ACC Championships On Deck Friday

Championship season begins this Friday, Oct. 31 for the Syracuse males’s and ladies’s cross nation groups. The Orange will compete on the ACC Cross Country Championships in Louisville, Kentucky hosted by the University of Louisville. It’ll be broadcast on ACCN.

ACC Cross Country Championships
Date: Friday, Oct. 31
Times: W – 9:30 a.m. | M – 10:30 a.m.
Distance: M – 8k | W – 6k
Live Results: Here
Watch: ACCN
Location: Sawyer State Park | Louisville, KY.


ORANGE ENTRIES
The ‘Cuse ladies will race Selma Anderson, Maisie Burns, Emma Eastman, Beatriz Fernandes, Jayden Harberts, Alycia Hart, Madeline Heintz, Nyah Hernandez, Carmen Luisi and Olivia Shattuck.

The males will observe with Connell Alford, Benne Anderson, Ben Gabelman, Assaf Harari, Sam Lawler, Matthew Neill, Sam Ricchiuti, Ruben Rojas Betanzos, Louis Small and Peter Walsdorf.

MEET PREVIEW:
Heading into the convention championship weekend, no league has extra ranked squads on this week’s USTFCCCA Poll than the ACC.

On the boys’s aspect, seven of the nation’s prime 27 applications are set to compete. The No. 6 Syracuse males will race amongst a extremely aggressive set of ranked squads: No. 4 Virginia, No. 12 Wake Forest, No. 16 Notre Dame, No. 23 North Carolina, No. 27 Virginia Tech and No.27 Stanford.

The ladies’s ballot options a number of ranked rivals. The Orange ladies will tackle No. 2 NC State, No. 5 Notre Dame, No. 13 Stanford, No.15 Virginia, No. 28 Wake Forest, and No. 30 Boston College.

ACC HISTORY:
The Syracuse males’s cross-country group has completed first or second at this meet in 10 of their 12 seasons within the league, together with six league titles in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2019.

The ladies’s group clinched a fourth-place end within the 2023 occasion, this system’s prime end since 2021, the place additionally they took fourth.

Last season, the Syracuse males’s cross nation group positioned fifth on the ACC Championships, the primary season of the expanded 18-team league. The ladies took eighth. Three Orange males and two ladies earned All-ACC honors, with Sam Lawler, Assaf Harari and Alex Comerford receiving the excellence for the boys, and Savannah Roark and Emma Eastman claiming the award for the ladies by inserting contained in the top-21.