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MET IC XC 2014Published by
By ELLIOTT DENMAN
Fordham University coach Tom Dewey knew his cross country Rams were loaded with talent and potential. He knew his team had the ability to do very fine things this autumn. He'd recruited well. The veterans as well as the newcomers arrived on Fordham Road in good shape, trained well and were poised for a break-out performance.
But not until he saw juniors Quincy O'Connor and Michael Turi and freshman Thomas
Slattery swoop over the finish line in the 1-2-3 positions, with two more freshmen,
Nikolas O'Brien and Louis Santelli in the 7-13 spots, in the 87th annual Metropolitan
Intercollegiate Cross Country Championships Friday at Van Cortlandt Park, did
he get rather emotional about it.
This is Dewey's 35th year at the helm of the Rams. Fordham hadn't won this Met IC men's title since 1963 - 51 years ago. So you can understand the excitement in his voice, the
delight in his eyes, the thrill of it all.
Good things, indeed, had come to this veteran mentor, who'd waited...and waited...and waited...for all of this to happen.
"This feels great, just great; it was incredible, not only was 1963 the last time Fordham won the Mets, but that was the only time," said Dewey, a 50-year veteran of the coaching game (who'd served at Bishop Ford, Nazareth and St. Augustine high schools before moving to Fordham Road.)
"Normally, we fall a little short at this race, but not today. We've lost a few times the past few years, by maybe four points, five points, but today was very different. It wasn't even close (Fordham's 26-point total easily beating runner-up and two-time Met IC defender NYU's 75, third-place Columbia's 79, fourth-place Rutgers' 109, and the rest of the nine-team field.
Manhattan's men, under new XC coach Nick McDonough (who moved uptown after 16 years leading the NYU program) climbed to fifth place.
"Just an incredible feeling all around," Dewey called it.
Fordham not only won by a wide margin - O'Connor covering the five-mile course in 25:51.3, Turi in 26:12.9 and Slattery in 26:15.7 - but ran without its top runner.
"That's (senior) Jonathan Annelli," said Dewey. "Unfortunately, he might be out for the rest of the season (with a major calf injury.)"
Still, there was no doubt about Fordham's dominance. NYU senior Sebastian Oja (26:25.4), Wagner senior Jacob Malakoff (26:34.1) and Columbia junior Quinn Devlin (26:37.1) were the only other runners to get in ahead of Fordham's fourth man, O'Brien.
There was similar delight in the Met ICs for the women of Rutgers.
In fact, they were even more dominating in their 5K race than the Fordham men were in their five-miler.
Putting four runners in the top five - junior Paige Senatore won it all in 18:19.4, senior Allison Payenski ran third in 18:35.5, freshman Megan Coakley fourth in 18:37.7 and senior Brianna Deming fifth in 18:42.5 - Coach James Robinson's Scarlet Knights made it a runaway in taking their first Met title since 1997.
After these four, all it took was freshman Alexandra Juzwiak's 10th in 19:02.3 for the
Knights to wrap their low-low winning total of 23 points. Only Fordham's second place Brianna Tevnan (18:28.7) was able to break up the Rutgers top four.
Fordham added to its very big day at the Mets with a second-place total of 75, with much-improved Wagner a surprise third at 135, edging NYU and Columbia (who both scored 139) and the balance of the 12-school field. Columbia's women had won this Met crown 11 years in a row but were never a threat this time. Top Lion finisher was sophomore Brittney Wade in 22nd place.
"The women had fantastic performances today," said RU's Robinson. "They all improved about a minute apiece ( from running in the Fordham Fiasco here four weeks ago.)
"Now we'll train (even) more intensely as we set our sights on the Big Ten meet (Nov. 2 in
Iowa City, Iowa.)"
In distance coach/assistant coach Jan Merrill-Moran (the Olympian and multi-national champion and record-breaker), Rutgers has one of the most honored coaches in the nation.
"Oh, they know I was in the Olympics, but I don't think knew I (once) ran a 16:10 on this course," said Merrill-Morin.
"They just don't know all the details. I don't really mention it to them,
That's not important now.
"Being in the Big 10, that will raise the stakes for everybody. We've got to raise the intensity and build the mindset. They all know that now."
For sure, nationally-ranked Iona sat this one out and Columbia's first-string was absent,
but that took nothing away from it for the men of Fordham.
"Coming in here, all the freshmen were excited," said Fordham second finisher Slattery. "And so were the upper classmen. We have the talent this year, and we definitely have the attitude. We're looking for big things.
"The three of us (he, O'Connor and Turi) ran together most of the way. We worked our way up and made it all work.
"Quincy ran great, he broke it up on downhill part of the back hills, he created a gap and just stuck it out.
"Coach Dewey has had us doing a lot of strength work. We had a great recruiting class.
No wonder we're pretty excited right now. "
"I was just trying to win for the team, that was my whole focus," said O'Connor, who gave Fordham its second Met individual title in four years; Julian Saad had won the Met (as well as the IC4A) crown in 2011, before completing his college career as a graduate student at
Providence.
"We're building back the great Fordham tradition,"said O'Connor. "Oh, definitely."
"I always like challenges," said women's champion Senatore of RU.
"I felt really good after that first mile mark, and broke away from the Fordham girl (Tevnan) with about 1,200 meters to go.
"Now it's time to look ahead. I think we're confident we'll do pretty well in the Big 10."
Jennifer Heggie, back in 1993, was the first Rutgers woman to win the Met title.
Senatore becomes the fourth RU woman to win it since the turn into the 21st century. Olympian-to-be Julie Culley took the 2000 and 2002 Met titles, and was followed by Allison
Caruana in 2006 and Brianna Deming in 2011.
After sitting out the 2013 season - to focus on her pharmacy studies - Deming was back in the RU lineup again and finished a solid fifth. Yes, she had the right prescription in this one
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MET IC XC 2014Published by
By ELLIOTT DENMAN
Fordham University coach Tom Dewey knew his cross country Rams were loaded with talent and potential. He knew his team had the ability to do very fine things this autumn. He'd recruited well. The veterans as well as the newcomers arrived on Fordham Road in good shape, trained well and were poised for a break-out performance.
But not until he saw juniors Quincy O'Connor and Michael Turi and freshman Thomas
Slattery swoop over the finish line in the 1-2-3 positions, with two more freshmen,
Nikolas O'Brien and Louis Santelli in the 7-13 spots, in the 87th annual Metropolitan
Intercollegiate Cross Country Championships Friday at Van Cortlandt Park, did
he get rather emotional about it.
This is Dewey's 35th year at the helm of the Rams. Fordham hadn't won this Met IC men's title since 1963 - 51 years ago. So you can understand the excitement in his voice, the
delight in his eyes, the thrill of it all.
Good things, indeed, had come to this veteran mentor, who'd waited...and waited...and waited...for all of this to happen.
"This feels great, just great; it was incredible, not only was 1963 the last time Fordham won the Mets, but that was the only time," said Dewey, a 50-year veteran of the coaching game (who'd served at Bishop Ford, Nazareth and St. Augustine high schools before moving to Fordham Road.)
"Normally, we fall a little short at this race, but not today. We've lost a few times the past few years, by maybe four points, five points, but today was very different. It wasn't even close (Fordham's 26-point total easily beating runner-up and two-time Met IC defender NYU's 75, third-place Columbia's 79, fourth-place Rutgers' 109, and the rest of the nine-team field.
Manhattan's men, under new XC coach Nick McDonough (who moved uptown after 16 years leading the NYU program) climbed to fifth place.
"Just an incredible feeling all around," Dewey called it.
Fordham not only won by a wide margin - O'Connor covering the five-mile course in 25:51.3, Turi in 26:12.9 and Slattery in 26:15.7 - but ran without its top runner.
"That's (senior) Jonathan Annelli," said Dewey. "Unfortunately, he might be out for the rest of the season (with a major calf injury.)"
Still, there was no doubt about Fordham's dominance. NYU senior Sebastian Oja (26:25.4), Wagner senior Jacob Malakoff (26:34.1) and Columbia junior Quinn Devlin (26:37.1) were the only other runners to get in ahead of Fordham's fourth man, O'Brien.
There was similar delight in the Met ICs for the women of Rutgers.
In fact, they were even more dominating in their 5K race than the Fordham men were in their five-miler.
Putting four runners in the top five - junior Paige Senatore won it all in 18:19.4, senior Allison Payenski ran third in 18:35.5, freshman Megan Coakley fourth in 18:37.7 and senior Brianna Deming fifth in 18:42.5 - Coach James Robinson's Scarlet Knights made it a runaway in taking their first Met title since 1997.
After these four, all it took was freshman Alexandra Juzwiak's 10th in 19:02.3 for the
Knights to wrap their low-low winning total of 23 points. Only Fordham's second place Brianna Tevnan (18:28.7) was able to break up the Rutgers top four.
Fordham added to its very big day at the Mets with a second-place total of 75, with much-improved Wagner a surprise third at 135, edging NYU and Columbia (who both scored 139) and the balance of the 12-school field. Columbia's women had won this Met crown 11 years in a row but were never a threat this time. Top Lion finisher was sophomore Brittney Wade in 22nd place.
"The women had fantastic performances today," said RU's Robinson. "They all improved about a minute apiece ( from running in the Fordham Fiasco here four weeks ago.)
"Now we'll train (even) more intensely as we set our sights on the Big Ten meet (Nov. 2 in
Iowa City, Iowa.)"
In distance coach/assistant coach Jan Merrill-Moran (the Olympian and multi-national champion and record-breaker), Rutgers has one of the most honored coaches in the nation.
"Oh, they know I was in the Olympics, but I don't think knew I (once) ran a 16:10 on this course," said Merrill-Morin.
"They just don't know all the details. I don't really mention it to them,
That's not important now.
"Being in the Big 10, that will raise the stakes for everybody. We've got to raise the intensity and build the mindset. They all know that now."
For sure, nationally-ranked Iona sat this one out and Columbia's first-string was absent,
but that took nothing away from it for the men of Fordham.
"Coming in here, all the freshmen were excited," said Fordham second finisher Slattery. "And so were the upper classmen. We have the talent this year, and we definitely have the attitude. We're looking for big things.
"The three of us (he, O'Connor and Turi) ran together most of the way. We worked our way up and made it all work.
"Quincy ran great, he broke it up on downhill part of the back hills, he created a gap and just stuck it out.
"Coach Dewey has had us doing a lot of strength work. We had a great recruiting class.
No wonder we're pretty excited right now. "
"I was just trying to win for the team, that was my whole focus," said O'Connor, who gave Fordham its second Met individual title in four years; Julian Saad had won the Met (as well as the IC4A) crown in 2011, before completing his college career as a graduate student at
Providence.
"We're building back the great Fordham tradition,"said O'Connor. "Oh, definitely."
"I always like challenges," said women's champion Senatore of RU.
"I felt really good after that first mile mark, and broke away from the Fordham girl (Tevnan) with about 1,200 meters to go.
"Now it's time to look ahead. I think we're confident we'll do pretty well in the Big 10."
Jennifer Heggie, back in 1993, was the first Rutgers woman to win the Met title.
Senatore becomes the fourth RU woman to win it since the turn into the 21st century. Olympian-to-be Julie Culley took the 2000 and 2002 Met titles, and was followed by Allison
Caruana in 2006 and Brianna Deming in 2011.
After sitting out the 2013 season - to focus on her pharmacy studies - Deming was back in the RU lineup again and finished a solid fifth. Yes, she had the right prescription in this one
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