There was something old and something new at the 2005 America East Cross Country Championship as the Boston University women won its 14th league title and the UMBC men won its first conference crown Saturday afternoon on the Binghamton University Course in Vestal, N.Y.
Men's Results
Women's Results
Behind Marisa Ryan's second-place finish, Boston University won its second-straight championship. The Terriers out-paced second-place Stony Brook, despite the Seawolves' Leonora Joy earning individual champion honors with a time of 18:04, 25 seconds ahead of Ryan.
Boston U. finished with 40 points to outdistance Stony Brook (56), New Hampshire (89) and host Binghamton (103). Vermont finished fifth (137), followed by Albany (142), Maine (153), UMBC (192) and Hartford (264).
The Boston University women continued their dominance of the America East Championship as the Terriers earned their 14th league title, including nine of the last 10. Of the 17 conference championships, Boston University’s worst finish in the event is fourth (2003).
Stony Brook’s Joy became the third Seawolf in four years to garner the championship’s top individual finish. Jackie Nunez (2003) and Jenny Payne (2002) are the other individual champions for Stony Brook, which also finished second in the championship for the third time in the past four tries.
Despite being picked to finish fifth in the preseason coaches’ poll, the UMBC men’s cross country team took home its first men’s title. The Retrievers scored 52 points to out-pace preseason favorite New Hampshire (62) and Maine (71), which was led by individual champion Kirby Davis (25:38).
Boston University scored 91 points to finish fourth, followed by Albany (103), Vermont (165), Stony Brook (180), Binghamton (194) and Hartford (280).
Coaching Staff of the Year honors were awarded to the Stony Brook women and the UMBC men. The Seawolves, led by Andy Ronan, and the Retrievers, guided by Murray Davis, are both are first-time recipient’s of the honor, which is voted on by the league’s coaches.
The women’s all-conference team, which is made up of the top-10 finishers in the championship event, consists of Binghamton’s Katie Radzik (third) and Stacy Kramer (seventh), Boston University’s Ryan (second), Abbey Sadowski (fourth) and Christine Laakso (eighth), Maine’s Heather Jovanelli (10th), New Hampshire’s Catherine Parker (fifth) and Stony Brook’s Joy (first), Dana Hastie (sixth) and Sarah Herbert (ninth).
The men’s all-conference squad features Albany’s Ricardo Estremara (second) and Robbie Freeman (seventh), Boston University’s Patrick Hoye (ninth), Maine’s Davis (first) and Joshua Trevino (sixth), UMBC’s Izudin Mehmedovic (fourth) and J.J. Wetzel (eighth), New Hampshire’s Matthew Russell (fifth) and Robert Edgerton (10th) and Stony Brook’s Shaun Krawitz (third).