Results

Video Highlights and Interview with Eric Jenkins (CAASports.com)

Photos from the event (courtesy of CAA / Donna Kennedy)

2011 Men's Performance List (PDF)

Sophomore sensation Eric Jenkins ran away with history on Saturday morning as the Portsmouth, N.H. native won the individual title at the 2011 CAA Cross Country Championship at the Nash Farm Battlefield Park in Hampton, Ga. with ease and helped the Huskies tie a program best third-place finish. The Huskies captured third place at last year's conference event.

Jenkins was named the Most Outstanding Performer of the Meet after topping the runner-up, William & Mary's Zach Gates, by 19 seconds.

William & Mary emerged with its 12th-consecutive CAA team title, finishing with five top-10 performances. The Tribe's aggregate of 27 points cleared the runner-up, George Mason, by 45 points (lowest score wins). The Huskies totaled 70 points for their third-place showing.

Jenkins is the first Northeastern student-athlete in program history to win the individual CAA conference crown. The second-year sensation dusted the 58-man field and clocked in the winning time of 24:46, marking his best time of the season by seven seconds.

“Our team ran very well today,” NU distance coach Renny Waldron said. “Eric has turned the corner in his training and his legs have come back to him, looking very relaxed in his victory today.

“(Sophomore) Brian Doyle had a fantastic race as well. Overall, we are very happy with our performance today, but we know we can ran even better in two weeks at the NCAA Regionals.”

Doyle stood atop the podium after he completed his 8K run in 25:16 for third place. The East Greenwich, R.I. native outhustled William & Mary's Tom Burke by one second (25:16) to make the top three.

Senior Nick Ryan was awarded 19th place after a jaunt of 26:10. The NU cluster of rookie Stephen Sollowin, senior Teddy Vrountas and sophomore John Jantz followed each other to the finish line. Sollowin cleared 26:41 for 26th place in his first conference championship while Vrountas' final CAA meet concluded in 27th after a time of 26:46. Jantz closed out the trio's efforts with a 28th-place performance of 26:48.

Newcomer Zachary Fraielli and veteran Sebastian Putzeys closed out with respective 37th and 38th-place marks of 27:11 and 27:12. Senior Joe Siravo clocked in with a 40th-place pace of 27:13 in his final conference go-round while second-year harrier Michael MacKenzie registered a 43rd-place time of 27:25 to conclude the Huskies' trial.

With Jenkins' and Doyle's podium performances, the sophomore pairing was named to the All-CAA team upon conclusion of Saturday's race.

Northeastern looks to parlay its successful run at the 2011 CAA XC Championship and channel it towards a strong performance at the 2011 NCAA Regional Championship on Saturday, Nov. 12 in Buffalo, N.Y.