Maine’s Kirby Davis (Falmouth, Maine/Falmouth) and Leonora Joy (Auckland,New Zealand/Auckland University of Technology) have been named the America East men's and women’s Cross Country Performers of the Week, respectively. The awards were announced Tuesday (October 4).(Week 4 recap)
Davis Was Maine’s top finisher in the 14th Annual Murray Keating Invitational, taking 18th place. His time of 24:38.40 was the fastest by a Maine runner this season. In the meet, national power Stanford had seven of the top ten finishers, with Dartmouth taking the other three top ten times. As a team, Maine placed fifth overall, behind Stanford, Dartmouth, Iowa and Boston College. Maine defeated America East rival New Hampshire in the meet.
Joy finished third overall to lead Stony Brook at the 32nd Annual Paul Short Invitational on Saturday. The senior crossed third in 20:35.8 over the 6K distance to help lead the Seawolves to a ninth place team finish at the nationally renowned race that featured four teams ranked in the top 25 in the country and six others ranked within their own region.