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Post by purplehaze on Sept 1, 2022 11:49:03 GMT -5
Both men's and women's seasons open tmro - rosters have just been posted and they are very thin on numbers - and there are only 2 men frosh and 3 women frosh (and nothing about any of them under 'bio')
If this doesn't change there should be some reason for the small rosters
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Post by sader1970 on Sept 1, 2022 12:20:19 GMT -5
Only 2 frosh men Xcountry?!! Then I met them both on Move-In Day. They told me they had their first competition on Friday but when I asked was it a dual meet or something larger, they looked at each other and hesitatingly said "I think it's an invitational."  They did say they had been on campus something like a month before Move-In Day to train. |
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Post by alum on Sept 2, 2022 8:39:30 GMT -5
Men graduated 7 and women graduated 5 last year. Two women did not return to the team while 7 men did not. Of the men who did not return, one appears to have transferred to Columbia although it does not appear he is running. It is not unusual for a couple more freshmen to show up in the first week so perhaps there will be more.
Coach Kavanagh, in addition to being the director of the entire men's and women's program, was head coach for both men's and women's XC. A new XC head coach, former Irish Olympian Stephanie Reilly, was named a few weeks ago by Coach Alfonso who has taken over the endowed position from Coach Kavanagh
WORCESTER, Mass.— Richard L. Ahern '51 Director of Cross Country and Track and Field Egetta Alfonso has announced updates to the Holy Cross cross country and track and field coaching staff. Stephanie Reilly has been hired as the associate head coach of cross country and long distance for the cross country and track and field programs, while Shawn McCabe has been promoted to a full-time assistant role within the track and field staff.
Reilly joins the Crusaders after spending the last year as an online personal running coach with RunDoyen. Prior to that she spent six years at Providence College as the head women's track and field coach and assistant men's and women's cross country coach. During her stint at Providence, she helped lead the cross country teams to an ECAC Championship and IC4A Championship in 2019. Under her leadership she saw seven individual qualifiers for the NCAA indoor and outdoor track and field championships in 2018-19. The women's cross country team won three straight regional championships from 2015-17 as well as two Big East Championships in 2015 and 2016.
Before her time at Providence, Reilly spent eight years working with the Bryant University men's and women's cross country and track and field teams as their head coach. During her time at Bryant she oversaw the teams jump from Division II to Division I. She also coached 16 athletes to break records, and her women's cross country team placed second in the NEC Cross Country Championship in 2014, while the men's team placed third in 2014.
"Stephanie Reilly comes to us with a wealth of experience and passion for cross country and distance running," Alfonso said. "Her time as an athlete and coach at Providence College and helping to build an emerging Division I program at Bryant University, matched the needs of our program perfectly. Her philosophy of taking care of the whole athlete and individualization of training complements what we're building at Holy Cross. I'm excited to see where she takes our cross country and distance teams."
A graduate of Providence College, she earned her Bachelor of Science in health policy and management in 2001 and her Master of Education in guidance and counseling in 2004. She was named team captain of the track and field team, a member of the Big East championship women's cross country team 1999, and an NCAA provisional qualifier for outdoor track in the 3000 meters. Reilly also earned All-New England honors for cross country in 1998.
"I want to thank Coach Alfonso and the College of the Holy Cross athletic department for this exciting opportunity," Reilly said. "From the moment I stepped foot on campus I was impressed by the dedicated coaches and staff who care so much about helping student-athletes achieve their goals. To be a part of that team and have an opportunity to work with such talented student-athletes is a dream come true. I'm looking forward to getting to work."
Reilly has an extensive post-collegiate competition resume as she participated in the 2012 London Olympics in the 3000m steeplechase event. She also competed in the 3000m steeplechase at the World Championships in Daegu, South Korea in 2011, the European Championship in Barcelona, Spain in 2010 and Helsinki, Finland in 2012 where she was a finalist. Additionally, she competed in the European Team Championships in Izmir, Turkey in 2011.
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Post by longsuffering on Sept 2, 2022 9:35:42 GMT -5
Great pick, HC is weaning itself off of giving people their first head coaching gig at Holy Cross. I consider her a head coach equivalent for cross country despite her title.
Go Cross cross country!
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Post by alum on Sept 2, 2022 12:12:23 GMT -5
Men were 4th of 15 behind Northeastern, Brown and BU. (Lots of D2 and D3 schools in the field) Women were also 4th of 15 behind Northeastern, BU and Brown.
Eve Fuerbach (PL 1st team last year) was top finisher for women finishing 5th behind four runners from Northeastern.
William Shimitsch was top for men in 16th in 16:13 for 5K. The NU runner who won by fifteen seconds in 15:08 has run 13:56 for that distance on the track to give you an idea of the relative difficulty of the course.
I would say that both teams finished exactly where one would expect.
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Post by longsuffering on Sept 2, 2022 12:18:25 GMT -5
So, no regression with the coaching change which hopefully means things improve as the new coach settles in.
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Post by bfoley82 on Sept 2, 2022 22:48:04 GMT -5
So, no regression with the coaching change which hopefully means things improve as the new coach settles in. None of the top D-3 teams (aka NESCAC) were there. |
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Sept 3, 2022 15:38:40 GMT -5
So, no regression with the coaching change which hopefully means things improve as the new coach settles in. None of the top D-3 teams (aka NESCAC) were there. NESCAC fall sports start much later than everyone else, right? I seem to recall they don't have pre-season camp prior to regular students arriving. And first week of football games was always something like last week of September or first week of October (8 game season w/ no playoffs participation). |
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Post by bfoley82 on Sept 3, 2022 16:24:48 GMT -5
None of the top D-3 teams (aka NESCAC) were there. NESCAC fall sports start much later than everyone else, right? I seem to recall they don't have pre-season camp prior to regular students arriving. And first week of football games was always something like last week of September or first week of October (8 game season w/ no playoffs participation). Fact....The first Amherst football game is September 17th. They have field hockey I know at least on 9/10 |
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Post by longsuffering on Sept 3, 2022 18:11:37 GMT -5
None of the top D-3 teams (aka NESCAC) were there. NESCAC fall sports start much later than everyone else, right? I seem to recall they don't have pre-season camp prior to regular students arriving. And first week of football games was always something like last week of September or first week of October (8 game season w/ no playoffs participation). I seem to recall they raise their pinky when they sip from a tea cup, too. 🙂 I'm glad HC and the PL have at least one foot in the real world by letting all their student athletes compete and achieve the most they are capable of, including NCAA football tournament participation. |
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Post by bfoley82 on Sept 3, 2022 18:15:36 GMT -5
NESCAC fall sports start much later than everyone else, right? I seem to recall they don't have pre-season camp prior to regular students arriving. And first week of football games was always something like last week of September or first week of October (8 game season w/ no playoffs participation). I seem to recall they raise their pinky when they sip from a tea cup, too. 🙂 I'm glad HC and the PL have at least one foot in the real world by letting all their student athletes compete and achieve the most they are capable of, including NCAA football tournament participation. They also have ZERO non-conference football games.... |
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Post by longsuffering on Sept 3, 2022 18:41:02 GMT -5
I seem to recall they raise their pinky when they sip from a tea cup, too. 🙂 I'm glad HC and the PL have at least one foot in the real world by letting all their student athletes compete and achieve the most they are capable of, including NCAA football tournament participation. They also have ZERO non-conference football games.... I went to a Middlebury-WPI football game in 1970 in Worcester when my high school classmate, the late Charlie O'Sullivan was a running back for Middlebury. Maybe that's the last time those schools played football as the NESCAC was formed in 1971. When searching for that game I noticed that the four New England Teams participating in the University Division Men's soccer NCAA tournament in 1970 were Harvard, Brown, Middlebury and Worcester Tech. Springfield College was also selected but turned it down because the Trustees had voted that all "Indians" teams would only participate in College Division NCAA tournament games. So when HC played colleges that are currently D-2 and 3 back in the day, they weren't necessarly weak teams. |
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Sept 4, 2022 11:06:15 GMT -5
I seem to recall they raise their pinky when they sip from a tea cup, too. 🙂 I'm glad HC and the PL have at least one foot in the real world by letting all their student athletes compete and achieve the most they are capable of, including NCAA football tournament participation. They also have ZERO non-conference football games.... Correct. Up until recently they only played 8 regular season games. Its a ten team league so everyone missed one conference team each year. I just looked up Williams schedule and it looks like they play 9 games now, so a full NESCAC round robin. |
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Post by alum on Sept 10, 2022 13:57:42 GMT -5
At Nassaney Inv at Bryant today.
Men were 3 of 8. Merrimack won. HC three points behind Bryant. Shimshick and Vandermark were 9th and 10th for HC
Eve Feuerbach won the women’s race by 30 seconds. HC finished 4th seven points behind Brown in 3rd. Bryant won.
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Post by alum on Oct 8, 2022 14:54:56 GMT -5
Senior Eve Feuerbach wins the New Englands. Women were 10/18. Men were 8/20
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Oct 8, 2022 19:36:31 GMT -5
Fantastic performance by Feuerbach!!!
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