Lauren Carter ended her successful cross-country season in an impressive fashion in Canton, N.Y. at the NCAA Atlantic regional this Saturday, taking 14th overall in a time of 23:12.6, leading the women’s team to a 19th place finish. Will Kohut finished 65th in 26:57.3 to the lead the men to a 17th place showing.
Greg Mariano, the men’s team leader all season, struggled, taking the 127th position with a time over the 27 minute plateau.
The College of New Jersey took the men’s title and SUNY Geneseo took the women’s. The SUNY Geneseo men’s and women’s cross country teams completed a clean sweep of the New York State meet the previous Saturday, on November 6, on their home track in Geneseo. The host team, the Blue Knights, won both the men’s and women’s team championships while Geneseo’s Ted Turner (24:56.2) and Renne Catalano (18:28.9) took the individual titles.
Rensselaer’s Greg Mariano’s time of 27:04.1 was good enough for 22nd as he led the men’s team to a eighth place finish in the 15-team race. Lauren Carter posted a team best 19:37.5 taking the 26th spot overall, but that would do little to help RPI’s overall position as the Engineers fell to 12th place, their lowest team finish of the season.
