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HAVERFORD, Pa. - The Haverford College women's cross country team heads to Newville, Pa., and Big Spring High School for the 2024 Centennial Conference Championship on Saturday morning.
The women's 6,000-meter race is set to start at 11 a.m., followed by the men's race at noon. Representing Haverford will be Grace Chen, Poppy Chrisman, Sophia Furman, Anastasia Jaycobs, Dominique La Grenade, Krysta Nichols, Bianca Ortiz, Claire Parsons, Maia Poremba, Alice Sappenfield, Savannah Shaw, Dalia Smid, Katie Strutton, Julianna Watson, and Judy Xie.
The Fords have claimed three Conference titles in their history, with their last in 1996, and made their most recent NCAA Championship appearance in 2021, finishing 24th. Last season, Haverford placed fourth at the Centennial Conference Championships, with Alice Sappenfield honored as Centennial Conference Rookie of the Year. The Fords scored 113 points, overcoming challenging conditions on a hilly course, and outpaced Swarthmore, which finished sixth with 160 points to secure a Hood Trophy point. Sappenfield, La Grenade, Shaw, Nichols and Watson all return from last season's top seven, while Chrisman and Furman were also finishers a season ago.
The women's meet features one nationally-ranked team, No. 3 Johns Hopkins, which has dominated with 15 consecutive titles and aims to defend its crown. Last year, the Blue Jays achieved a perfect team score for the second year in a row, placing all five top finishers and seven of the top nine.
Six regionally-ranked teams will compete this weekend, including Johns Hopkins, the Mid-Atlantic's No. 1, along with No. 3 Gettysburg, No. 5 Dickinson, Metro No. 2 Swarthmore, the Metro No. 7 Fords, and Metro No. 10 Bryn Mawr.
Live results and video will be available on the Championship Central page. For fans attending in person, parking is $10 per car, with pets and bikes prohibited on site per school district policy.
After the Centennial Conference Championship, the Fords will head to the NCAA Metro Regional Championship on November 16 at Stockton University's North Athletic Complex in Galloway, N.J., with the women's race set for 11 a.m., where Haverford will aim for a place at the NCAA Championships the following week.