Haverford at the Centennial Conference Championship
HAVERFORD, Pa. - The postseason segment of the 2021-22 schedule will begin on Saturday for the No. 28 ranked Haverford women's cross country team at the Johns Hopkins hosted Centennial Championship. Centennial teams will head to Suburban Baltimore on Saturday hungry to chase down a Centennial Conference title. The meet will be held at the Baltimore County Agricultural Center in Cockeysville, Maryland.
The men's 8K championship race will get things started at 11 a.m. before the women's 6K championship takes place at noon. The combined men's and women's open race is slated to follow the two championship races at approximately 12:45 p.m. to wrap up the day of racing.
In addition to the chase for a Centennial crown in a race that features three nationally ranked sides in No. 1 Johns Hopkins, No. 10 Dickinson, and No. 28 Haverford, the newly minted Metro Region will also see a battle for supremacy on its hands as the Fords take on rival Swarthmore looking to earn Hood Trophy points and finish above the Garnet as the top two teams in the region go head-to-head in Maryland. Regional No.6 Ursinus and No. 8 Muhlenberg will also be in the field on Saturday.
In its final tune-up before the CC championship, Izzy Miller took home the individual title in the Rowan Border Battle on the course at Gloucester County DREAM Park on October 16, pacing the stacked field of 275 with a time of 21:33.8. The performance helped lead the then-32nd-ranked Fords to a fourth place finish in the team standings, ahead of conference foes Dickinson and Swarthmore.
Miller, Griffin Kaulbach, Angie Petrichenko, Lauren Tanel, and Hannah Yeakey all bring Centennial Conference championship experience into the race, with Miller and Kaulbach logging top 20 finishes in 2019 as the grouping of five seniors will look to anchor Haverford into a deep postseason slate.
In CC championship races, Haverford has averaged just under three all-conference performers per year with 34 first-team honorees and 40 second-team honorees over the first 27 championship races. The Fords have had multiple runners named All-Centennial Conference in 23 of the 27 championship races.
Following the conference meet, Haverford will head to the NCAA Metro Regional back at Rowan on November 13. The women's race is slated for noon as the Fords will look to punch a return ticket to nationals as a team for the first time since 2017.
Fans are encouraged to follow @CentennialConf on Twitter and Instagram for race day coverage from Cockeysville.