Swarthmore Competes at 2006 Centennial Championships
CARLISLE, Pa. - Garnet runners Jon Shoop '08, Erik Saka '09, Nyika Corbett '10, and Emma Stanley '09 earned All-Centennial honors as the Swarthmore cross country teams ran through wet conditions and strong winds at the 2006 Centennial Conference Championships Saturday morning.
The Swarthmore men finished in fourth position with 104 team points - the Garnet suffered tough luck when top runner Vernon Chaplin '07 came down with the flu. Defending champion Haverford took the team title with 20 points, followed by Muhlenberg (56) and Dickinson (102). Shoop (27:04) and Saka (27:04) completed the 8K course in 11th and 12th position to earn second team All-Centennial. Junior Ross Weller was close behind in 16th position (27:21), sophomore Dan Hodson ran 32nd with a time of 28:06, while Chaplin, heroically dragging himself into the race, finished 33rd in a time of 28:08.
The Swarthmore women totaled 130 points to finish fifth as a team, trailing champion Dickinson (26), Haverford (62), Johns Hopkins (114), and Gettysburg 9128). Corbett led the women's contingent with a sixth-place finish (23:35) to claim first-team All-Centennial honors while Stanley earned her second consecutive All-Conference nod with a 10th place finish (23:55). Freshman Erin Ronhovde (25:07) took 31st position despite an asthma attack, while Faith Pampel '09 (25:14) ran 34th and Kathy Feeney '09 (25:46) came in 49th.
The Swarthmore runners will direct their training towards the NCAA Division III Mid-East Regionals, scheduled for Nov. 11 in Waynesburg, Pa.