Cross Nation Opens Season on Saturday

The Syracuse cross nation season begins on Saturday, because the Orange packages look to take their first step in direction of continued success on the NCAA Championships.

MEET INFO:

Start time: W – 11 a.m. | M – 11:45 a.m.

Live Results: Here

Distance: Men: 6k | Women: 5k

Location: Hamilton, N.Y. | Lang XC Course

ORANGE UPDATE

‘Cuse opens its season with each packages using multi-year streaks of qualifying for the NCAA Championship. The Orange males boast the nation’s fourth-longest lively streak, with 16-straight appearances. The stretch consists of successful at the very least one championship (ACC, Northeast Region or NCAA) and/or ending within the top-10 of the NCAA Championships yearly since 2009 (excluding the COVID season).

The SU girls have made four-straight appearances within the NCAA Championship, tying for the longest streak in program historical past (2008-11).

SYRACUSE ENTRIES

The Syracuse girls will race a big group on Saturday, with 16 runners entered into the sector. They are: Lauren Augustyn, Maisie Burns, Sarah Cobb, Mackenzie Cook, Beatriz Fernandes, Grace Finnegan, Leah Futey, Jayden Harberts, Alycia Hart, Madeline Heintz, Luise Hilzbleck, Gretta Johnson, Sarah Lawson, Carmen Luisi, Ella Masem and Olivia Shattuck. If the Orange race the total entry checklist, it’s going to be the Orange debuts for Burns, Cook, Hart, Hitzbleck, Johnson, Luisi and Masem.

The males will run Connell Alford, Omar Alsaidi, Eamon Burke, Asher Danielson, Sam Ricchiuti, Ruben Rojas Betanzos, Louis Small and Drew Zundell. The race will likely be Small’s ‘Cuse debut. Additionally, two members of the lads’s squad – Charles Guerrera and Andrew Walton – will likely be operating unattached on Saturday.

HARRY LANG HISTORY

The Harry Lang Invitational has been the staple for Syracuse to open the season at, having competed at this occasion for its season opener in 14 of the last-15 years (the 2020 COVID impacted season being the lone exception). The Orange males have gained this occasion yearly since 2016. The girls have taken six of the last-eight victories during which Syracuse has competed.

RANKING THE ORANGE

Syracuse enters the season as one-of-six ACC squads to be ranked in each the lads’s and ladies’s USTFCCCA Poll. The Syracuse males open the yr ranked No. 12, whereas the ladies test in at No. 29.

Both packages have been ranked in 15-straight polls, a streak that dates again to the 2023 season. The Syracuse males have been ranked in each ballot since week six of the 2021 marketing campaign.