NCAA Championships - Saturday, November 19 - Lansing, Mich. (Forest Akers Golf Course)
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LANSING, Mich. - The 12th-ranked Haverford College men's cross country team will join women's cross country individual qualifier Katie Hirsche at the 2022 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III Cross Country Championships on Saturday, November 19.
NEED TO KNOW
The national championship races will be co-hosted by Olivet College and the Greater Lansing Sports Authority and will take place at the Forest Akers Golf Course in Lansing, Michigan on the campus of Michigan State University. The men's race will begin at 12 p.m.. ET after the women's race which is set to start at 11 a.m. ET. The men's squad were automatic qualifiers by virtue of capturing the NCAA Metro Regional Championship for the second conseucitve season, while Katie Hirsche clinched automatic qualification as an individual on the women's side, finishing fifth in the regional championship race.
SQUADS
The men's seven declared entrants for the national meet will come from the grouping of Aaron Bratt, Peter Buckley, Ryan Kredell, Jamie Moreland, and Nico Tripeny along with juniors Nathaniel Leighninger and sophomores Miles Colescott, Peter LaRochelle, Seamus Fraser, and Reza Eshghi.
BACK-TO-BACK METRO CHAMPS!
Haverford punched its ticket to a 29th consecutive national championships appearance, with a dominating performance at the NCAA Metro Region Championship title race at DeSales University last Saturday afternoon. The win was Haverford's 25th regional title, and the second in as many seasons in the Metro region, which was established prior to the 2021 season.
Haverford scored an extremely strong 21 points, the program's best-ever tally at a regional meet, a mark that was well clear of second-place Swarthmore who finished with 74 and Moravian who crossed with 87 points for a third place finish. Haverford's spread was just 25 seconds as the Fords placed six runners in the top 35, including all five scorers within the top seven overall finishers.
Senior Ryan Kredell followed his Centennial Conference Championship two weeks ago with the title in the regional meet, crossing in 25:23. The individual regional crown was the first for Haverford since Graham Peet took home the Mideast Region title after the 2017 season and the 13th in program history.
WOMEN'S ALL-REGION HONORS
Haverford was buoyed at the Metro Regional by a fifth-place finish from sophomore Katie Hirsche, who finished in 23:18, earning automatic qualification as an individual to the NCAA Championships by virtue of a top-seven finish among those athletes not on the regional champions, Widener.
INDIVIDUAL HISTORY ON THE LINE
Hirsche, who will earn All-Region from the USTFCCCA by virtue of the performance, is Haverford's first individual qualifier to the national meet since Hannah Doll in the 2018 season. The Washington, D.C. product will look to give Haverford an All-American for the second straight season, as Izzy Miller and Angie Petrichenko each earned that honor in last season's championship in Louisville, Kentucky as the Fords qualified as a team by virtue of the 2021 regional title.
MEN'S ALL-REGION HONORS
Men's Cross Country Head Coach Tom Donnelly took home 2022 Metro Region Coach of the Year Honors while senior Ryan Kredell was named the Metro Region Athlete of the Year. The award is the 15th overall Regional Coach of the Year award for Donnelly, who has captured 13th of those titles in the Mideast Region before the Fords joined the newly-minted Metro Region prior to last season.
With finishes in the top 35 at the Metro Regional Championships, Kredell, Aaron Bratt, Jamie Moreland, Peter Buckley, Nathaniel Leighninger, and Nico Tripeny were all named All-Region from the USTFCCCA. Buckley and Kredell are now three-time All-Region selections while Tripeny picked up his second All-Region designation.
HOW TO GET HERE
Thirty-two teams were selected to participate in each championship. The top seven-person team automatically qualified from each of the 10 regions, for a total of 10 teams. Twenty-two additional teams were selected at-large. Seventy individuals, the first seven student-athletes from each region who are not a part of a qualifying team, were selected to participate in each championship.
POLL UPDATE
In the latest USTFCCCA Division III National Coaches Poll, released following the NCAA Regional Championships, the men's squad ranks 12th in the nation, up one spot from the previous release of the poll.
FOLLOW THE FORDS
Haverford fans wishing to follow Haverford throughout postseason action should bookmark the Haverford Athletics website and be sure to follow @HCFords_Sports on Twitter and @HCFordsSports on Instagram.