NCAA DIII Men's and Women's cross country championships qualifiers
INDIANAPOLIS---The NCAA Division III Men’s and Women’s Track and Field and Cross Country Committee announced today the team and individual qualifiers for the 2015 NCAA Division III Men’s and Women’s Cross Country Championships.
In order to be eligible to participate in the championships, teams and individuals must qualify in their respective NCAA regions.
Thirty-two teams were selected to participate in each championship. The top two, seven- person teams automatically qualified from each of the eight regions, for a total of 16 teams. Sixteen additional teams were selected at-large.
Fifty-six individuals, the first seven student-athletes from each region who are not a part of a qualifying team, were selected to participate in each championship.
The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh is hosting the championships, November 21, at Lake Breeze Golf Club in Winneconne, Wisconsin. The women’s race will begin at Noon Eastern time followed by the men’s race at 1:30 p.m. Eastern time.
In 2014, North Central (Illinois) won the men’s team championship, marking its 16th national title. They finished with 130 points, defeating defending champion St. Olaf, which finished with 143 points.
On the women’s side, Johns Hopkins defeated MIT to win its third consecutive national championship. Johns Hopkins totaled 87 points to MIT’s 112.
Individual honors went to Amy Regan of Stevens Institute of Technology, who won the individual title, finishing almost seven seconds ahead of Washington U. in St. Louis’ Lucy Cheadle. In the men’s championship, individual honors went to Grant Wintheiser of St. Olaf. Wintheiser finished six seconds ahead of Colin Cotton of Williams.
The following teams and individuals were selected to the championships:
Men's Automatic Qualifying Teams
Allegheny
Amherst
Central (Iowa)
Christopher Newport
Claremont-Mudd-Scripps
Elizabethtown
Emory
Haverford
North Central (Ill.)
Pomona-Pitzer
St. Lawrence
St. Olaf
SUNY Geneseo
Wabash
Williams
Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Men's At-large Teams
Augustana (Ill.)
Calvin
Carnegie Mellon
Chicago
Hamilton
Loras
Middlebury
MIT
Tufts
Wartburg
Washington U. in St. Louis
Wesleyan (Conn.)
Willamette
Wisconsin-La Crosse
Wisconsin-Oshkosh
Wisconsin-Platteville
Women's Automatic Qualifying Teams
Calvin
Carleton
Claremont-Mudd-Scripps
Dickinson
Emory
Hope
Johns Hopkins
Rhodes
St. Thomas (Minn.)
SUNY Geneseo
SUNY Oneonta
Tufts
Washington U. in St. Louis
Willamette
Williams
Wisconsin-Osh Kosh
Women's At large Teams
Allegheny
Elizabethtown
Chicago
Haverford
Keene State
Middlebury
MIT
Rensselaer
RIT
Rochester (N.Y.)
St. Lawrence
St. Olaf
Wellesley
Whitworth
Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Wisconsin-La Crosse
Men's Individual Automatic Qualifiers
Atlantic Region
Benjamin Fazio, Rensselaer
Mitch Ryan, Cortland State
Sawyer Hitchcock, Ithaca
Collin Mulcahy, Fredonia
Kyle Collins, Fredonia
Greg Arabagian, Stevens Institute of Technology
Andrew Tedeschi, TCNJ
Central Region
Charles Corbett, Wisconsin-Superior
Hart Horner, Carleton
Matt Berens, Bethel (Minn.)
Thomas Feichtinger, St. John's (Minn.)
Tyler Broadwell, Luther
Jonah Barry, Carleton
Isaac Jensen, Luther
Great Lakes Region
Geno Arthur, Oberlin
Alex Wilson, Mount Union
John Sotos, Ohio Wesleyan
Sam Merriman, Case Western Reserve
Zachary Geiger, Ohio Wesleyan
Ian Kellogg, Otterbein
Paul Christian, DePauw
Mideast Region
Jaryd Flank, Muhlenberg
Ernie Pitone, Widener
Daniel Christiansen, Grove City
Ryan Schwartz, Johns Hopkins
Will McDermott, Widener
John Crowe, Susquehanna
Jared Schatz, Messiah
Midwest Region
Brett Harms, Wisc.-Whitewater
Alex Holle, Wheaton (Ill.)
Dane Tyler, Wisc.-Stevens Point
Austin Wright, Milwaukee School of Engineering
Tony Cass, Wisc.-Stout
Alexander Gonzales, Wisc.-Stevens Point
Julian Manley, Wisc.-River Falls
New England Region
Allen Sumrall, Bates
Patrick Hoagland, Trinity (Conn.)
Silas Eastman, Colby
Hayden Patterson, Keene State
Bridger Tomlin, Bowdoin
Damon Kilgore, Gordon
Austin Scott, WPI
South/Southeast Region
Harrison Toney, Roanoke
Victor Pataky, Centre
Alec Thibodeaux, Eastern Mennonite
Taylor Piske, Trinity (Tx.)
Oliver Langselius, Trinity (Tx.)
Nathan Riggs, Centre
Spencer Fields, Rhodes
West Region
Tyler Shipley, Puget Sound
Brad Hodkinson, Pac Lutheran
Geremia Lizier-Zmudzinski, Puget Sound
Chris Reid, Chapman
Christopher MacMurray, Whitworth
Aditya Bhagavathi, Caltech
Tommy Warfel, Occidental
Women's Individual Automatic Qualifiers
Atlantic Region
Taryn Cordani, Ithaca
Laura Morrison, Fredonia
Denise Ibarra, Ithaca
Michelle Fish, Hamilton
Mary Visca, Stevens Institute of Technology
Kailyn Balzano, Cortland State
Lily Corsaro, New York University
Central Region
Abrah Masterson, Cornell College
Sanjuanita Martinez, Cornell College
Kimber Meyer, Macalester
Casey Hovland, St. Scholastica
Annika Halverson, Bethel (Minn.)
Lucy Conroy, Coe
Lauren Mordini, Luther
Great Lakes Region
Kelsey Aamoth, Case Western
Claire Lamb, Otterbein
Jessica Shaw, Albion
Sarah Fowler, Ohio Wesleyan
Mariah Jordan, Manchester
Emily Richards, Ohio Northern
Claudia Monnett, DePauw
Mideast Region
Veronica Wheeler, DeSales
Kelsey Patrick, Lebanon Valley
Bianca Bolton, Misericordia
Marissa Durako, King's (Penn.)
Jamie Pacilio, Muhlenberg
Julie Gerber, Waynesburg
Emma Doughman, Marywood
Midwest Region
Sarah Bradley, Millikin
Kathleen Thorn, Wisc.-Stout
Megan Constanzo, North Central (Ill.)
Erin Artz, St. Norbert
Erin McCarey, Illinois Wesleyan
Jackie Schane, Aurora
Natasha Zanoya, Edgewood
New England Region
Abby Shafer, New England College
Ashley Curran, Connecticut College
Jess Cardin, Westfield State
Emily Bryson, Brandeis
Alanna McDonough, Colby
Savanna Gornisiewicz, Amherst
Lizzie Lacy, Amherst
South/Southeast Region
Hannah Chappell-Dick, Eastern Mennonite
Serena Gale-Butto, Centre
Margaret Seybold, Washington and Lee
Samantha Yates, Washington and Lee
Emma MacEachern, Trinity (Tx.)
Katherine Lehman, Eastern Mennonite
Lydia Cromwell, Christopher Newport
West Region
Maya Weigel, Pomona-Pitzer
Lauren Roberts, Redlands
Stephanie Spencer, Pacific (Ore.)
Allysa Warling, Colorado College
Leah Wessler, Colorado College
Kaelia Neal, Linfield
Katie Sandfort, Colorado College