PSAC Championship Homepage I Women's Preview I Aerial Video

CALIFORNIA (Oct. 18) – The 16 men's cross country teams from around the league will gather at Roadman Park in California on Saturday, Oct. 21, to compete in the 2017 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Championships. 
 
The Vulcans will host the championship meet for the sixth time in school history and for just the fourth time in the last four decades (1988, 1992, 2010, 2017).

HOMEPAGE
A meet homepage has been established to provide all pertinent information about the championship in one location. The page, linked above, includes directions, course maps, course records, previous results, rosters and more.

SCHEDULE
10:00 a.m. - Women's 6,000-meter Race
11:00 a.m. - Men's 8,000-meter Race
12:30 p.m. - Awards Ceremony (Adamson Stadium)
 
LIVE UPDATES
The Cal U Sports Information Office will provide live updates, results and photos through the PSAC Track & Field Twitter account (@PSACTF) throughout the race. Results will be posted as soon as they are available.
 
AWARDS
The top-15 individual finishers will be named All-PSAC First-Team, while finishers 16-30 will be named All-PSAC Second Team. Trophies will be awarded to the top-two teams. A PSAC Champion Scholar will also be awarded at the meet with the winner boasting the highest cumulative GPA of all competitors.
 
PREVIEW I Atlantic Regional Rankings

The men's championship race returns 15 of the top-25 runners from the 2016 PSAC Championships. Shippensburg returns as the reigning-PSAC Champion following its first title since 2010 and ranks first in the latest regional rankings. Edinboro sits second in the recently released Atlantic Region Rankings and returns four of the top-18 runners. IUP rounds out the top three in the region. Each of the top-three teams in the region competed last weekend. Shippensburg won the Carnegie Mellon Invitational while competing alongside 20  schools, including Pitt. Edinboro placed 11th overall out of 31 teams from across the country at the GLVC Conference Crossover in Illinois and IUP finished fourth at the Carnegie Mellon Invitational without its top two runners. 
 
The Raiders swept both the PSAC and regional titles last year and will be relying on Alex Balla, Calvin Conrad-Kline, Robert Moser and Dominic Stroh. The Fighting Scots return the runner-up from the league championships last year in Bryan Geeher, while Corey Wefing (11th), Jon Gusew (15th), Jared Hallow (17th) and Gene Baritot (18th) all placed in the top 20 of the field. IUP boasts a top-five finisher from last year in Austin Cooper, who placed fourth overall.

Other contenders in the race include Steve Maine, who placed eighth and helped Kutztown finish fifth in the team standings, Jeremy Parsons of Slippery Rock, who has been the team's top runner this season after placing ninth at last year's meet. The host Vulcans will be led by sophomore Brett George.
 
TOP 10 TEAMS FROM 2016
(Team, Points)
1.  Shippensburg, 47
2.  Lock Haven, 54
3.  Edinboro, 63
4. Bloomsburg, 147
5.  Kutztown, 189
6.  East Stroudsburg, 196
7.  Mercyhurst, 234
8.  Slippery Rock, 237
9.  Indiana, 239
10. Cal U, 280
 
TOP RETURNING FINISHERS FROM 2016
(Name, School, 2016 Finish)
Bryan Geehrer, BORO, 2
Austin Cooper, IUP, 4
Alex Balla, SHIP, 7
Steve Maine, KUTZ, 8
Jeremy Parsons, SRU, 9
Corey Wefing, BORO, 11
Calvin Conrad-Kline, SHIP, 12
Daniel Neiswender, BLOOM, 14
Jonathan Gusew, BORO, 15
Jared Hallow, BORO, 17
Eugene Baritot, BORO, 18
Robert Moser, SHIP, 19
Dominic Stroh, SHIP, 20
Sam Signor, LHU, 22
Patrick Miller, LHU, 23
 
TOP CONTENDERS
Below are names of those expected to be near the front of the pack, as well as least one individual expected to lead their respective team.
 

• Bloomsburg – Daniel Neiswender
• California – Brett George
• Cheyney – Michael Cusatis
• Edinboro – Bryan Geehrer, Corey Wefing, Jon Gusew, Jared Hallow, Gene Baritot
• East Stroudsburg – Jeremy Rapposelli
• Gannon – Robert Danielson
• Indiana – Austin Cooper
• Kutztown – Steve Maine
• Lock Haven – Sam Signor, Patrick Miller
• Mansfield – Ryan Clifford
• Mercyhurst – Jacob Eneix
• Pitt-Johnstown – Killian McNally
• Seton Hill – Jerrod Sunderland
• Slippery Rock – Jeremy Parsons
• Shippensburg – Alex Balla, Calvin Conrad-Kline, Robert Moser, Dominic Stroh
• West Chester – Dylan Smiley

 
ALL-TIME CHAMPIONSHIP HISTORY
A total of seven teams in the PSAC have captured at least one title. Edinboro leads all programs with a dominating 29 titles dating back to the first championship in 1958. A look at the number of championships for each program can be found below.
 
29 - Edinboro
8 - West Chester
8 - Lock Haven
6 - Slippery Rock
5 - IUP
2 - Shippensburg
1 - Millersville
 
RESULTS
Results will be posted to the home meet page as soon as they are available.
 
PHOTO GALLERY
A photo gallery from the race will be available on the homepage within a few days after the meet. Links to the galleries will be shared on the home meet page and on the @PSACTF Twitter page when posted.