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NOVEMBER 2013
GNAC Cross Country CHAMPIONS!!! BOTH, the Emmanuel Men’s & Women’s Cross Country Teams, won Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) Championships on Sunday, November 2 on the campus of Saint Joseph’s College in Standish, Maine
The pair of championships mark Emmanuel’s first-ever GNAC Cross Country team titles. The Saints’ victory in the men’s meet also marks Emmanuel’s first-ever men’s team championship in any sport. Further, this is the first time Emmanuel has EVER won multiple championships in a single season. Featuring four of the top 10 individual finishers in the women’s 5k, the Saints cruised to the crown with 48 team points. Emmanuel finished securely ahead of the host Saint Joseph’s College Monks (66 points), which finished as the team runner-up, despite placing the top three individual participants. Overall, 12 teams and 114 runners competed in the women’s championship. Simmons College placed third with 69 points, Norwich University tallied 104 points and finished fourth and Johnson & Wales University rounded out the top five competing institutions with 108 points on the afternoon. Saint Joseph’s junior Amber Dostie (Standish, Maine) won the conference race for the third-consecutive season after touring the course in 20:32
and was closely followed by a pair of teammates. Monks’ sophomore Lauren Rabideau (Ballston Spa, N.Y.), the 2012 GNAC Rookie of the Year, was six seconds off the pace and was the runner-up and St. Joe’s junior Heather Eaton (Lincolnville, Maine) placed third with a 20:53 effort. Closing out the top five were Johnson & Wales junior Joanne Mumbey (Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.), who was fourth with a 21:04 time, and Norwich freshman Chapel Guarnieri (Pepperell, Mass.), who notched a fifth-place finish with a 21:10 performance. Four of the following five runners hailed from Emmanuel, as senior Molly Metivier (Keene, N.H.) was sixth, senior Meaghan Mauer (South Hadley, Mass.) finished seventh, junior Chloe Egan (Burlington, Vt.) placed eighth and sophomore Janelle Winship (Prospect, Maine) raced to a 10th-place finish. The fifth scoring runner for the Saints was freshman Olivia Wakefield (Easton, Mass.), who placed 17 overall with her personal best time of 22:16. Guarnieri, who had already CONTINUED ON PAGE 4...
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Pictured above are members from the Men’s & Women’s Cross Country teams when it was announced that both squads had captured the 2013 GNAC Cross Country Championship.
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By the Numbers – The 2013 Emmanuel College men’s and women’s Cross Country squad landed a total of six runners on the Great Northeast Athletic Conference AllConference team, the most ever in a single-season in the program’s history. The previous high had been four runners.
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