Lehigh to Host 2025 Paul Short Run Thursday and Friday

BETHLEHEM, Pa. – The annual Paul Short Run introduced by ASICS is as soon as once more upon us and is about to be hosted on Lehigh University’s Goodman Campus this upcoming weekend. This would be the 51st working of the annual meet.

The Paul Short Run will as soon as once more be cut up up over the course of two days, with highschool races happening on Thursday, October 2 and school races happening on Friday, October 3. This 12 months, greater than 7,000 complete athletes will compete, representing over 600 completely different excessive faculties and schools. Six highschool races can be run on Thursday whereas eight school races will happen on Friday.

The Paul Short Run is in honor of the late Paul Short who served as Lehigh’s Business Manager and Assistant Director of Athletics for 29 years. During his tenure at Lehigh, Short grew to become an avid fan of Lehigh cross nation and observe and discipline. He was a 1934 graduate of Lehigh and Roger S. Penske/Lehigh Athletics Hall of Fame inductee in 2000 who excelled as a soccer, wrestling, baseball and lacrosse student-athlete.

In 1969, former Lehigh cross nation and observe and discipline head coach John Covert organized the meet with simply seven groups competing. In 1981, the ladies joined the Paul Short Run, working a 5K which ultimately modified to a 6K in 2000. 

The Wingate Bulldogs males’s cross nation workforce took dwelling first place within the Gold 8k race, their first within the meet’s historical past, with solely 30 complete factors in a pool of 44 groups. All 5 of their scoring runners completed within the high 11. The Bulldogs have been adopted by Harvard in second place (95) and Utah State in third (109). Utah State’s Camren Todd claimed the person championship with a time of 23:18.8 adopted by Wingate’s Hamza Chahid and Lukas Ehrle in second (23:19.1) and third (23:28.7) respectively.

The ladies’s Gold 6K race was received by Harvard, ending the day with a workforce rating of 134. They have been adopted by Connecticut, who claimed second place with 148 factors, whereas Princeton completed third (155) within the workforce outcomes. Connecticut’s Chloe Thomas completed first with a time of 19:23.8 adopted by Boston University’s Vera Sjoberg in second (19:56.2) and Northeastern’s Abigail Hassman in third (20:01.5).

In the Boys’ High School Brown 5K race, Conestoga completed first as a workforce (142) whereas Daniel Gordon of Saint Joseph’s Prep claimed the first-place prize (15:40.6). The Girls’ Brown 5K was received by Radnor (203), simply edging out Monroe Woodbury (215). Tri-Valley’s Anna Furman was the race’s high total finisher (18:17.6). South Western received the Boys’ White 5K (118 factors) and Mason Kresloff took dwelling first place (16:06.7). South Western (72 factors) and their very own Lyla Eltz (18:25.2) have been the leaders within the Girls’ White 5K race. Penncrest received the Boys’ Gold 5k race with 209 factors, and Carter Smith of Mifflin County was the primary total finisher at 15:04.5. The winner of the Girls’ Gold 5k race was Haverford (138), with Harboro-Horsham’s Lillian Dicola took the win (17:16.9)

 

LOCATION:

Lehigh University – Goodman Campus Cross Country Course

Goodman Drive

Bethlehem, PA 18015

 

ADMISSION:

Admission: Free

Parking: Parking attendants will enable workforce automobiles to park within the designated Stabler heaps. All spectator parking will even be within the Stabler heaps at $10.00 per car. Cash is most popular and is the quickest technique, however bank cards are additionally accepted. Spectators are suggested to reach early to remember to see the whole race.

RESULTS:

Official outcomes can be posted electronically on LehighSports.com/PaulShort. Live outcomes can be obtainable on Leonetiming.com.

 

MEDIA:

All media members wishing to acquire a parking go or credential ought to contact Ryan Lazev, Sports Communications Graduate Assistant ([email protected]). All credential requests must be despatched NO LATER than Wednesday, October 1 at 5 p.m.

PAST CHAMPIONS:

Men’s

Army:  1986

Ath. Attic:  1977

Brown: 1987

Georgetown: 2003, 2004, 2005, 2015

Indiana: 2009, 2013

Iona: 1995, 2016

James Madison: 1999

Kansas: 1990

Lehigh: 1969

Michigan: 1998

Michigan State: 1997, 1998, 2000

Navy: 1982, 1984, 2014

North Carolina: 2021, 2022

Oklahoma: 2011

Penn State: 1979, 1980, 1981, 1994, 2001

Providence: 1992

Utah State: 2017, 2018

Villanova: 1975, 1976, 1978, 1991, 1993, 1996, 2006, 2007, 2012

Virginia: 2010                                                                                                                                                    

West Virginia: 1985, 1988

William and Mary: 2002

Wingate: 2024

Wisconsin: 1983, 2008

Yale: 1989, 2023

 

Women’s

Air Force: 1988

Columbia: 2005

Cornell: 1998, 2012

Georgetown: 1989, 1990, 1999, 2003, 2010, 2013

Guelph: 2014, 2015

Harvard: 2024

North Carolina: 2022

North Carolina State: 1997

Northern Arizona: 2021

Oregon: 1983

Penn State: 1981, 1982, 1986, 1996, 2001, 2002

Princeton: 2006, 2007

Providence: 1994, 1995, 2011

Tennessee: 2004

Toronto: 1985

Utah State: 2017

Utah Valley: 2023

Villanova: 1984, 1987, 1991, 1992, 1993, 2000

West Virginia: 2008, 2009

Yale: 2016, 2018