USTFCCCA National Poll
Regional Rankings

HAVERFORD, Pa. – The Haverford College men's cross country team maintained its No. 9 ranking in the US Track and Field Cross Country Coaches' Association national poll. Haverford is also the top team in the Mideast regional rankings.

Haverford's No. 9 national ranking is the team's highest since being placed No. 1 on November 12th, 2012. The Fords have made a steady ascent in 2015, improving from No. 23 in the preseason to its current position.

UW-Eau Claire received all eight first-place votes to remain as the No. 1 nationally. Amherst is No. 2, followed by North Central (Ill.), St. Olaf and Washington (Mo.) to round out of the top five. Johns Hopkins is the only other ranked Centennial Conference team at No. 18.

The Fords remained atop the Mideast regional while Carnegie Mellon fell to No. 2. Johns Hopkins, Elizabethtown, Dickinson fill out the rest of the top five in the rankings.

Head coach Tom Donnelly's team did not race last week. The week before, senior Charlie Marquardt won his fifth career cross country individual title at the Paul Short Run, crossing the finish line with a time of 24:56. In the event that had 354 finishers, he won by five seconds over Kieran Sutton of Shippensburg. The senior's stellar run led to him being selected as the Centennial Conference Runner of the Week for the fourth time in his cross country career.

The men's cross country team will take part in the Rowan Inter-Regional on Saturday (11 a.m.).