Paul Short Cross Country at Lehigh University (9/30)

[sheasdad]

Looking forward to seeing Birdman and maybe others at the Paul Short XC meet in less than 2 weeks on Friday, September 30th.

Both the men's and women's teams are running and while it is a ways away I'm giving people a heads up that we'll be having a tent this year for family, friends and alumni to cheer on the Hoyas in PA - our best proxy for a "Home" XC meet.

If you plan to join us and you are able to cart items to the course, please sign up to bring a snack or beverage.

PARENT / ALUMNI / ATHLETE Snack / Beverage Sign Up:

www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0F4EA4AC2DA4F8C61-paul1

(FYI, our tent is about a ¼ mile from the parking lot across a lawn. So please plan accordingly.)



Thank you! We hope to have lots of family, friends and alumni gathered to support the Hoyas!

[Nevada Hoya]

Sounds like a fun event. Wish I could be there.

[Nevada Hoya]

In the national rankings the men moved up 6 places to 17th. That is one place ahead of Nova and three places ahead of Syracuse.

North Carolina made the biggest jump into the top-15 in Week 2, as it climbed four spots from No. 17 to No. 13 following a winning effort at the Coaching Tree Invitational. The Tar Heels held off a strong charge from NAU and now-No. 17 Georgetown (up six spots) in Bloomington, Indiana. North Carolina amassed 53 points, five fewer than the Hoyas and seven fewer than the Lumberjacks. The Tar Heels put three runners in the top-10, led by Will Coogan in fifth place.

The women move up one spot to 18th. In the Big East Providence is three places ahead of the Hoyas.

North Carolina continues to creep closer to the top-10 after climbing two spots to No. 11. The Tarheels won the Coaching Tree Invitational and topped now-No. 18 Georgetown, 37-53. Brynn Brown captured the individual title in 20:18.6 to lead UNC and earned M-F Athletic National Athlete of the Week honors for her efforts.

[Nevada Hoya]

Congrats to Parker Stokes on being named the BIG EAST Cross Country Male Athlete of the Week‼️

[birdman]

Unfortunately, I'll be in Chicago for work and unable to make it to Lehigh. Bummer.

Have fun, sheasdad and everyone in attendance. Good luck to the teams and Go Hoyas!

[sheasdad]

Birdman you will be missed. But I'll give you a little more advance notice for the next event: The Big East XC Champs Saturday October 29th in Attleboro MA.

We'll have our tent for friends/family/alumni back. Attleboro is about ten miles north of host Providence and thirty miles south of Boston.

[Nevada Hoya]

Both the men and women retain their positions as #1 in the Regional Rankings.

[Nevada Hoya]

On the men's side Princeton replaced Nova as #2 in the mid-Atlantic region.

[Nevada Hoya]

The men remain at #17 in the national poll. The women remain at #18.

[Nevada Hoya]

In the Paul Short meet at Lehigh there are 46 teams in the Gold race for the men and 47 teams in the women's Gold race. There are only 31 teams in the nationals.

[Nevada Hoya]

The men are starting in box 28 of 47 (correction from above) next to Providence and LaSalle.

The women are staring in box 40 of 47 next to Guelph and Bowling Green.

[Nevada Hoya]

The Paul Short Run will be one of the largest cross country events in the world with a total of 3,692 college entries spread over 286 teams. The high school portion will have 203 teams and 1903 entries.

[Nevada Hoya]

For those, who are going:

RACE SCHEDULE: Friday Sept. 30
9:30am Men’s Open 8K Race
10:15am Women’s Open 6K Race
11:00am Men’s College Gold 8K Race
11:45am Women’s College Gold 6K Race
12:15pm Men’s College Brown 8K Race
1:00pm Women’s College Brown 6K Race
1:45pm Men’s College White 8K Race
2:30pm Women’s College White 6K Race
3:30pm Boy’s HS Brown 5K Race
4:00pm Girl’s HS Brown 5K Race
4:30pm Boy’s HS White 5K Race
5:00pm Girl’s HS White 5K Race

[Nevada Hoya]

For the men:

Lineup (Gold Race): Camden Gilmore, Lucas Guerra, Sean Laidlaw, Quinn Nicholson, Price Owens, Matt Rizzo, Abel Teffra, Jantz Tostenson and Shea Weilbaker (notice no Parker).
Lineup (Open Race): Marlon Belden, Ethan Delgado, Matthew Griffin, Rusty Kujdych, Jack McLoughlin and Joshua Peron.

For the women:

Lineup: Sami Corman, Maggie Donahue, Chloe Gonzalez, Mary Hennelly, Grace Jensen, Katy-Ann McDonald, Pippa Nuttall, Chloe Scrimgeour, Kate Tevella, and Julia Trethaway.

[Nevada Hoya]

Open results

8 Marlon Belden
Georgetown [FR] - 500
24:19.3
11 Jack McLoughlin
Georgetown [FR] - 509
24:26.7
21 Rusty Kujdych
Georgetown [SR] - 506
24:35.6
181 Joshua Peron
Georgetown [FR] - 512
26:05.7
DNF Matthew Griffin
Georgetown [FR] - 503
DNF Ethan Delgado
Georgetown [SR] - 501

[Nevada Hoya]

Men's Gold race

Shea Weilbaker [JR]
17 13 16 23:23.2 4:55.3
Lucas Guerra [FR]
24 5 23 23:27.7 4:47.5
Quinn Nicholson [JR]
33 15 32 23:31.2 4:46.2
Abel Teffra [SO]
34 4 33 23:31.4 4:51.1
Sean Laidlaw [SR]
35 7 34 23:31.7 4:48.4
Price Owens [JR]
54 (53) 23:41.6 4:54.0
Camden Gilmore [SO]
79 24 (77) 23:51.8 5:03.9
Jantz Tostenson [SO]
94 24:00.0 4:59.2
Matthew Rizzo [SO]
103 7 24:04.4 5:01.5

The first 6:

1 North Carolina
64
1 2 17 20 24 (52) (62)
2 Villanova
100
4 5 9 10 72 (78) (94)
3 Utah State
105
3 14 21 27 40 (80) (84)
4 Georgetown
138
16 23 32 33 34 (53) (77)
51 Duke
157
15 18 19 44 61 (66) (81)
6 Providence
215
11 13 45 59 87 (221)

[Nevada Hoya]

Women's Gold race

Maggie Donahue [JR]
3 19:37.1 8:52.3
Chloe Scrimgeour [SO]
4 19:37.5 8:52.8
Sami Corman [SR]
5 19:38.6 8:54.3
Grace Jensen [SR]
10 19:49.5 9:05.0
Katy-Ann McDonald [SR]
45 20:22.2 9:36.4
Chloe Gonzalez [SO]
53 20:27.1 9:34.9
Pippa Nuttall [JR]
84 20:41.7 9:45.5
Mary Hennelly [SO]
167 21:21.2 10:17.0
Julia Trethaway [SO]
218 21:35.8 10:12.6
Kate Tavella [JR]
283 21:59.3 10:18.7

Top 3

1 North Carolina
63
6 8 12 17 20 (31) (33)
2 Georgetown
67
3 4 5 10 45 (52) (83)
3 Providence
176
7 37 38 43 51 (64) (77)

The women had four runners in the top 10; now they have to get the 5th runner to step up. Katy-Ann fell 19 places from two miles to 6K.

[Nevada Hoya]

So darn UNC (Chris Miltenberg and Dylan Sorensen) beat us again in both men's and women's races.

[Nevada Hoya]

Three of the Hoya women beat Brynn Brown, UNC's first runner and winner of the Coach's Tree race. Also, the Hoyas were 1,2,3 among American born runners (as a Kenyan and Dutch woman were 1,2).

[Nevada Hoya]

The surprise was the Villanova men with four runners in the top 10. They will be tough at the Big East meet. I see them moving to #1 in the region.