Quinn, Daly Earn Student-Athlete of the Week Awards
MAAC Sports
Siobhan Quinn
Cross Country | So. | Rochester, N.Y.
Canisius sophomore Siobhan Quinn posted a time of 21:19.30 to finish first and win the 2016 MAAC Women’s Cross Country Championships individual crown on October 29. Quinn became the first Canisius female runner to win the MAAC’s Championship race since Allison Carr in 1997, and she also earned the distinction of being the first non-Iona female to win the league’s individual championship since 2005.
Quinn’s time of 21:19.30 is the fourth-best time in MAAC history at the Disney Wide World of Sports Complex, which has hosted the league’s championship event four times since 2000. Quinn’s top-finish also helped the Golden Griffins place fourth as a team, the program’s best finish in the MAAC Cross Country Championship since 2010 when the Blue and Gold finished second.
Quinn has placed first at the Little Three Championship and the Canisius Alumni Classic in 2016, while breaking a school record from the Paul Short Invitational with a time of 20:58 in the 6k event. The bioinformatics major currently posses a 3.32 cumulative GPA.
Sam Daly
Cross Country | Sr. | Bedford, N.H.
Sam Daly became the first Fairfield men’s cross country runner to crack the top 10 at the MAAC Championship in 20 years, crossing the line with a 10th-place time of 25:19.13. Daly, who has been the team’s top finisher at each of the last three MAAC Championships, joins Ian McNeill as the only Stags to rank among the top 10 finishers at the conference meet.
In addition to All-MAAC laurels for his performance on the course at Disney’s Wide World of Sports, Daly was one of six Stags to receive MAAC All-Academic honors this fall. The senior co-captain of the Stags is a marketing major in Fairfield’s Charles F. Dolan School of Business.