Full USTFCCCA National Coaches Poll
Mideast Regional Rankings

HAVERFORD, Pa. - The Haverford College men's cross country team will enter the Centennial Conference championships as the No. 23 team in Division III as the final regular season release of the USTFCCCA Division III National Coaches Poll was unveiled on Wednesday afternoon.

The top five teams in the nation include a pair of Mideast Regional competitors as Carnegie Mellon is ranked No. 4 while Johns Hopkins is up three spots to No. 5 in the nation this week. North Central (Ill.) returns to sole possession of the top spot overall, ahead of No. 2 Williams and No. 3 Pomona-Pitzer.  Haverford jumps up a pair of spots, leapfrogging conference foe Dickinson after a head-to-head victory over the Red Devils at last weekend's Rowan Inter-Regional Border Battle. Dickinson falls to No. 31 in the national landscape.

The Fords are also ranked third in the Mideast Regional rankings, ahead of Dickinson, Elizabethtown, York (Pa.), Widener, Stevenson, Swarthmore, and Moravian. 

Last week, The Fords were topped only by three top-10 teams nationally, but defeated then-No. 22 Dickinson and No. 32 NYU during a strong team showing at the Rowan-hosted meet. Capped at 10 entrants in the championship race, the Fords saw eight of those runners crack the 26-minute mark as Haverford's first through eighth finishers were separated by a spread of just over 30 seconds. Max Brelig led the Fords to the finish line as he placed 25th overall in the championship field which featured 256 total competitors.

Men's cross country will next be in action as the Fords host the Haverford Invitational this Friday, October 25. The men's race will be a 5 p.m. start on the Alumni Cross Country Course. The 2019 Centennial Conference Championship race is now just two weeks away. That meet will be hosted by Gettysburg on Saturday, November 2.