Army West Point Athletics
Army West Point
Iona Meet of Champions
Women's Cross Country Posts Second Place Finish at Iona Meet of Champions
September 16, 2022 | Women's Cross Country
| Meet 2 | |
|---|---|
| PLACEMENT | 2nd out of 9 teams |
| DISTANCE | 5K |
| LOCATION | Van Cortlandt Park- Riverdale, NY |
RIVERDALE, N.Y. - Army West Point women's cross country took home second place out of nine at Iona's Meet of Champions. Georgia Jones and Claire Lewis paced the Black Knights with a pair of top-five finishes.
Jones made her prescence known in her first meet of the season, posting a time of 18:25.3 in the 5k race for a fourth-place individual finish. She was followed closely behind by teammate Claire Lewis (5th, 18:43.2) who has had a strong start to the season featuring a second-place individual finish against Maine.
Joanna Halfhill rounded out the Black Knights to place in the top-10, tabbing ninth place behind a 19:06.5 run. The remaining Army runners to produce scores included Laurynn Sisneros (13th, 19:23.2), Sophia Sandy (15th, 19:29.3), Lily Nunnery (17th, 19:31.8) and Catherine McClellan (21st, 19:37.2).
A full list of results from this meet can be found HERE.
Coach's Corner
"Van Cortlandt Park has been the site of countless cross country championship races over the past 100+ years. For our teams today, the Iona Meet of Champions was a chance to compete against some good teams but also to measure ourselves against the history books. We put together a strong but not complete lineup today and I thought that we had a good chance to be competitive at the front of the race. The first mile is flat, the second mile is all up and down while the third mile is flat. As a team we got out into the race and we did a nice job of moving up throughout the hills. Binghamton did a better job up front and that was the difference. Georgia Jones did a nice job of attaching herself to the front of the race and fighting to the line. She had a pretty long layoff from racing going back to last March. Her training build-up has gone pretty well and this was a nice rust buster for her. Claire Lewis got right out into the race and held her position throughout. She has been getting better and better and her consistency today gave us a nice spark. Joanna Halfhill dug deep today and did a nice job of moving through the field in the middle of the race and Laurynn Sisneros put together the most complete race of her young career. On the whole, we did some good things out there and we have a lot we can work on. We will get to put a more complete lineup together going into the Paul Short meet in two weeks and see how we stack up against a larger field of teams." - Mike Smith
Up Next
Army will compete in the Paul Short Invitational, hosted by Lehigh University on Friday, September 30th in Bethlehem, PA.
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