Meet: America East XC Championships
 
Location: Orono, Maine
 
Course: Penobscot Valley Country Club
 
Results
 
Distance: 5K
 
Team Scoring: 6th, 126 points
 
Short Story: Amanda Chambers finishes third overall to lead the UAlbany women to a sixth-place finish at the 2023 America East championship meet.
 
How it Happened

• Amanda Chambers earned All-Conference First Team honors, placing third overall in the women's championship 5K in a personal-best 17:40.13. 
• Chambers held with the lead pack early in the race before falling back slightly to fourth place through the 2K and 4K markers.  She surged in the final 1K to claim her third-place finish.
• Chambers' finishing time is the ninth-best in program history, measured by average mile pace.  Her performance on Friday was the ninth-fastest for a Great Dane at America East Championships since the 2008 season, and she earns the highest finish in the championship race for a Great Dane since Hannah Reinhardt won back-to-back titles in 2018 and 2019.
• Alondra Cruz-Delgado finished second for the Great Danes, crossing the line in 16th place in 18:43.63.  Cruz-Delgado improved seven spots in the final kilometer.
• The women's scoring gap was 2:10.92.
• Binghamton won the team title, their first in program history, scoring 69 points to outpace runner-up Vermont's 77.  The Bearcats placed two runners in the top-seven.
• UMass Lowell's Mary-Kate Finn won the individual title, finishing in 17:17.18, ahead of Maine's Megan Randall's 17:25.27.

Next: UAlbany returns to Van Cortlandt Park on November 10 for the NCAA Northeast Regional XC Championships.