MANCHESTER, N.H. – Saint Anselm College is set to host the Northeast-10 Conference Cross Country Championship this Sunday, Oct. 24. The start and finish lines are located at the South Athletic Fields on campus.
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The women's race will begin at 11 a.m. with the men's race to follow at 12:15 p.m. Live Results, courtesy of Millennium Running, will be provided for fans unable to attend the races in person on Sunday.
Stonehill, picked first in the Pre-Championship Coaches' Poll, has won a league-record 18 conference women's championships, including 11 in a row entering Sunday's race. American International is second with Southern New Hampshire rounding out the top three places in the poll.
American International, who finds itself atop the Pre-Championship Coaches' Poll for the men, has won four of the previous six team championships and has claimed 11 consecutive individual titles dating back to the 2009 race. AIC is followed by Southern Connecticut State and Stonehill on the men's poll.
The Hawks men's cross country program was projected to finish ninth out of 14 teams with the women tying Assumption for fourth out of 14 teams. The Saint Anselm women are ranked third in the East Region, according to the USTFCCCA, and the men (seventh) are regionally ranked for the first time since 2011 – both are the highest in-season rankings in team history.
Saint Anselm has hosted the NE10 Championship on four prior occasions, first in 1984 and most recently in 1994, 2002 and 2013. The Hawks remain in search of their first-ever NE10 team championship while David Brosnan '94 remains the only individual winner from Saint Anselm.
The Hawks men's program placed 12th out of 14 teams in 2017, but has finished as high as ninth in the 2019 season. The women's squad at Saint Anselm was ninth in 2017, but captured third place in the 2019 race, the highest finish for the Hawks since the 2002 season.
Saint Anselm will field both men's and women's teams at the NCAA Division II East Region Championship race on Saturday, Nov. 6 in Rochester, N.Y.
