Men's Championship Site | Women's Championship Site
 
GETTYSBURG, Pa. – It is one of the highly anticipated events of the season for the Gettysburg College men's and women's cross country teams as they participate in the Centennial Conference Cross Country Championships that will take place at Haverford College this Saturday.
 
The women's varsity 6,000-meter race will kick off at 11:00 a.m. before the men's varsity 8,000-meter race that will begin at noon. A combined men's and women's open race will also be held at 12:45 p.m.
 
Ten schools will compete for the women's title while nine teams will vie for the men's crown. Each team may run up to 12 competitors in each championship race. Last year's CC Championship was hosted by Gettysburg for the first time since it was held at the Battlefield in back-to-back years in 2008 and 2009.
 
Last season, Johns Hopkins women's team won its 10th-straight Centennial Conference title, while the Haverford men's squad claimed its fourth-straight conference title.  
 
The top-14 finishers in each championship race receive All-Centennial Conference recognition. The top-seven are named First Team All-CC while the eighth through 14th-place finishers garner second-team accolades. The championship race winners are named the Centennial Conference Runners of the Year while the top freshman finishers capture CC Rookie of the Year honors.    
 
Last season, the women's squad finished fifth among 10 teams with Elizabeth Hilfrank '18 and Sarah Rinehart '19 (Eldersburg, Md./Liberty) leading the way with fourth (21:55) and 12th (22:43) place finishes, respectively, in a field of 100 runners. They each earned all-conference honors for the first time in their careers. 
 
For the women, four Bullets return after competing in the championship race of last year's conference meet, including Rinehart. Rinehart returns as the team's top finisher as she has been the No. 1 runner in three races and the No. 2 in one race this season. Fellow classmates Margot Hoagland (Plymouth, Mass./Plymouth North), Colleen Campbell (Erie, Pa./Collegiate Academy), and Madison Fox (Akron, Pa./Ephrata) also bring experience and will look to improve their times from last year's race.
 
The women have a slew of first time runners competing in the championship race. Senior Danielle DeMichael (Doylestown, Pa./Central Bucks East), sophomore Holly Fullman (Chatham, N.J./Chatham), freshman Ashlyn Booher (Boiling Springs, Pa./Boiling Springs), Lauren Browning (Rochester, N.Y./Allendale Columbia), Georgia Larzelere (Medford, N.J./Shawnee), Amy Milner (Ithaca, N.Y./Ithaca), Kathrin O'Brien (Lynchburg, Va./Virginia Episcopal School), and Mary Rigg (West Lawn, Pa./Wilson). Senior Katie Bell (Harleysville, Pa./Souderton) will be running in her second CC Championship race of her career.
 
On the men's side, the squad placed sixth out of nine teams at last year's CC Championships. Matt Robinson '19 (Taneytown, Md./Pinkerton Academy [N.H.]) placed 35th out of 99 runners to lead the men's team with a time of 27:10.
 
Gettysburg men's team is led by junior Sam Sheldon (Tully, N.Y./Tully) and senior Alex Petrecca (Fairfield, Conn./Fairfield Warde). Sheldon has finished as the team's No. 1 runner in two races, while Petreeca has placed No. 1 in one race and No. 2 in two races.
 
The Bullet men also return plenty of athletes with CC Championship experience, as seven of the squad's competitors who competed in last year's championship race are back, including Petrecca and Sheldon. Robinson, senior Mike Miller (Malvern, Pa./Great Valley), junior Jonathan Gronke, junior Aren Heitmann (Fairfield, Conn./Fairfield Ludlowe) and sophomore Dylan McKeever (Furlong, Pa./Central Bucks East) will look to help the Bullets improve their sixth place finish as a team from a season ago.
 
Gettysburg also has a number of runners who will be competing in their first championship race. Freshman Henry Goodson (Staunton, Va./Robert E. Lee), sophomore Jack Kenyon (Centerport, N.Y./Harborfields), freshman Charles Norelli (Allentown, Pa./Emmaus), sophomore Nick Rose (Meadville, Pa./Meadville), and freshman Cole Wirth (Wallingford, Pa./Strath Haven) will all look to help an impact on Saturday.  
 
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