On Saturday, October 10, our boys’ and girls’ cross country teams had the honor of competing in the 54th annual Manhattan University Cross Country Invitational meet at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, New York. It is considered one of the largest single day cross country events in the nation. Over 8,000 runners from nearly 500 schools across New York and several other states participated in this race.

Runners who placed in the top 75 of each race received a medal. Pine Bush finished with a total of 26 individual medal winners. Here are the final results from each race:

Boys’ Modified Race: Finished 10th out of 14 teams (167 total runners)
Medalists: Ryan Cosh and Landon Leonard.

Girls’ Modified Race: Finished 2nd out of 10 teams (141 total runners)
Medalists: Emily Angel, Abigail Atwell, Grayce Ferry, Tess Hoehmann, Hailey Jameson, Shea Hundley, and Juliana Perez. 

Boys’ Freshman Race: Finished 4th out of 13 teams (155 total runners)
Medalists: Spencer Angel, Casey Carbone, Israel Cecchini, Noah Doyle, Thomas Monahan, and Edmund Trad.

Girls’ Freshman Race: Finished 8th out of 11 teams (119 total runners)
Medalists: Harleigh Gaucher, Sara Hoover, Destiny Vasquez, and Harley Yannone.

Boys’ Sophomore Race: Finished 15th out of 18 teams (197 total runners)
Medalists: Azariah Diaz and Gabriel Walsh.

Girls’ Sophomore Race: No placement; need at least 5 runners to field a team (154 total runners)
Medalists: April Owuor, Allison Potter, and Catherine Sadaghiani.

Boys’ Varsity Race: Finished 25th out of 32 teams (211 total runners)
Medalist: Noah Freestone.

Girls’ Varsity Race: No placement; need at least 5 runners to field a team (226 total runners)
Medalist: Julianne Gabriele.

Fantastic job by our boys’ and girls’ cross country runners and congratulations to our medal winners!