Cross Nation to Journey to North Carolina for Fire Tower Project Races

BOONE, N.C. – The College of Charleston cross nation groups will journey to compete on the Fire Tower Project on Friday, October 3 hosted by App State in Boone, N.C. The males will compete at 5:00 p.m. working an 8k and the ladies will observe at 5:40 p.m. working their first 6k of the season. 

Other groups entered within the occasions are App State, The Citadel, Coastal Carolina, Erskine, Gardner-Webb, Lees-McRae, Lenoir-Rhyne, Milligan, Radford, SCAD Savannah, William & Mary and James Madison.  

This might be Charleston’s second time touring to Boone this fall, the primary time being in August for the Covered Bridge Invitational. The males had been fourth of 5 groups, and the ladies had been fourth of six groups. 

Most not too long ago, The College’s cross nation groups competed in-state on the Chanticleer Challenge hosted by Coastal Carolina on September 19. 

On the ladies’s facet, the group scored 69 factors and defeated CAA foe, UNCW. Cara Grace Phillips crossed the road first for the ladies with a time of 18:04.59 inserting tenth whereas scoring ten factors for the Cougars. In Conway, Lucy Alexander and Gail Vaikutis competed of their first ever collegiate races. Alexander positioned twenty first and Vaikutis positioned twenty seventh. The ladies completed third of eight groups. 

On the lads’s facet, Declan Byrne set a brand new faculty file within the 8k with a time of 24:33.75, serving to the lads to a 3rd place end out of 9 colleges on the Chanticleer Challenge. Adrian Miller, Thomas Flaig, Will Buckley, Andrew Catapano, and Roger Brown additionally discovered their manner into the varsity’s 8k Top Ten. 

Charleston has competed within the Fire Tower Project races thrice earlier than. The males have positioned seventh in 2021, 2022, and 2024. The ladies positioned third in 2022 and 2021 whereas inserting fifth in 2024. 

Charleston’s Participants (Women) 

Lucy Alexander, Alyssa Boucher, Cayden Crismon, Kiley DeFusco, Jeorgie Gavalas, Andie Harding, Caroline Himstreet, Bella Hudson, Lydia Metz, Abby Mogg, Katie O’Toole, Cara Grace Phillips, Lauren Resnick, Savannah Stoutt, Aine Trapp, Gail Vaikutis 

Charleston’s Participants (Men)

Ben Ashmore, Roger Brown, Will Buckley, Declan Byrne, Andrew Catapano, Robert DiMedio, Andrew Fielding, Thomas Flaig, Tucker Green, Nathan Hallar, Riley Hugues, Adrian Miller, Evan Mitchell, Finn Myatt, Kyle Nitsche

Live outcomes for the races may be discovered here.  

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