SYRACUSE XC SYRACUSE AT THE NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS Back to Back Goals

2016 SCHEDULE MEET Harry Lang Invitational Harry Groves Spiked Shoe Panorama Farms Invite Nuttycombe Wisconsin Invite John Reif Memorial ACC Championships NCAA Northeast Regional NCAA Championship

MEN 1st/15 pts 1st/19 pts 2nd/44 pts 4th/167 pts NTS 1st/29 pts 1st/29 pts Nov. 19

WOMEN 1st/15 pts 3rd/67 pts 3rd/98 pts 20th/454 pts NTS 5th/184 pts 8th/256 pts -

2016 TOP MEN’S FINISHERS MEET

Harry Lang Invitational arry Groves Spiked Shoe H Panorama Farms Invite Nuttycombe Wisconsin Invite John Reif Memorial ACC Championship NCAA Regionals NCAA Championship

RUNNER

Griff Molino Iliass Aouani Justyn Knight Justyn Knight Adam Palamar Justyn Knight Justyn Knight

Place/Time

1st/20:08.8 1st/26:17.1 1st/23:13.9 1st/23:53.1 1st/15:02.4 1st/22:50.7 1st/30:30.5

Nov. 19

2016 TOP WOMEN’S FINISHERS MEET

arry Lang Invitational H Harry Groves Spiked Shoe Panorama Farms Invite Nuttycombe Wisconsin Invite John Reif Memorial ACC Championship NCAA Regionals

RUNNER

Place/Time

Madeleine Davison 1st/17:49.7 Madeleine Davison 3rd/21:11 Madeleine Davison 8th/17:23.9 Paige Stoner 20th/20:56.6 Rachel Bonner * 1st Paige Stoner 1st/20:32.0 Paige Stoner 1st/20:43.5

* Raced unattached

4The Syracuse men’s cross country team enters the meet looking to repeat as National Champions having won the NCAA Title last season. 4The Orange’s 2015 title is the second in program history, after winning the National Championship in 1951 as well. 4Four of Syracuse’s top-five finishers from last year’s NCAA Championship return, with AllAmerican Martin Hehir being the long competitor to graduate from the Syracuse scoring.

Ranking the Orange

4The Syracuse men enter the NCAA Championship ranked at No. 5 in the USTFCCCA’s poll. 4Syracuse hasn’t been ranked outside of the top-six since the 2013 season. 4’Cuse has also been ranked No. 1 in each of the past two seasons.

About the NCAA Championship

4The meet will take place at the Lavern Gibson Championship Cross Country Course in Terre Haute, Indiana. 4The site is the same that the men placed fifth at in the 2014 NCAA National Championship. 4The men will compete in a 10k beginning at Noon. 4The race will be shown on NCAA.com

‘Cuse Top-10s

NCAA Championship History

4Last year’s NCAA Championship was a historic event for the program, marking the second title in the history of the school. 4However, it was also the first time the team had reached the podium sunce 1957. 4Under head coach Chris Fox, the Orange have turned back into a program of national relevence, something that ‘Cuse hadn’t experienced since the 1950s. A top-10 finish would be the fourth-straight for the Orange, a top-five finish would be the third-straight. 4Five current members of the Orange raced in last year’s NCAA Championship meet, while three were part of the 2014 race.

Year M/W Place 1946 M 8th 1947 M 2nd 1948 M 3rd 1949 M 2nd 1951 M 1st 1952 M T-4th 1953 M 3rd 1954 M 2nd 1957 M 4th 2010 W 10th 2013 M 10th 2014 M 5th 2015 M 1st

We’re Going Streaking

MEET INFO

Course Info Course....................................Laverm Gibson Championship Course Distances..................................................................................................10k Men’s Start Time...............................................................................12 p.m. Broadcast Info Stream......................................................................................FloTrack.com Live Results.................................................................................NCAA.com

MXC Title Streaks 4Winning the ACC Championship, the Syracuse men tied the third-longest streak for consecutive ACC men’s cross country School # Years Maryland 6 1964-69 titles. NC State 5 1995-99 4Only Maryland (6; 1964-69) and NC State (5; 1995-99) have Syracuse 4 2014longer streaks than the Orange’s four. The mark ties North Clemson 4 1980-83 Carolina (1960-63), Clemson (1980-83) and NC State’s (2001UNC 4 1960-63 04) streaks. NC State 4 2001-04 4Syracuse’s Conference titles streak is at five total, dating back to the 2012 BIG EAST Championship in the team’s final year in the league. 4It’s also the Orange’s seventh conference title in eight seasons after winning the 2009 and 2010 BIG EAST Championships as well before starting the current streak.

Regional Titles Too

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4The Syracuse men have also won four-straight NCAA Northeast Regional Championships after this year’s performance. 4Head coach Chris Fox has seen his programs win 10 regional championships, including seven from the men’s program. 4The seven men’s titles have all come in the past-eight seasons.

Knight Time

4Junior Justyn Knight has put on a show in his first four meets of 2016. 4The Vaughan, Ontario native has been twice named USTFCCCA Performed of the Week after winning both the Panorama Farms Invitational and the Nuttycombe Wisconsin Invitational. 4With his victory at the NCAA Northeast Regional Championship, Justyn Knight became the first member of the Orange since 1982 to win four individual meets in the same season. Jim O’Connell was the last member of the Orange to do so, winning the first four meets of the 1982 season. 4Knight finished fourth at last season’s NCAA Championship to lead all Syracuse runners. 4Adam Palamar was also honored after he won the John Reif Memorial.

SYRACUSE AT THE NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS USTFCCCA MEN’S RANKINGS Team 1. Northern Arizona 2. Colorado 3. Stanford 4. BYU 5. Syracuse 6. Arkansas 7. Iona 8. Oklahoma State 9. Portland 10. UCLA 11. Mississippi 12. Wisconsin 13. Oregon 14. Colorado State 15. Michigan State 16. Tulsa 17. NC State 18. Washington State 19. UTEP 20. Georgetown 21. Virginia 22. Middle Tennessee 23. Iowa State 24. Illinois 25. Southern Utah 26. Navy 26. California 28. Dartmouth 29. Boise State 30. Providence

Points 360 (12) 344 329 321 320 303 273 271 264 244 243 230 220 167 165 163 161 156 153 132 112 106 105 87 68 60 60 37 36 34

Last Week 1 2 4 3 5 6 7 9 12 8 11 14 10 19 18 23 27 17 15 22 16 26 13 NR 24 NR NR NR 20 30

Others Receiving Votes: Indiana (32), Furman (8), Bradley (6), Texas (5), Eastern Michigan (5)

USTFCCCA WOMEN’S RANKINGS Team 1. Colorado 2. NC State 3. Providence 4. Stanford 5. Michigan 6. New Mexico 7. Washington 8. Penn State 9. Arkansas 10. San Francisco 11. Notre Dame 12. Oregon 13. Missouri 14. Portland 15. Oklahoma State 16. Iowa State 17. Harvard 18. Villanova 19. Mississippi State 20. Air Force 21. Mississippi 22. Michigan State 23. Baylor 24. Eastern Michigan 25. Wisconsin 25. Yale 27. Utah 27. BYU 29. Penn 30. UCLA

Points 360 (12) 343 335 315 314 291 285 281 278 228 225 223 190 188 169 168 161 139 127 120 111 108 102 91 82 80 77 75 60 28

Last Week 1 2 3 7 5 6 4 9 7 16 14 11 RV 10 17 12 18 21 RV 29 14 22 25 13 NR 23 20 18 24 RV

Others Receiving Votes: Louisville (15), West Virginia (7), Dartmouth (1), Kentucky (1)

Orange Earn Regional Awards

4For the fourth consecutive season, head coach Chris Fox has earned USTFCCCA Men’s Coach of the Year honors. 4Justyn Knight also earned regional recognition, being named USTFCCCA Northeast Region Men’s Performer of the Year for the second straight year. 4Knight is the first Syracuse student-athlete to win the award multiple times and joins Iona’s Leonard Korir (2010, 2011) and Richard Kiplagat (2003, 2005), as well as Providence’s Keith Kelly (1998, 2000) as the only men to win the award in multiple seasons. 4Knight is just the second Syracuse student-athlete to win the award, following up Katie Zaferes, formerly Katie Hursey, who won the honor in 2009. Hursey represented the United States in the Rio de Janeiro Olympics this summer, competing in the triathalon.

All-ACC Recognition

4Syracuse’s top seven runners received All-ACC accolades following the team’s victory in the ACC Championship. 4Justyn Knight and Colin Bennie earned the award for their third time each, having both done so in 2014 and 2015 as well. 4Joel Hubbard (2014) and Philo Germano (2015) earned their second All-ACC honors. 4Iliass Aouani, Adam Visokay, and Kevin James also received recognition, marking the first all-conference awards for each.

All-Region Recognition

4After winning the Northeast Regional, Syracuse’s top-six runners received All-Region honors: Iliass Aouani, Colin Bennie, Philo Germano, Joel Hubbard, Justyn Knight, and Adam Visokay. 4The Orange’s six honorees tied No. 22 Middle Tennessee and No. 26 Navy for the top mark in the country. 4Twelve teams, including the Orange, placed their entire starting lineup in the top-25 of their respective regions.

Orange at the NCAA Championships

4Colin Bennie, Justyn Knight, and Joel Hubbard will all race in their third National Championship this weekend, while Philo Germano will return to the title meet for the second consecutive year. 4In 2014, Bennie finished fifth for the Orange and 95th overall with a time of 31:30.0. Knight and Hubbard did not score for the Orange, placing 143rd and 165th respectively. 4Last year, Knight placed fourth overall (29:46.1), while Colin Bennie also logged a top-1o finish, placing eighth (29:55.9). Germano finished fourth for the Orange, and 39th overall (30:29.8), while Hubbard rounded out Syracuse’s scoring finishing 47th (30:31.5).

Orange in Terre Haute

4Terre Haute is familiar territory for the Orange, as the team ran to its first top-five finish in nearly 60 years at the site during the 2014 National Championship. 4Then-redshirt-freshman Colin Bennie, placed fifth amongst the Orange and 95th overall with a time of 31:30.0 to round out the team’s scoring. 4Justyn Knight, a freshman at the time, and Joel Hubbard, a redshirt sophomore at the time, also ran, placing 143rd and 165th to finish sixth and seventh for Syracuse.

Bennie’s Breakout Year

4Colin Bennie returns to the National Championship following a breakout 2015 campaign which was capped off with an eighth-place finish in the national title meet. 4Last season, Bennie ran in six races, placing in the top-10 in all of them and the top-5 in four of them. Bennie won the Harry Groves Spiked Shoe Invitational and placed second in the NCAA Regionals, behind teammate Justyn Knight. 4This season, Bennie has run in four races, including three top-10 finishes. For the second straight year, Bennie placed second at the NCAA Regionals behind Knight.

Germano Closes For Title

4Philo Germano’s heroic finish at last year’s NCAA Championship sealed the Orange’s first National Championship in 64 years. 4Passing 14 runners in the final 2k, Germano finished the course in 30:29.8. The time ranked 39th overall and fourth among the Orange, with the late push ultimately serving as the team’s deciding factor. Germano earned All-America accolades for the performance.

Talented Transfers

4This year’s Orange features two impact transfers: Iliass Aouani and Adam Visokay. 4Aouani has run in five races for the Orange, placing in the top-10 three times. In his first race, Aouani led Syracuse and placed first overall in the Harry Groves Spiked Shoe Invitational (26:17.1). Aouani also had a top-10 finish at the NCAA Regionals, placing seventh overall and third among the Orange. 4Visokay has run in five races as well, placing in the top-25 in three of them. At the NCAA Regionals, Visokay ran to his best overall finish of the seaso, placing 15th (30:52.3).

SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY 2 0 1 6 M E N ’ S I N D I V I D U A L R E S U LT S

Iliass Aouani Colin Bennie Mickey Burke Joseph Dragon Philo Germano Robert Hall Dominic Hockenbury T.J. Hornberger Joel Hubbard Kevin James Justyn Knight Paul Lovell Pierce Miller Griffin Molino Andrew Paladino Adam Palamar Nick Ryan Simon Smith Aidan Tooker Adam Visokay Shawn Wilson

Harry Lang

Harry Groves

- - - - - 22:17.9/36th - 20:20.6/7th - - - - - 20:08.8/1st 21:22.2/16th 23:24.8/46th 20:19.3/6th 20:26.9/8th - - 20:09.8/5th

26:17.1/1st - - - 26:24.5/2nd 27:51.9/45th - 26:40.9/7th 26:25.3/3rd 26:38.3/6th - - - 26:55.5/14th 28:50.0/83rd 27:47.6/40th 28:26.4/72nd 27:33.3/32nd - 27:12.3/21st 26:48.7/9th

Panorama Farms

Wisconsin

John Reif

24:13.7/12th 24:53.5/86th - 23:57.6/6th 24:09.9/14th - - - - - - - 23:59.4/7th 24:24.7/28th - 28:51.7/105th - 16:37.2/15th - - - 24:42.6/25th 25:51.2/35th * - - 24:28.2/38th - 24:29.1/18th 25:02.1/5th * - 23:13.9/1st 23:53.1/1st - - - 17:18.1/17th - - - 24:56.5/28th 25:10.8/8th * - - - - - - 15:02.4/1st 25:30.8/44th - 15:32.9/6th 27:00.7/84th - 15:27.2/4th - 25:48.2/166th - 25:42.4/51st 24:54.1/87th - 25:16.8/38th - 15:37.8/7th

ACC Champs

NCAA Regionals

NCAA Champs

23:22.4/6th 23:12.8/5th - - 23:25.8/9th - - - 23:25.1/8th 23:51.2/21st 22:50.7/1st - - 24:21.4/41st - - - - - 23:46.9/19th -

30:41.2/7th 30:32.8/2nd - - 30:47.4/9th - - - 30:47.4/10th - 30:30.5/1st - - 31:30.3/31st - - - - - 30:52.3/15th -

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

*Competed in the open race, not the invite at Wisconsin

TEAM RESULTS

Date

Meet

Finish

9/3 9/10 9/23 10/14 10/21 10/28 11/11 11/19

Harry Lang Invitational Harry Groves Spiked Shoe Panorama Farms Invitational Wisconsin Adidas Invite John Reif Memorial ACC Championships NCAA Regionals NCAA Championships

1st/15 pts 1st/19 pts 2nd/44 pts 4th/167 pts NTS 1st/29 pts 1st/29 pts -

CROSS

S

Top Performer Griff Molino (1st) Iliass Aouani (1st) Justyn Knight (1st) Justyn Knight (1st) Adam Palamar (1st) Justyn Knight (1st) Justyn Knight (1st) -

COUNTRY

SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY 2 0 1 6 W O M E N ’ S I N D I V I D U A L R E S U LT S



McKenzie Altmayer Stephanie Bitcon Rachel Bonner Alexandra Cooper Madeleine Davison Riley Higgins Kayli Jones Sydney Leiher Mary Malone Shannon Malone Chelsie Pennello Kelsey Potts Paige Stoner Maggie Toczko Emma Wilson

Harry Lang

18:01.2/4th 18:17.5/6th - 18:02.7/5th 17:49.7/1st - - 18:34.4/13th 18:23.1/9th - 18:27.9/10th - 17:50.9/3rd 18:31.6/12th 17:50.7/2nd

Harry Groves Panorama Farms Wisconsin

21:36/12th 23:21/47th - 22:26/27th 21:11/3rd - - 22:09/22nd - - 22:50/35th - 21:45/16th 22:58/38th 21:47/17th

*- Competed in the open race, not the invite at Wisconsin

17:58.6/27th 18:32.4/50th - 18:02.3/29th 17:23.9/8th - - 18:26.8/43rd 18:00.8/28th 18:52.6/63rd 19:31.5/91st - 17:32.4/12th - 17:53.0/23rd

John Reif ^

ACC Champs

NCAA Regionals

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

21:07.5/39th 21:38.6/69th - - 21:26.9/53rd - - 21:34.9/60th 20:45.5/24th 21:38.0/67th 22:33.5/107th - 20:32.0/17th - 21:50.4/79th

21:59.8/74th - - - 22:05.1/82nd - - 21:54.2/62nd 23:34.3/196th 21:56.2/67th - - 20:43.5/10th - 21:32.4/43rd

21:20.2/92nd 22:45.8/78th * - 21:44.8/128th 24:02.9/205th - - 22:25.2/178th 21:24.2/99th 22:24.3/46th * 23:16.9/98th * - 20:56.6/44th - 21:19.6/91st

^ - Only unattached Syracuse runners competed at John Reif

TEAM RESULTS

Date

Meet

Finish

9/3 Harry Lang Invitational 9/10 Harry Groves Spiked Shoe 9/23 Panorama Farms Invitational 10/14 Wisconsin Adidas Invite 10/21 John Reif Memorial 10/28 ACC Championships 11/11 NCAA Regionals * - Unattached

CROSS

1st/15 pts 3rd/67 pts 3rd/98 pts 20th/454 pts NTS 5th/184 pts 8th/256 pts

S

Top Performer Madeleine Davison (1st) Madeleine Davison (3rd) Madeleine Davison (8th) Paige Stoner (44th) Rachel Bonner (1st) * Paige Stoner (17th) Paige Stoner (10th)

COUNTRY





2016 NCAA Division I Men's Cross Country Championships Starting Box Assignments Institution Box Individuals 5 1 Southern Utah 2 Oregon 3 Michigan State 4 Dartmouth 5 Individuals 9 6 Virginia 7 Middle Tennessee State 8 Arkansas 9 UCLA 10 Iona 11 Individuals 8 12 Iowa State 13 Portland 14 NC State 15 Individuals 6 16 Wisconsin 17 Washington 18 Tulsa 19 Illinois 20 Individuals 2 21 Individuals 1 22 Colorado 23 Individuals 3 24 California 25 UTEP 26 Brigham Young 27 Georgetown 28 Northern Arizona 29 Texas 30 Navy 31 Syracuse 32 Individuals 7 33 Boise State 34 Colorado State 35 Stanford 36 Providence 37 Individuals 4 38 Mississippi 39 Individuals 10 40 Oklahoma State 41

Individuals Individuals 1

Individuals 7 Khalil Rmidi Kinini, Maryland Eastern Shore Reed Fischer, Drake Patrick Tiernan, Villanova Nicholas Raymond, Eastern Michigan Andrew Marston, Villanova Jacob Thomson, Kentucky Alex Short, San Francisco Individuals 2 Erick Rotich, Eastern Kentucky Joel Reichow, South Dakota State Craig Lautenslager, UT-Arlington Michael Guerrero, UT-Arlington

Individuals 8 Robbie Farnham-Rose, Alabama Antibahs Kosgei, Alabama Amon Terer, Campbell Lawrence Kipkoech, Campbell

Individuals 3 Brian Zabilski, Columbia Kenny Vasbinder, Columbia Edwin Kibichiy, Louisville Emmanuel Rotich, Tulane

Individuals 9 Michael Ward, Bradley Arse'ne Guillorel, Samford James Randon, Yale

Individuals 4 Sean Burke, Boston College Harry Mulenga, Florida State Frank Lara, Furman Gabe Arias-Sheridan, St. Mary's (Cal.)

Individuals 10 Andrew Johnston, Air Force Matthew Schwartzer, Indiana Jason Crist, Indiana Jose Pina, San Jose State

Individuals 5 Nicholas Tuck, Pennsylvania Jaret Carpenter, Purdue Benard Keter, Texas Tech Dillon Maggard, Utah State Individuals 6 Dylan Blankenbaker, Oklahoma Conor Lundy, Princeton Stanley Limoh, Louisiana-Lafayette Fred Huxham, Washington