Cross Country Back in Action in the Spider/Patriot Cross Country Classic

Saturday, February 20

Mechanicsville, Va. (Pole Green Park)

12 PM

University of Richmond

Spider/Patriot Cross Country Classic

Photo by: Spiders Athletics

Cross Country Back in Action in the Spider/Patriot Cross Country Classic

02/19/2021 | Cross Country

RICHMOND, Va. – After opening the season two weeks ago at Pole Green Park, the Spiders are back at the same location for their second race of the 2021 season. The Spider/Patriot Cross Country Classic, co-hosted with George Mason University, will feature several teams from within the state and as far north as Massachusetts.

11 teams will be competing this weekend, of those 11, four are competitors from within the Atlantic 10 Conference. Duquesne, George Mason, George Washington and Saint Joseph's men's and women's teams will be competing. On the women's side, the 20^th-ranked Georgetown team will be racing, along with Iona, who is receiving top 25 votes in the latest USTFCCCA weekly poll. UConn, UMass-Lowell and William & Mary round out the field for the women's 5k. The men's field will also feature Iona, currently ranked 14^th nationally, and UMass-Lowell, a team that is receiving national ranking votes. Temple and UConn of the American Athletic Conference rounds out the men's field for the five-mile race.

The Richmond men's team finished the first event of the year taking four of the top five times in the 8-kilometer race two weeks ago. Freshman Stuart Terrill (Crozet, Va.) earned Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Week honors after taking home the top time in the event, finishing his first collegiate race in 24:42.5. He was followed shortly after by Peter Borger (Malvern, Pa.), Noah Yuro (Howell, N.J.) and Noah Campbell (Montpelier, Va.), who finished second, third and fifth, respectively.

On the women's side, freshman Elizabeth Stockman (Rocky Hill, Conn.) earned A-10 Rookie of the Week honors herself after taking third in the 5-kilometer race at 17:35.7. Lily Snow (Glen Allen, Va.) added a seventh-place finish, with Manon Stephen (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Caroline Robelen (Glen Allen, Va.) and Tess Pisanelli (Ridgefield, Conn.) scoring for the Spiders. Kate Dickow (Lititz, Pa.) will be racing for the first time this year. During her freshman season in 2019, Dickow earned Atlantic 10 Rookie All-Conference honors and earned A-10 Rookie of the Week honors four separate times.

The racing gets started at noon at Pole Green. Fans can follow the live results courtesy of Blue Ridge Timing available here.

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