Men's XC Heads to Regionals

West Point, N.Y. – The Army West Point men's cross country team will be sending 12 runners to the NCAA Regionals at Van Cortlandt Park in New York, N.Y on Friday.

Last weekend at the Patriot League Championships, the Black Knights pulled out a surprising second place victory. This is the highest Army has placed at the Patriot League Championships since 2008.

NCAA Northeast Regionals
Time: 12:00 p.m.
Length: 10,000 Meters
Army Top Finisher from the 2015 NCAA Northeast Regionals: Jacob Fong, 79 (32:13.6)
Twitter: @ArmyWP_TrackXC
Results: TFRRS.org
Teams (41): Albany, Army, Binghamton, Boston College, Boston, Brown, Bryant, Buffalo, Canisius, Central Connecticut, Colgate, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Fairfield, Fordham, Hartford, Harvard, Hofstra, Holy Cross, Iona, Maine, Manhattan, Marist, New Hampshire, Niagara, Northeastern, Providence, Quinnipiac, Rhode Island, Sacred Heart, Siena, St. Bonaventure, St. Francis (N.Y.), Stony Brook, Syracuse, UMass Amherst, Vermont, Wagner, Yale, Connecticut.
National Rankings: Syracuse (5), Iona (7), Providence (30)
Northeast Regional Rankings:
1 – Syracuse                     6 – Yale                        11 – Army
2 – Iona                             7 – Cornell                    12 – Stony Brook
3 – Providence                   8 – Northeastern            13 – Maine
4 – Columbia                     9 – Buffalo                     14 – Albany
5 – Dartmouth                   10 – Brown                     15 – Boston

Army Runners (top results from Patriot League Championships):
Johnny Valeri – fourth (25:01.5)
Jacob Fong – Eighth (25:08.0)
Robbie Santoyo – 16th (25:28.5)
William Bailey – 23rd (25:45.5)

Coaches Comments:
"We are heading to the NCAA Regional, which is our first 10K meet of the year, and we have been preparing for this. I think that it will be something that our guys are ready to handle and tackle. We are going back to Van Cortlandt Park for this 10K where we competed earlier in the year, and we ran pretty well when we went down there. That is a part of the reason that we competed in the Iona "Meet of Champions", we wanted to compete at the site of our regional championships and we now know the course so there is familiar territory there."

"We have competed quite a bit against the teams that we are going to face. There are approximately 40 teams in this field, and our guys are used to running in races with a big field of competitors, so I don't think that will be an issue. We are running some of our freshman so it will be interesting to see how they respond to 10K versus 8K. They have done a great job in training, and I think that we will be competitive in the 40 team field."

UP NEXT:
Qualifying athletes will travel to Terre Haute, Ind., for the NCAA Championships on Nov. 19.

For more information on Army West Point men's cross country, visit GoArmyWestPoint.com and follow @ArmyWP_TrackXC on Twitter.

Men's XC Heads to Regionals

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Players Mentioned

William Bailey

Jacob Fong

Robbie Santoyo

John Valeri

Army West Point Athletics