HAVERFORD, Pa. – Despite winning the Mideast Regional, the Haverford College men's cross country team remained No. 7 in the final US Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches' Association (USTFCCCA) national poll.

Haverford's No. 7 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.

The only teams in the poll were ones that qualified for the NCAA Championships. UW-Eau-Claire had six of the eight first-place votes to continue atop the poll. Williams and its two-first place votes were second while North Central (Ill.), Amherst and St. Olaf round out of the top five. The Fords are the only Centennial Conference team in the NCAA Championships.

Over the weekend, the team qualified for the NCAA Division III Championship with its first place finish at the Mideast Regional at Big Spring High School.

This will be Haverford's 23rd consecutive trip to the NCAA meet. The Fords have won 22 regional crowns, this one being the first since 2012. Head coach Tom Donnelly's squad had 67 team points, 26 fewer than Elizabethtown, who will receive the other automatic qualifier.

Senior Charlie Marquardt won his second consecutive individual title at the regional race with a time of 25:14.8, nine seconds in front of Muhlenberg's Jaryd Flank. The senior is on an incredible run, having won the last four races he's entered and six of the last eight events.