2024 Cross Country

[birdman]

(Note: wow, the Princeton athletics website is a nightmare mess)
This could be a

Men's Field:
Boston College
Boston University
Brown
Colorado St.
Columbia
Cornell
Dartmouth
Georgetown
Iona
Monmouth
North Carolina
Penn
Penn State
Princeton
Providence
Rider
Rutgers
Stony Brook
Syracuse
Toledo
UMass Amherst
Villanova

Bolded teams are projected to get an Automatic bid to Nationals, including Princeton and Villanova, the two teams ranked ahead of the Hoya Men in the Mid-Atlantic Region. This could be another chance to snag an at-large point or two, as well as to see how they match up against Big East rival Providence (who the Hoyas beat at Nuttycombe)

[birdman]

Women's Teams:
Boston College
Boston University
Brown
Colorado St.
Columbia
Cornell
Dartmouth
Georgetown
Iona
La Salle
Maryland
Monmouth
North Carolina
Penn
Penn State
Princeton
Providence
Rider
Rutgers
Stony Brook
Syracuse
Toledo
Utah State
Villanova

The Hoya Women are favored to win the Mid-Atlantic Region in the latest polls (and every poll this season). If they are running at full strength, it will be interesting to see them against Providence and Syracuse, as well as 3 of the other top-5 teams in the Mid-Atlantic in Penn St. (2), Villanova (3), and Princeton (5).

[RG]

This should be a very good test for the women. North Carolina also has a strong team and there are some very good individual runners competing from weaker teams.

[Nevada Hoya]

Women's race

1K
4 Georgetown 117 points

1500
3 GU 99

2600
3 GU 90 (3 in the top 10)

3200
3 GU 80 (1 point behind UNC)

[Nevada Hoya]

4300m

2 GU 65 Chloe S 1st

[Nevada Hoya]

5200m

1 GU 58
2 Provy 60

[Nevada Hoya]

Final

1. Georgetown 59
2 Provy 65

2. Chloe S 19:23.5
4 Lucy Jenks
19:34.2
8 Melissa Riggins
Georgetown [JR] - 408
19:47.4
19 Almi Nerurkar
Georgetown [JR] - 406
20:10.8
26 Barrett Justema
Georgetown [SO] - 402
20:17.1

[RG]

Very strong result from the ladies, especially without Charlotte Tomkinson, our third best runner at Nuttycombe. Good to see Chloe Scrimgeour back and rounding into form; Luck Jenks and Melissa Riggins are showing real low stick running and Nerukar and Justema are providing very strong results as the 4th and 5th runners. Justema finishing three places ahead of her Providence counterpart effectively handed the team title to the Hoyas. Providence has a very good team; this was a very good response from the ladies, well done!

[RG]

I will defer to Nevada for all of the results, but the men looked really good with a 2nd place finish, only behind Villanova.

[Nevada Hoya]

The remainder of the women's finishes

34 Fiona Max
Georgetown [SR]
20:25.4
39 Olivia Morganti
Georgetown [SR]
20:33.7
45 Chloe Gonzalez
Georgetown [SR]
20:41.0
78 Charlotte Bell
UNA-Georgetown
21:01.4
164 Mary Grace Hegberg
Georgetown [FR]
22:03.3
176 Tori Ketzler
Georgetown [FR]
22:18.8
181 Sally Binder
Georgetown [SO]
203 Mia Pasha
Georgetown [SO]
22:50.2

22:24.0

[Nevada Hoya]

The women were no surprise finishing first in what is a preview for the Big East meet. Providence is a very good team with May winning the race over Chloe. This being Chloe's first race of the season was a very good result with only May beating Chloe in the last 800m.

But the men had a great result beating Princeton (on their home course) and UNC.

1 Villanova
70
2 4 9 24 31 (45) (61)
2 Georgetown
87
7 11 14 17 38 (46) (49)
3 Princeton
92
8 15 19 20 30 (37) (44)
4 North Carolina
106
1 6 29 34 36 (43) (56)

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7 Abel Teffra
Georgetown [SR]
23:04.0
11 Lucas Guerra
Georgetown [JR]
23:07.3
14 Luke Ondracek
Georgetown [SO]
23:12.9
17 James Dunne
Georgetown [SR]
23:17.3
39 Charlie North
Georgetown [SO]
23:42.9
47 Birhanu Harriman
Georgetown [SO]
23:48.4
50 Theo Woods
Georgetown [JR] - 102
23:51.5
87 Alazar Teffra
Georgetown [FR]
24:12.2
92 Jack McLoughlin
Georgetown [JR]
24:17.0
110 Derek Fearon
Georgetown [SR]
24:28.5
139 Quinn Parrish
UNAT-Georgetown
24:45.7

[RusskyHoya]

[birdman]

Oct 18, 2024 12:13:17 GMT -5 Nevada Hoya said:

The women were no surprise finishing first in what is a preview for the Big East meet. Providence is a very good team with May winning the race over Chloe. This being Chloe's first race of the season was a very good result with only May beating Chloe in the last 800m.

But the men had a great result beating Princeton (on their home course) and UNC.

1 Villanova
70
2 4 9 24 31 (45) (61)
2 Georgetown
87
7 11 14 17 38 (46) (49)
3 Princeton
92
8 15 19 20 30 (37) (44)
4 North Carolina
106
1 6 29 34 36 (43) (56)

This is an awesome result! Even though Cuse didn't show up (scared!) as others said, UNC is a likely auto-qualifier from the Southeast Region. And Princeton seems to have run most - if not all - their top guys, so it's encouraging for the Men to beat them here. Mid-Atlantic Region has a strong case for teams this year on the Men's side.

[Nevada Hoya]

Current print version of Track and Field News has mixed up the pictures of Chloe S. and a runner from NAU.

[birdman]

Meet summary from USTFCCCA www.ustfccca.org/2024/10/featured/weekend-recap-wisconsin-pre-nationals-ncaa-diii-meets-take-center-stage

Men’s 8k ‘A’ Race
Top-end depth led Villanova to a big win on Friday.

The 19th-ranked Wildcats, led by Liam Murphy’s runner-up finish, took the team title over three top-30 squads: No. 26 Georgetown was second with 87 points; No. 17 Princeton was third with 92 points; and No. 11 North Carolina, without Parker Wolfe, was fourth with 106 points. Villanova was the only team with three runners in the top-10.

Ethan Strand of North Carolina won the individual title in 22:34.4, beating Murphy by 2.4 seconds. That was Strand’s second victory of the season, having also won at the Virginia Invitational back in mid-September.

Women’s 6k ‘A’ Race
Kimberley May proved stronger down the homestretch.

As did the ninth-ranked Georgetown Hoyas.

May pulled away from Chloe Scrimgeour of Georgetown over the final 800 meters to win by 7.2 seconds, 19:16.3 to 19:23.5. This was the Providence standout’s second strong effort this season: May also finished fifth at the Nuttycombe Wisconsin Invitational in mid-September.

Scrimgeour and the Hoyas triumphed in the team race, beating No. 10 Providence, 59-65. Georgetown led by two points at the 5.2k split and saw Lucy Jenks and Melissa Riggins move up four combined spots in the top-10 from that juncture to the finish to propel them to victory.

[Nevada Hoya]

Oct 18, 2024 23:52:33 GMT -5 RusskyHoya said:

Two takeaways from Chloe in this video:

No 5th year
Has an NIL with Brooks

[Nevada Hoya]

Regional rankings this week

The women remain 1st in the Mid-Atlantic Region
The men move up to 2nd ahead of Princeton.

[RusskyHoya]

[Nevada Hoya]

National polls

Men
21. Georgetown up 5 places

Women
9. Georgetown even

Curious rankings: West Virginia was 28th in the last national rankings, now they are 4th, even though they are second in the regional rankings after Georgetown.