BOSTON — The Northeastern men's and women's cross country teams are hitting the road north to New Hampshire for the NCAA Northeast Regional Championships on Friday, Nov. 14 held at the Hopkinton Fairgrounds. The women will run the 6K at 11 a.m. while the men will compete in the 10K at 12 p.m. The Northeastern women will begin the race in box 35, while the men's team will start from box 3.
The top two teams at the meet and the top four individuals will qualify for the NCAA Championships at Gans Creek Cross Country Course in Columbia, Missouri on Saturday, Nov. 22. It will be streamed live on ESPNU with the women's race at 10:20 a.m. ET and the men's race at 11:10 a.m. ET.
THREE THINGS TO KNOW:
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ALL- (CAA) STAR HUSKIES – Four Huskies earned All-CAA Team honors. Freshman Dawson French led the Huskies at CAA Championships with a fourth-place finish (23:41.90) to earn All-CAA honors, followed closely by senior Patrick Cantlon in fifth (23:45.70) and sophomore Nico Boyle in seventh (23:47.10), with both also claiming All-CAA recognition for their podium-level performances. Junior Keira Gamily paced Northeastern with a seventh-place finish in 21:19.40, earning All-CAA honors as the lone Husky to crack the top 10 at the conference championships.
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NOTABLE IN THE NORTHEAST – The Northeast has 41 teams competing in each race. This year, going into the Northeast Regional competition on the men's side, Syracuse and Harvard hold the top two spots. In third is Iona, followed by Cornell and Yale. Northeastern enters the race ranked No.12. For the women, the top 5 ranked teams are Boston College, Syracuse, Providence, Yale and UConn.
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THIS TIME LAST YEAR – Graduate student Abigail Hassman led the Northeastern women to a sixth-place finish out of 39 teams at the NCAA Northeast Regional, crossing the line in 11th place with a time of 20:09.44 as the first CAA runner to finish. The men's team placed 17th among 38 competing squads with graduate student Godish narrowly missing a top-15 finish by just over a second, clocking 30:17.46 in the 10k. Overall, Providence claimed the women's team title while Syracuse captured the men's championship.
If they qualify, the Huskies will travel to Gans Creek Cross Country Course in Columbia, Missouri on Saturday, Nov. 22.
WOMEN: Dunbury, Gamily, Hagen, Lonergan, Melnik, Trejo, Trevor, Wickard
TEAMS: Central Connecticut, Bryant, Army West Point, Quinnipiac, Stony Brook, Boston University, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Boston College, UMass Amherst, UMass Lowell, Syracuse, Merrimack, Maine, Buffalo, Hofstra, New Hampshire, Providence, Dartmouth, Marist, Fairfield, LIU, Holy Cross, Vermont, Niagara, Fordham, Canisius, Manhattan, Colgate, Wagner, Columbia, Brown, Cornell, Yale, Northeastern, St. Bonaventure, Binghamton, Iona, Sacred Heart, Stonehill, and Harvard.
MEN: Blaisdell, Boyle, Cantlon, French, Gruczka, Rank, R.Sarney, Seagroatt
TEAMS: Bryant, St. Bonaventure, Northeastern, UMass Lowell, Colgate, Dartmouth, Sacred Heart, Rhode Island, LIU, Wagner, Buffalo, New Hampshire, Maine, Quinnipiac, Manhattan, Vermont, Binghamton, UMass Amherst, Hofstra, Harvard, Marist, Holy Cross, Columbia, Boston College, Army West Point, Stonehill, Iona, Siena, Yale, Central Connecticut, Brown, Stony Brook, Fordham, Niagara, Canisius, Boston University, Fairfield, Providence, Merrimack, Cornell, and Syracuse.
