Centennial Conference Silver Anniversary Team 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 Monday, the Centennial Conference released the list of 25 men's cross country performers who were named to the Silver Anniversary team. With 22 Centennial Conference Championships (1993-2007, 2010-2012, and 2014-2017) during the first 25 years, the Haverford College men's cross country team was well represented with 20 student-athletes among the honorees. The Ford men won the only national team championship in conference history on the men's side in 2010 and have also finished second nationally on three other occasions (2007, 2011, 2012).
The purpose of the Centennial Conference is to provide for athletic competition among institutions that share high academic aspirations and are committed to the importance of the total educational experience for students engaged in sports. Its full-time members include Bryn Mawr, Dickinson, Franklin & Marshall, Gettysburg, Haverford, McDaniel, Muhlenberg, Swarthmore, Ursinus and Washington Colleges, along with Johns Hopkins University.
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 Men's Cross Country Silver Anniversary Honorees (by class year)
Mark Gyandoh '96
- Three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference (third in 1994; fifth in 1995; sixth in 1993)
Karl Paranya '97
- Three-time Centennial Conference Performer of the Year (1994, 1995, 1996)
- Four-time first-team All-Centennial Conference (first in 1994, 1995, 1996; and fifth in 1993)
- Three-time NCAA All-American (second in 1996; fifth in 1995; 11th in 1994)
Aaron Cooper '98
- Two-time first-team All-Centennial Conference (second in 1997; third in 1996)
- One-time All-American (34th in 1997)
Ntobeko Ntusi '98
- 1997 Centennial Conference Performer of the Year
- Three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference (first in 1997; second in 1995; sixth in 1996)
Joe McCool '01
- Three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference (third in 1999; sixth in 2000; seventh in 1998)
Stephon Petro '01
- Three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference (third in 1997 and 2000; fourth in 1999)
J.B. Haglund '02
- 2001 NCAA Division III Individual National Champion
- Two-time All-American (first in 2001; 13th in 2000)
- Two-time Centennial Conference Performer of the Year (2000, 2001)
Greg Bielecki '03
- Three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference (second in 2002; fifth in 2000; sixth in 2001)
Bobby Cannon '05
- Three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference (second in 2003 and 2004; sixth in 2002)
- 2003 All-American (21st)
Grant Scott '06
- Three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference (second in 2005; fifth in 2003 and 2004)
- 2005 All-American (14th)
Zachary Vaslow '07
- 2006 Centennial Conference Performer of the Year
- Three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference (first in 2006; fourth in 2004; seventh in 2005)
- 2006 All-American (26th)
Don Letts '08
- 2007 Centennial Conference Performer of the Year
- Three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference (first in 2007; second in 2006; fourth in 2005)
- Two-time All-American (17th in 2007; 18th in 2006)
Ian Ramsey-North '09
- 2005 Centennial Conference Performer of the Year
- Three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference (first in 2005; second in 2007; sixth in 2004)
- Two-time All-American (16th in 2007; 28th in 2005)
Anders Hulleberg '11
- 2010 NCAA Division III Individual National Champion
- 2010 Centennial Conference Performer of the Year
- Two-time first-team All-Centennial Conference (first in 2010; third in 2007)
Eric Arnold '12
- 2010 All-American (34th)
- Two-time first-team All-Centennial Conference (fourth in 2011; seventh in 2010)
Jordan Schilit '13
- Two-time All-American (18th in 2011; 31st in 2010)
- 2011 Centennial Conference Performer of the Year
Peter Kissin '13
- 2012 All-American (28th)
- Two-time first-team All-Centennial Conference (sixth in 2011 and 2012)
Chris Stadler '14
- Two-time Centennial Conference Performer of the Year (2012, 2013)
- Two-time All-American (12th in 2012; 19th in 2013)
- Two-time first-team All-Centennial Conference (first in 2012 and 2013)
Charlie Marquardt '16
- Two-time Centennial Conference Performer of the Year (2014, 2015)
- 2015 All-American (18th)
- Two-time first-team All-Centennial Conference (first in 2014 and 2015)
Henry Woods '18
- 2017 Centennial Conference Performer of the Year
- Two-time All-American (18th in 2017; 22nd in 2016)
- Two-time first-team All-Centennial Conference (first in 2017; second in 2016)