BETHLEHEM, Pa. – The Patriot League Women’s and Men’s Cross Country Championships will be held on Saturday, Oct. 28, at the Harry H. Lang Cross Country Course on the campus of Colgate University in Hamilton, N.Y. The Navy men’s and women’s teams are the defending League champions. A team win in the men’s race would bring Navy into a first-place tie with Army West Point with 11 League titles apiece.  
 
The Raiders will host the championships for the eighth time and the first since 2019 when the Army West Point men and Boston University women captured League titles, respectively. 
 
The women’s 6K championship race will kick off at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday. The men’s 8k race will follow at 11:30 a.m. All 10 Patriot League programs will compete in the championships, with team scoring determined by each squad’s top-five finishers. Live results for the 2023 Patriot League Cross Country Championship are available by visiting the Patriot League’s official website – www.PatriotLeague.org. 
 
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Patriot League Cross Country Major Awards and All-League Honors 
The Patriot League cross country major awards will be distributed following the race and will be determined by the individual finish of the competing student-athletes at the championship. The individual champion of both races will be named the Patriot League Runner of the Year for the men and women. The top-finishing freshman in both races earns Patriot League Rookie of the Year honors. The top-seven finishers in the men’s and women’s races make the All-Patriot League First Team, with the eighth through 14th-place runners making up the second team. The Patriot League’s Men’s and Women’s Coach of the Year will be voted on by the League’s head coaches at the conclusion of both races. Academic All-Patriot League and Scholar-Athlete of the Year awards will be voted upon by the League’s head coaches and announced the week following the race. 
 
Returning All-Patriot League Performers 
Defending champion Navy returns individual runner-up Sam Keeny, while Boston University returns seventh-place finisher Matt Mason from the first-team All-League group at the 2022 Patriot League Men’s Cross Country Championship. Five of the seven second-team honorees return, including American University’s Row Sullivan (8th). Boston University returns Foster Malleck (9th) and 2022 Patriot League Rookie of the Meet Freddy Collins (13th), each of whom helped the Terriers to a third-place team finish. Luke Lusskin (10th) and Isaac Morris (12th) return for Army West Point, as the Black Knights pursue League title number 12. 
 
A loaded women’s group returns in 2023, led by Navy senior Emily Boutin who claimed the Patriot League Women’s Cross Country Runner of the Year in 2022. Boutin’s teammates Eleanor Abraham (7th), Sophie Compton (9th) and Mia-Claire Kezal (11th) return looking for a third-straight Navy title in 2023. Army West Point finished as the second-place squad in 2022 and the group returns three first-teamers in Charlotte Richman (3rd), Georgia Jones (5th) and Joanna Halfhill (6th). 2022 individual women’s runner-up Daisy Liljegren is back alongside second-teamer Vera Sjoberg (14th) for the Boston University Terriers, while Keely Misutka (12th) returns for Bucknell.   

Patriot League Record Books 

• A top-14 finish for Boston University’s Matt Mason would make him a four-time All-Patriot League selection. Only nine other runners have accomplished this feat in League history, most recently Marshall Beatty of Army West Point (2019-2022).  

• Foster Malleck, Row Sullivan, and Sam Keeny would each join the three-time All-Patriot League list with a top-14 finish in Hamilton. That list currently has 37 members since the start of Patriot League Cross Country in 1990.  

• Sullivan can also join another prestigious list in 2023 with a selection to the Academic All-Patriot League Team. It would be Sullivan’s third selection to the team (2020 & 2022), making them just the eighth runner to accomplish the feat three times.  

• With a top-14 finish in 2023, Army West Point senior Georgia Jones will become just the seventh four-time All-Patriot League selection in women’s cross country history, and the first since Bucknell’s Stephanie Fulmer (2008-2011). Jones can also etch her name in the record books as the third-ever three-time academic All-Patriot League honoree this year if she is selected. 

• Navy’s Emily Boutin and Eleanor Abraham will each join the prestigious three-time All-Patriot League selection list with a top-14 finish in this event, joining 27 other top runners from Patriot League history.  

 
Patriot League Cross Country Championship History 
The Army West Point men’s cross country program has won a Patriot League-best 11 team championships, while Navy garnered title number 10 last season. American and Bucknell have each won six championships, with Lehigh winning their only championship in 2012.  

 
The Bucknell women’s program has a League-high 12-team titles, last claiming the championship in 2018. Defending champion Navy earned a sixth title last season after winning back-to-back League championships. Meanwhile, Army West Point (5), Boston University (4) and American (2) have each won multiple League Championships. Colgate, Lafayette and Lehigh each have one women’s team title. 

USTFCCCA Polls 

• The Navy men’s cross country team was ranked No. 3 in the US Track and Field and Cross Country Association (USTFCCCA) Mid-Atlantic Region when the polls were released on Oct. 16. Bucknell was No. 14 and American checked in at No. 15. In the Northeast Region, Boston University is ranked No. 6, with Army West Point checking in at No. 13. 

• The Navy men’s squad was also receiving votes nationally in the USTFCCCA coaches' poll on Oct. 17.   

• Bucknell’s women’s team is currently No. 9 in the USTFCCCA Mid-Atlantic Region Poll, while Navy is No. 11 and Lehigh is ranked No. 13. The Boston University Terriers are ranked No. 7 in the Northeast Region, with Army West Point placing No. 10 in the latest poll. 
   

ABOUT THE PATRIOT LEAGUE 
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