Introduction

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.

RPI athletes strong off the field

The Liberty League announced its All-Academic Team, and 69 RPI fall student-athletes received the honor. The fall sports include men’s and women’s cross country, field hockey, football, men’s golf, men’s and women’s soccer, and women’s tennis. To be recognized by the Liberty League, a student-athlete must maintain a 3.20 GPA and have at least sophomore athletic and academic standing.

Men’s soccer’s Ed Sellitto along with the football team’s Shawn Herrmann, Carl Harding, and Grant Cochran were selected to the 2004 District 1 College Division All-Academic First Team in their respective sports. Sellitto, a chemical engineer, maintained a perfect 4.0 GPA for the second straight year while also scoring three goals and recording an assist for the Red Hawks this season.

Herrmann is dual major in aerospace and mechanical engineering with a 3.86 GPA while Harding boasts a 3.47 GPA in industrial management engineering. Cochran has a 3.8 in biomedical engineering.

Club hosts first tournament

The RPI Badminton Club successfully hosted the Fall 2004 RPI-Syracuse University badminton competition on the past Saturday, November 6 in the ’87 Gym. The competition consists of 15 official best-of-three matches, including 10 men’s double’s, two women’s double’s, one mixed double, one men’s single and one women’s single. RPI won the competition 12-3. More than 30 members from RPI’s club participated in this event. Besides enthusiastic students, Professor Malik Magdon-Ismail from the computer science department won the men’s single and two men’s double matches.

As the first inter-college badminton tournament at RPI, the RPI-Syracuse competition started in fall of 2003 and is scheduled to be held at RPI in the fall and Syracuse in the spring. It has become a very important event to the both clubs and significantly contributed to skill improvement and inter-club friendship development.

Jie Wan and Gehua Yang contributed to this report.