Centennial Conference Silver Anniversary Release
HAVERFORD, Pa. – The Centennial Conference is celebrating 25 years as one of the elite small college athletic conferences in the country with the announcement of its Silver Anniversary teams. With criteria selected by conference officials, the Silver Anniversary teams are designed to highlight the best of the best over the conference's first quarter-century.
For inclusion on a Silver Anniversary team, a student must have a degree from their institution and meet one of the following qualifications:
- Three-time or four-time first-team All-Centennial performer
- Two-time Centennial Conference Player of the Year
- First-team All-America AND two-time first-team All-Centennial performer
- Two-time All-America (first, second, or third team)
For individual sports such as swimming and track & field, the accomplishments must have occurred in the same event.
On Thursday, the Centennial Conference released the list of 44 men's indoor track & field performers who were named to the Silver Anniversary team. The Haverford College men's indoor track & field teams have won 17 Centennial Conference Championships (1994-1998, 2000-2009, 2011-2012) and have finished outside of the top two just once. With all of that success, the Fords had 30 representatives on Centennial Conference Silver Anniversary team.
The Conference was founded in 1981 as the Centennial Football Conference and began competition as an all-sports conference in the fall of 1993. The Conference crowns champions in 24 sports.
Haverford College Men's Indoor Track & Field Silver Anniversary Honorees (by graduation year)
Aaron Curry '94
- 1994 NCAA Division III National Champion 1,500 meters (also second-place in that event during 1993 when Haverford was a member of the MAC)
- Four-time Centennial Conference Champion in only year in Centennial, winning 800 meters, 4x400 relay, 4x800 relay, and distance medley relay)
Chip Loutrel '96
- Three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference 4x800 relay (1994, 1995, 1996)
Masilo Grant '97
- Four-time first-team All-Centennial Conference triple jump (1994, 1995, 1996, 1997)
Karl Paranya '97
- Five-time NCAA National Champion (800 meters in 1994 and 1995; 1,500 meters in 1995, 1996, 1997)
- Six-time All-American (also finished second in 800 meters in 1996)
- Two-time Centennial Conference Performer of the Year (1995, 1996)
- Three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference 1,500 meters (1994, 1995, 1996)
- Three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference 4x400 relay (1994, 1995, 1996)
- Two-time first-team All-Centennial Conference 800 meters (1995, 1996)
Wakengo Mahaniah '97
- Three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference 4x400 relay (1994, 1995, 1997)
Chris Coulston '98
- Three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference 4x400 relay (1995, 1997, 1998)
Ian Fraser '98
- 1998 Centennial Conference Performer of the Meet
- Three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference 4x800 relay (1995, 1996, 1997)
Derek Sykora '98
- Three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference 200 meters (1995, 1997, 1998)
- Three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference 4x200/225 yard relay (1995, 1997, 1998)
J.B. Haglund '02
- 2002 distance medley relay national champion
- Five-time All-American (first in 2002 DMR; fourth in 2001 DMR and 2002 5,000 meters; fifth in 2000 DMR; sixth in 2001 1,500 meters)
- Two-time first-team All-Centennial Conference 1,500 meters (2000, 2001)
- Two-time first-team All-Centennial Conference 3,000 meters (2001, 2002)
- Two-time first-team All-Centennial Conference 4x800 relay (1997, 2002)
Chris Johnstone '02
- 2002 distance medley relay national champion
- Three-time All-American (first in 2002 DMR; fourth in 2001 DMR; fifth in 2000 DMR)
- Three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference distance medley relay (2000, 2001, 2002)
- Two-time first-team All-Centennial Conference 800 meters (2000, 2002)
- Two-time first-team All-Centennial Conference 4x800 relay (1999, 2001)
Chris Ward '02
- 2002 distance medley relay national champion
- Three-time All-American (first in 2002 DMR; fourth in 2001 DMR; fifth in 2000 DMR)
- Four-time first-team All-Centennial Conference distance medley relay (1999, 2000, 2001, 2002)
Greg Bielecki '03
- 2002 distance medley relay national champion
- Two-time All-American (first in 2002 DMR; seventh in 2003 800 meters)
- Two-time first-team All-Centennial Conference 4x800 relay (2000, 2003)
- Two-time first-team All-Centennial Conference DMR (2001, 2002)
Brian Baillie '05
- Three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference 4x800 relay (2002, 2004, 2005)
Bobby Cannon '05
- 2005 DMR All-American (5th)
- Two-time first-team All-Centennial Conference distance medley relay (2004, 2005)
- Two-time first-team All-Centennial Conference 4x800 relay (2004, 2005)
Garvey Camilien '05
- Three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference 4x400 relay (2003, 2004, 2005)
- 2005 DMR All-American (5th)
Eddie Papalia '05
- 2005 DMR All-American (5th)
- 2005 Centennial Conference Outstanding Track Performer of the Meet
- Three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference distance medley relay (2002, 2004, 2005)
- Three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference 4x800 relay (2003, 2004, 2005)
- Two-time first-team All-Centennial Conference 800 meters (2004, 2005)
Samuel Dalke '07
- Four-time first-team All-Centennial Conference distance medley relay (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007)
Carson Pickens '07
- Two-time Centennial Conference Outstanding Field Performer (2005, 2007)
- Three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference high jump (2005, 2006, 2007)
Joe Awantang '08
- 2008 shot put All-American (8th)
- Four-time first-team All-Centennial Conference shot put (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008)
Don Letts '08
- 2007 5,000 meter All-American (8th)
- Three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference 5,000 meters (2006, 2007, 2008)
Tim Schoch '12
- Two-time All-American (third in 2011 distance medley relay; fourth in 2012 800 meters)
- Three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference 800 meters (2009, 2011, 2012)
- Two-time first-team All-Centennial Conference mile (2011, 2012)
Ben Siqueiros '12
- Three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference distance medley relay (2010, 2011, 2012)
Ivo Milic-Strkalj '13
- Three-time All-American (third in 2013 DMR; fourth in 2011 DMR; fifth in 2010 mile)
Michael Riccio '13
- 2013 DMR All-American (4th)
- Two-time first-team All-Centennial Conference distance medley relay (2010, 2011)
- Two-time first team All-Centennial Conference 4x800 relay (2010, 2011)
Gebby Keny '14
- Two-time All-American (second in 2014 DMR; fourth in 2013 DMR)
Chris Stadler '14
- 2013 NCAA 5,000 meter National Champion
- Three-time All-American (first in 2013 5,000 meters; second in 2014 DMR; fifth in 2014 3,000 meters)
- Two-time Centennial Conference Outstanding Track Performer (2013, 2014)
- Two-time first-team All-Centennial Conference 5,000 meters (2013, 2014)
Jeff Ainsley '16
- Three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference 60 meter hurdles (2014, 2015, 2016)
Charlie Marquardt '16
- Three-time All-American (second in 2016 mile; second in 2014 DMR; fifth in 2015 3,000 meters)
- Two-time Centennial Conference Outstanding Track Performer (2015, 2016)
- Three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference mile (2014, 2015, 2016)
Jonathan Yellets '16
- 2014 DMR All-American (2nd)
- Three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference 4x200 relay (2013, 2015, 2016)
Alex Frost '17
- Three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference 4x200 relay (2015, 2016, 2017)