Nine CAA Runners Earn All-Region Honors Highlighted by Northeastern Duo at NCAA Regional Championships
Hunter Peters
RICHMOND, Va. (Nov. 10, 2023) – Nine CAA Cross Country runners earned All-Region honors, highlighted by Northeastern senior
Abigail Hassman and junior Benjamin Godish, who are automatic individual qualifiers for the NCAA Cross Country Champions based on their performances on Friday morning.
Hassman was the top CAA finisher throughout the regional competitions, running to fourth-place honors in the Northeast Region. The senior covered the course at Van Cortlandt Park in a personal-best and program record 19:57.5. Meanwhile, Godish earned a top-10 finish, placing seventh in the men’s 10K behind a personal-best 29:51.7. In addition, their teammates Patrick Cullen and Azza Borovicka-Swanson ran to All-Region honors. Cullen finished 24th (30:12.4), and Borovicka-Swanson was 25th (20:30.0) in their respective races.
Also, earning All-Region honors in the Northeast were Stony Brook junior Grace Weigele and senior Carlos Santos. Weigle ran to a 10th-place finish with a PR of 20:06.5, while Santos finished 19th in a personal-best 30:07.1.
In the Southeast Region, Elon junior Jette Beerman and William & Mary sophomore Sofia Istnick finished consecutively in 18th and 19th to collect All-Region accolades. Both ran to lifetime best marks at Milliken Research Park, with the duo crossing in 20:18.5
The final region featuring an All-Region performer from the CAA was the Mid-Atlantic, where Monmouth sophomore Declan McDonnell placed 17th. McDonnell posted a PR at Goodman Campus XC Course, running 29:59.9.
In the team competitions, the Northeastern men finished eighth, CAA Champion Stony Brook was ninth, and Hofstra was 18th in the Northeastern Region. Abraham Longosiwa paced the Pride with a 26th-place finish (30:15.0). On the women’s side, the Huskies were eighth, the Seawolves were 11th, and Hofstra was 35th.
CAA Champion Elon matched the best team finish in the conference, with the women placing eighth in the Southeast, while W&M was 15th and Charleston was 21st. Senior Rhian Purves paced the Cougars, finishing 88th (21:33.1), and sophomore Summer Herbertson ran as an individual for UNCW (134th/22:24.0). For the men, William & Mary finished 13th, Elon was 24th, and Charleston placed 32nd. W&M freshman Hayes Trapp was the top finisher for the CAA in the race (47th/30:16.7).
In the Mid-Atlantic, the Monmouth men and women finished 13th in the team standings, and Delaware finished 19th. Emily Simko, freshman from Monmouth, was the top finisher in the women’s 6K (40th/20:59.2).
The NCAA Division I Men's and Women's Track and Field and Cross Country Committee will announce the automatic teams, at-large teams and individual men and women qualifiers to the 2023 championships on Saturday, Nov. 11, at 5 p.m. EST on NCAA.com.
The top two team finishers from each regional will receive automatic qualification to the 2023 NCAA Cross Country Championships, and the NCAA DI Cross Country Subcommittee will then choose 13 at-large teams to fill out the 31-team field.
Individually, the first four finishers who do not belong to an automatic
qualifier or an at-large team automatically advance to the championships. All four finishers have to finish in the top 25 within their region. Altogether 36 individuals automatically qualify, and two are chosen at-large, making 38 the total. The two at-large selections are the highest-placing individuals at a regional that were not automatic qualifiers.
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