INDIANAPOLIS --The NCAA Division III Men’s and Women’s Track and Field Committee announced Sunday the team and individual qualifiers for the 2014 NCAA Division III Men’s and Women’s Cross Country Championships.
In order to be eligible to participate in the championships, teams and individuals must qualify in their respective NCAA regions.
Thirty-two teams were selected to participate in each championship. The top two, seven-person teams automatically qualified from each of the eight regions, for a total of 16 teams. Sixteen additional teams were selected at-large.
Fifty-six individuals, the first seven athletes from each region who are not a part of a qualifying team, were selected to participate in each championship.
Wilmington College (Ohio) and the Warren County Convention and Visitor’s Bureau are co-hosting the championships, November 22, at the Golf Center at King’s Island in Mason, Ohio. The men’s race will begin at 11 a.m. Eastern time followed by the women’s race at 12:30 p.m. Eastern time.
The following teams and individuals were selected to the championships:
Men’s Automatic Qualifying Teams
Amherst
Bridgewater (Virginia)
Carnegie Mellon
Claremont Mudd-Scripps
Colby
Emory
Loras
Mount Union
North Central (Illinois)
Pomona-Pitzer
St. Lawrence
St. Olaf
SUNY Geneseo
Wabash
Widener
Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Men’s At-large Teams
Calvin
Carleton
Central (Iowa)
Dickinson
Haverford
Johns Hopkins
Middlebury
MIT
Rose-Hulman
St. Thomas (Minnesota)
SUNY Cortland
Tufts
Washington U. in St. Louis
Williams
Wisconsin-La Crosse
Wisconsin-Stout
Men’s Individual Automatic Qualifiers
Atlantic Region
Matt Giannino, Rochester Institute of Technology
Sebastian Oja, New York University
Zakk Hess, Fredonia State
Jacob Andrews, Rensselaer
Benjamin Fazio, Rensselaer
Sawyer Hitchcock, Ithaca
Jonathan Sewnig, Rowan
Central Region
Thomas Feichtinger, St. John’s (Minnesota)
Chase Moser, Wartburg
Ryan Peterson, Hamline
Bennett Moser, Wartburg
Chris Lawson, St. Scholastica
Jovan Newsum, Saint Mary’s (Minnesota)
Thomas Knobbe, Gustavus Adolphus
Great Lakes Region
Geno Arthur, Oberlin
John Sotos, Ohio Wesleyan
Nathan Rosenbaum, Ohio Northern
Ben Zank, Hope
Tadhg Karski, John Carroll
Joshua Urso, Oberlin
Elliot Thorkelson, John Carroll
Mideast Region
Nate Noll, DeSales
Logan Steiner, Allegheny
Dillon Farrell, Moravian
Alex Price, Susquehanna
Jaryd Flank, Muhlenberg
Dan Gresh, Elizabethtown
Sid Kakkar, Swarthmore
Midwest Region
Jordan Carpenter, Wisconsin-Oshkosh
Ian LaMere, Wisconsin-Platteville
Joel Walden, Wisconsin-Platteville
Will Cross, Elmhurst
Nate Richards, Principia
Michael Frasco, Chicago
Dawson Miller, Wisconsin-Whitewater
New England, Region
Tyler Scheibenpflug, Lyndon State
John Stansel, Bates
Lee Cattanach, Eastern Connecticut State
Tim McGowan, Roger Williams
Avery Wentworth, Bowdoin
Andrew Sukeforth, Bridgewater State
Kevin Hoose, Bowdoin
South/Southeast Region
Ryan Gehman, Eastern Mennonite
Harrison Toney, Roanoke
Victor Pataky, Centre
Alex Noe, Rhodes
Levi Warring, Washington and Lee
Christopher Roberts, Birmingham-Southern
Jacob Landis, Eastern Mennonite
West Region
John Guzman, Occidental
Colin Smith, Occidental
David Santillan, Puget Sound
Yonny Castillo, Willamette
Aditya Bhagavathi, Caltech
Ruben Solorza, Whittier
Bryan Hayes, La Verne
In 2013, St. Olaf won the men’s team championship, marking its first national title. They finished with 84 points, defeating defending champion North Central (Illinois), which finished with 86 points.
Individual honors went to Michael LeDuc of Connecticut College. LeDuc finished 4 seconds ahead of John Crain of North Central (Illinois).
For more information regarding the championships, log on to NCAA.com.
