PA XC Guys Year In Review

2010 NCAA Championships
Penn State brought a significant amount of PA alumns with them to the National Championships including Kyle Dawson and Vince McNally who finished 2nd and 3rd at the Regional meet. Dawson was the top PA alumn at the meet finishing in 64th. McNally finished 92nd in the race. Both sported fantastic mustaches in attempts to help the team with the stashies team competition sponsored by flotrack. Kyle's brother Owen also aided Penn State, finishing 203rd overall. Former Seneca Valley stand-out Chris Cipro snagged 213th for the Nittany Lions while Freshman standout Nick Scarpello represented PA's class of 2010 well finishing in 226th.

Keith Capecci, former PA district one cross country champion finished 127th for Villanova, while Max Kaulbach, formerly of Germantown Friends, helped the Princeton Tigers finish 12th as a team with his 145th place finish overall. Not far behind him was Georgetown's Mark Dennin, former Penn Relays champion and Footlocker All-American. He finished 147th. His teammate Ben Furcht finished 190th for the Hoyas, just one spot ahead of Josh Hibbs of Iona.

On the girl's side, former state champion Carly Seymour ran a fantastic race to finish 48th. Natalie Bower finished an impressive 158th for Penn State. Sophia Zieman took 193rd, teaming up with Seymour to help score points for Duke.

At the DII Level ...

Alex Monroe had a fantastic season as a freshman at Lock Haven, capping off his run by finished 32nd at the NCAA Championships. He was the top runner for Lock Haven in the meet. The team finished 11th. His teammate, Nick Hilton formerly of Exeter, finished 55th to help score for the team. Shippensburg, who finished 7th as a team, was helped by a strong finish from Parkland Alumn Matt Gillette who finished 54th, just ahead of Hilton.

Neely Spence won the National Championship! Running for Shippensburg, Spence ran 20:41.2 to win by about 15 seconds.

At the DIII Level ...

Omar Hyjek excelled for Dickinson as he led the team to a 5th place finish overall. He finished 43rd. Eric Arnold helped Haverford claim the national title, finishing 34th overall.