Men's Cross Country At No. 15 In Latest USTFCCCA Poll

Posted: Sep 28, 2016

HAVERFORD, Pa. – The Haverford College men's cross country team sits at No. 15 in the USTFCCCA Poll, the coaches' organization announced on Wednesday afternoon. The Fords also held steady as the No. 2 squad in the regional rankings behind Carnegie Mellon.

SUNY Geneseo leaped North Central (Ill.) for the top spot in the national ranking, taking seven of the eight first place tallies. North Central was tabbed second, receving the other first place vote. Williams, UW-Eau Claire and Pomona-Pitzer round out the national top five for the second straight week. Haverford is the top Centennial Conference team nationally as Johns Hopkins is No. 18 and Dickinson checks in at No. 27.

Carnegie Mellon held onto its top rank in the Mideast regional poll. Haverford is second while Johns Hopkins is third. Dickinson and Widener round out the top five in the Mideast region.

Head coach Tom Donnelly's team will be back in action on Saturday, October 1 at 12:15 pm at the Paul Short Invitational, a highly competitive bellwether 8k race that sees teams from across all three NCAA divisions converging in the Lehigh Valley.

The meet, hosted by Lehigh University, will take place at the Murray H. Goodman Campus in Bethlehem, Pa. Haverford will compete against regional foes Johns Hopkins and Widener in the "Brown" race, which also features the squad that the Fords finished runner-up to at the Paul Short last year, Shippensburg. Division I squads Bucknell, Delaware and Princeton are among others slated to race alongside the Haverford harriers.