Signature Races: The Haverford College men's cross country team defended its Centennial Conference Championship (Oct. 31) with five runners placing inside the top ten, highlighted by senior Charlie Marquardt's second straight individual title at the Greenspring Course on the campus of Stevenson University. Haverford scored its 20th conference title in 23 seasons while Marquardt became the 18th Ford to win the conference event.
Haverford qualified for the NCAA Division III Championship with its first place finish at the Mideast Regional (Nov.14) at the Big Spring High School hosted by Dickinson College. This was the team's 23rd consecutive trip to the NCAA meet.
Awards:
NCAA Division III Championship – 12th place
NCAA All-American - Marquardt
Mideast Region Runner of the Year – Marquardt
Mideast Region Coach of the Year – Tom Donnelly
All-Mideast Region – Marquardt, Jimmy Gorman, Sam Fujimori, Henry Woods, Graham Peet, Nicholas Gandolfo-Lucia and Dylan Verner-Crist
Centennial Conference Runner of the Year – Marquardt
All-Centennial Conference First Team – Marquardt, Gorman, Fujimori
All-Centennial Conference Second Team – Peet, Gandolfo-Lucia, Woods, Michael Brier and Verner-Crist
Centennial Conference Freshman of the Year – Peet
Centennial Conference Coach of the Year – Donnelly
Centennial Conference All-Sportsmanship Team – Bill Ristow
Centennial Conference Fall Academic Honor Roll – Liam Bassett, Brier, Fujimori, Gandolfo-Lucia, Ryan Gooding, Charlie Hale, Marcelo Jauregui-Volpe, Brad Morbeck, Ristow, Julian Schneider, James Stadler, Verner-Crist and Woods
Centennial Conference Runner of the Week – Marquardt (Sept. 21, Oct. 5 & 19)
Season Notes: The team won four straight meets including the conference and Mideast Regional meets … Marquardt became the first Ford to win a cross country All-American certificate since 2013 … The senior is just the fifth person to win back-to-back conference titles and the fourth from Haverford … The Fords now have 92 Centennial Conference first-team selections, 62 more than the next closest school, Dickinson … Haverford finished third among 39 teams at the Paul Short Run (Oct. 2) … The team outscored Division-I Temple at the Main Line Invitational (Sept. 18).