EWING, NJ - The State University of New York at New Paltz cross country team(s) were in action this morning at the New Jersey Athletic Conference Championships. The men ran an 8k and women a 6k at Green Lane Fields next to The College of New Jersey's campus. The men came in fifth out of eight teams in the championship race. The women finished sixth out of eight teams in their championship race.

Luca Maneri led the men's team with a second-place finish in a time of 25:01.1 on the 8k course. Maneri earned first team all-conference honors by virtue of his second-place finish. Maneri's time today now sits second on the program's all-time performance list for the 8k. Corbin Smith finished twenty-fifth with a personal best time of 26:37.6. Mike Harbord and Anthony Willis followed in forty-fourth and forty-seventh place(s) and time(s) of 27:27.0 and 27:35.0, respectively. Harbord's time earned him a new personal best in the 8k. Evan Miller rounded out the Hawks' scoring five in one forty-ninth place with a time of 27:38.8. Langston Comer and Aiden Hesseltine finished as the Hawks' displacers in fifty-third and sixty-third place(s) with times of 27:45.5 and 28:27.8, respectively. Comer's time was good for a new personal best in the 8k.
 

Orquidea Briceno finished tenth overall to lead the Hawks in a time of 23:08.1 on the 6k course. Briceno earned second team all-conference honors for her tenth-place finish. This is Briceno's third consecutive year earning all-conference every season since becoming a Hawk in 2024. Alexandra Swink finished next for the Hawks in forty-third place with a time of 25:01.9. Juliana Vanorden finished next in sixty-third place with a time of 26:47.3. Adelyn Ameigh-Coggen finished in sixty-seventh place with a new personal best time of 26:55.1. Brooke Rosenberg finished in sixty-eighth place with a time of 27:01.1 to close out the scoring five for the Hawks. Olivia Kruppo and Jaelyn Gort finished as the Hawks displacers in seventieth and seventy-fifth place(s) with times of 27:32.2 and 28:09.5 respectively. Gort's time today earned her a new personal best.

Today's NJAC Championship meet was the Hawks first since joining the conference this fall. The cross country team(s) will be off next weekend before returning to action on Saturday, November 14 for the NCAA Mideast Regional Championships hosted by Trinity College at Wickham Park in Manchester, CT.

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