Cornell’s women’s cross-country team ended its season with a 17th-place finish among 40 teams Friday at the NCAA Division I Northeast Regional Championship in Bethpage, New York.
Senior Maisie McManus led the Big Red in 41st place, completing the 6-kilometer race in 20 minutes, 55 seconds. Cornell scored 527 points in temperatures near 40 degrees and rain that continued throughout the race, according to Cornell Athletics’ recap.
McManus leads Cornell’s seven finishers
Cornell’s five scoring runners averaged 21:38 and finished within 1:01.8 of one another. Sophomore Kinga Czajkowska was the team’s second finisher, placing 106th in 21:39.5.
Junior Fiona Lee followed in 115th at 21:46.5. Sophomore Evelyn Prodoehl finished 129th in 21:53.2, and junior Lucia Werner completed the scoring five in 136th at 21:56.8.
Freshman Sophia Juanes-Seto placed 140th in 22:04.7, while junior Hannah Kersten finished 158th in 22:14.1.
Boston College wins regional team title
Boston College won the championship with 51 points, followed by Providence with 58 and Syracuse with 77. Syracuse sophomore Keira Rogan took the individual title in 19:46.9.
Cornell finished fifth among the six Ivy League teams in the field. Harvard led that group in sixth overall with 213 points, followed by Yale in eighth with 250, Columbia in ninth with 269 and Brown in 12th with 392. Dartmouth finished 20th with 603 points.
Season ends where it began
The regional brought Cornell back to the Bethpage course where it opened the season with a victory at the Panthers XC Invite on Sept. 4. The Big Red followed with another win Sept. 11 on its home Moakley Course, scoring 22 points against Ithaca College and SUNY Cortland.
Cornell placed 17th at the Princeton Meadows Challenge on Sept. 26. The Paul Short Invitational scheduled for Oct. 2 was canceled because of heat.
The Big Red returned to competition Oct. 16 at the Pre-National Invitational in Terre Haute, Indiana, finishing seventh among 26 teams in the White race. Cornell then hosted the John Reif Memorial on Oct. 23, a meet without team scoring.
At the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships on Oct. 31 in Attleboro, Massachusetts, Cornell finished eighth in the eight-team field with 206 points. McManus led the team in 21st place. Juanes-Seto fell in an early pileup and did not finish that race.
Many of Cornell’s distance runners will now turn to indoor track and field in December. The university said its indoor schedule will be released soon.
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