1 King, Andrew SR Johns Hopkin 15:31.93
2 Merritt, Will SO Mount St. Ma 15:36.99
3 Pangallozzi, Jared JR Johns Hopkin 15:38.68
4 Watson, Patrick SR Stevenson 15:40.91
5 Laidlaw, Sean SO Johns Hopkin 15:41.98
6 Murray, PJ SR Johns Hopkin 15:46.65
7 Caggiano, Aidan SO American 15:47.23
8 Sullivan, Russell FR American 15:47.61
9 Dye, Patrick JR Johns Hopkin 15:49.22
10 Kleiman, Matthew FR Johns Hopkin 15:49.72
11 Kole, Isaac JR Mount St. Ma 15:51.19
12 Delahanty, Connor JR Johns Hopkin 15:51.50
13 Joshi, Aditya SR Johns Hopkin 15:52.32
14 Hines, Declan JR Johns Hopkin 15:54.39
15 Spears, Ian FR Johns Hopkin 15:54.84
16 Smith, Miles SR UMBC 16:01.11
17 Moscoso, Juan FR George Washi 16:02.51
18 Baranoski, Taylor SO UMBC 16:02.86
19 Bhat, Vipul SR Johns Hopkin 16:02.96
20 Bell, Joshua JR Georgetown 16:06.08
21 Nohilly, Eion JR Georgetown 16:06.22
22 Brownlow, Ty SO Georgetown 16:06.29
23 Bloomer, Reilly SR Georgetown 16:06.32
24 Belmaggio, Michael FR UMBC 16:06.88
25 Owens, Price FR Georgetown 16:06.89
26 Nicholson, Quinn FR Georgetown 16:07.83
27 Zullo, Tucker FR American 16:10.11
28 Longeway, Alex FR George Washi 16:11.82
29 Amos, Tyler SO Johns Hopkin 16:12.67
30 Ahmed, Maazin FR Georgetown 16:21.73

87 finished

[Nevada Hoya]

I don't know if races were scored but the women and JHU would have tied, the Hoyas winning on the 6th place finisher. For the men JHU would have won. The women ran their top runners, while the men didn't and those who ran did the course at a tempo pace as six of the seven runners were all around 16:06. The worse result of the day is that Katherine Lee did not finish.

[Nevada Hoya]

I just noticed that Rey Rivera is not on the men's roster this year. That is too bad, because I was hoping he could partially replace what Joe White gave us. Rey took off last semester and went to Flagstaff to train in altitude. I don't know what he is doing. I will check and see if he is on the NAU roster.

[Nevada Hoya]

The guhoya.com recap has JHU winning, but I counted it as a tie. guhoya.com has JHU at 38 points, but I counted 2,4,6,11,16 for JHU, which equals 39, with the Hoya women at 5,7,8,9,10 also 39.

www.guhoyas.com/news/2019/8/30/mens-xc-track-georgetown-men-and-womens-cross-country-take-second-place-at-mount-st-mary-s.aspx

Actually, JHU did win 38-39. The Hoyas had their 8th woman finishing ahead of JHU's 5th women. So for intents of XC scoring our 8th runner is invisible, so the JHU women moves up one in the standings, thus giving JHU 38 points: 2,4,6,11,15 = 38.