Posted: Sep 01, 2023

Cross Country Begins 2023 Season at Adelphi Invitational

When and Where:

September 1, 2023 – Bethpage State Park (Bethpage, NY)

The St. Joseph's University, New York (L.I.) women's and men's cross country teams opened the 2023 season with a pair of seventh-place finishes at the Adelphi Invitational.

Top performers

Freshman Ryan Steinberg paced the men's team and finished 40th in the 8k race with a time of 28:32.20
Sophomore Ethan Humin (29:24.70) took 53rd place and graduate student Patrick Wuss (29:32.00) finished in 55th
The women's top performer was junior Gianna Dickson, who placed 22nd overall with a 5k time of 20:49.10 with senior Marissa Degni just behind her at 21:35.40 to finish 31st
Junior Emily Medina (27:00.70) and junior Joy Witzke (27:04.60) rounded out the women's top finishers in 47th and 48th places, respectively

How it happened

The men collected 230 points and trailed sixth-place USMMA by 81 points
The women's team's score of 204 points was just 21 points off of 6th place finisher Queens College (DII)

Notes

The Golden Eagles were the second-best NCAA Division III teams in the women's race where the men's were third.
East Stroudsburg's women (34 points) and Kutztown's men (34 points) were the winners on the day