MAAC Teams Perform at NCAA Cross Country Regional Races

11/15/2019 5:15:00 PM

EDISON, N.J. (Nov. 15, 2019) – 10 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) teams competed in the NCAA Cross Country Regional Championships today at the Mid-Atlantic Regional in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and the Northeast Regional in Buffalo, New York.

At the 2019 NCAA DI Northeast Region Cross Country Championships, Iona College had a strong performance with two individuals, John Millar with a seventh-place finish with a time of 29:02.0 in the men’s 10k and Egle Morenaite with a fifth-place finish with a time of 19:34.2 in the women’s 6k, securing a spot in the NCAA Division I Cross Country Championship on Nov. 23 at the LaVern Gibson Championship Cross Country Course in Terre Haute, Indiana.

On the men’s side, Iona led the MAAC with a third-place finish with a team score of 96. Marist College finished 17^th with a team score of 441. Siena College finished 25^th with a score of 662, Canisius College finished 27^th with a score of 723, Quinnipiac University finished 30^th with a score of 894, Fairfield University finished 34^th with a score of 987, and Niagara University finished 37^th with a score of 1167.

On the women’s side, Iona College finished seventh with a team score of 233. Marist College finished 12^th with a score of 338, Quinnipiac University finished 21^st with a score of 591, Siena College placed 25^th with a score of 639, Fairfield University placed 33^rd with a score of 935, Niagara University finished 35^th with a score of 986, and Canisius College finished 36^th with a score of 1045.

Full results from the 2019 NCAA DI Northeast Region Cross Country Championships can be found here.

At the 2019 NCAA DI Mid-Atlantic Region Cross Country Championships, Monmouth University and Rider University had a close battle resulting in an adjacent finish on the women’s side and a tied score in the men’s race.

Monmouth finished 20^th in the women’s 6k race with a team score of 585. Rider followed shortly with a 21^st finish with a team score of 588.

Both schools finished with a team score of 490, but Monmouth prevailed in the tiebreaker with four of its athletes outscoring the Broncs’ second-to-fifth man with an average 10k time of 32:40. Rider averaged a 10k time of 32:46.

Full results from the 2019 NCAA DI Mid-Atlantic Region Cross Country Championships can be found here.

To qualify for the 2019 NCAA DI Cross Country Championships, the follow requirements must be met:

31 teams (made up of 5-7 participants) will make the field
18 will automatically qualify by finishing as one of the top-two teams in any of the nine regional races
13 will receive at-large bids
38 individuals per gender will make the field
36 will automatically qualify by being one of the top four regional finishers not on an advancing team
2 individuals will receive at-large bids

The 2019 NCAA DI Cross Country Championships will take place

About the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference:
With 11 institutions strongly bound by the sound principles of quality and integrity in academics and excellence in athletics, the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) is in its 39th year of competition during the 2019-20 academic year. Current Conference members include: Canisius College, Fairfield University, Iona College, Manhattan College, Marist College, Monmouth University, Niagara University, Quinnipiac University, Rider University, Saint Peter's University, and Siena College.