Meet: IC4A & ECAC XC Championships
 
Location: Bronx, N.Y.
 
Course: Van Cortlandt Park
 
Results
 
Distance: Women – 6K | Men – 8K
 
Team Scoring: Women – 13th, 313 points | Men – 22nd, 613 points
 
Short Story: Tess Fitzmaurice paces the UAlbany women for the ninth-straight race to start her career in the Great Danes' first time at IC4A & ECAC XC Championships in more than a decade.
 
How it Happened

• The women's 6K race began the day, where the UAlbany women placed 13th in the team standings with 313 points.  Tess Fitzmaurice was UAlbany's top finisher for the ninth-straight race to start her career, placing 18th overall in 21:52.9.
• Amanda Chambers finished second for UAlbany, placing 33rd overall in 22:13.3.
• Former America East rival Stony Brook claimed the women's team title, scoring 105 points to outpace runner-up Richmond who finished with 177 points.  UMass Lowell's Kenzie Doyle won the individual title in 20:45.1.
• The women's scoring gap was 1:12.3.
• Ryan Russell was the men's top finisher for the first time in his career, placing 106th overall in 26:03.7.  Freshman Kirk Dawkins finished next for UAlbany, crossing the line in 130th in 26:16.6.
• Antonio Beltran and Brandon Garcia, UAlbany's top-two runners from last season, placed 157th in 26:30.2 and 170th in 26:40.8, respectively.
• Princeton took the men's team title, scoring 33 points, placing three in the top four and gapping second-place Cornell's 66 points.  The Tigers also claimed the individual title, when Anthony Monte crossed the line in 23:52.8.
• The men's scoring gap was 1:46.6.
• The Great Danes will return to Van Cortlandt Park for the NCAA Northeast Regional XC Championship meet in November.

Next: The Great Danes' 2022 championship season begins in earnest in two weeks at the America East XC Championship meet in Baltimore.