FGCU XC: Paul Short Run Preview

The FGCU men's and women's cross country teams prepare for their next meet as they compete in the Paul Short Run in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, hosted by Lehigh University. The meet will take place on the Goodman Campus Cross Country Course.

Last Time Out:
The Eagles competed in the Fordham Fiasco on Sept. 8. The men finished third out of 13 teams, while the women finished seventh.

On the men's side, it was sophomore Lucas Kiprotich that had the best finish. Kiprotich finished third with a time of 26:07.58. Other runners on the men's team that finished in the top 25 are grad student Ronny Greenup (18th- 27:03.76), freshman Austin Redondo (21st- 27:13.45) and sophomore Boniface Mutai (23rd- 27:21.17).

On the women's side, freshman Jillian Felton lead the way with a 22nd place finish with a time of 20:08.36.

Meet Breakdown and History:
The men's 8k race will begin at 11 a.m. while the women's 6k race will commence at 1 p.m.

This will be the 45th taking of the Paul Short Run and will feature 6,000 runners from nearly 450 colleges and high schools expected to compete this year, the largest intercollegiate cross country meet in the nation.

Overall, 131 colleges and universities will be competing in the meet from the NCAA level (58 NCAA DI, 25 NCAA DII, 48 NCAA DIII), United States Collegiate Athletic Association (USCAA: Albany College of Pharmacy and PSU-Brandywine), NAIA (Ave Maria) and the Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS: University of Guleph, a university from Guleph, Ontario, Canada).

Also competing with FGCU from the A-SUN will be UNF.

I mean that is a lot of teams participating. Obviously I know Ave Maria and UNF are competing, and I'm surprised that there are NCAA DII and DIII teams I know about including Concord (DII), St. Leo (DII), Ithaca (DII), Rochester (DIII) and NYIT (DIII).

Teams Participating:
Adelphi (NCAA DII)
Albany
Albany College of Pharmacy (USCAA)
Albright (NCAA DIII)
Allegheny (NCAA DIII)
Alvernia (NCAA DIII)
American
American Int’l (NCAA DII)
Amherst (NCAA DIII)
Army West Point
Ave Maria (NAIA DII)
Binghamton
Boston U
Bucknell
Buffalo
Buffalo State
Cabrini (NCAA DIII)
Campbell
Canisius
Carnegie Mellon (NCAA DIII)
Centenary (N.J.) (NCAA DIII)
Charleston (W.V.) (NCAA DII)
Charleston Southern
Christopher Newport (NCAA DIII)
Coast Guard (NCAA DIII)
Coastal Carolina
Col. of Charleston
Colgate
Columbia
Concord (NCAA DII)
Connecticut
Cornell
Cortland St. (NCAA DIII)
Davis & Elkins (NCAA DII)
Delaware Valley (NCAA DIII)
East Carolina
East Stroudsburg (NCAA DII)
Eastern (NCAA DIII)
Elizabethtown (NCAA DIII)
Felician (NCAA DII)
FGCU
Fordham
Gannon (NCAA DII)
Geneva (NCAA DIII)
George Washington
Georgia
Georgian Court (NCAA DII)
Gettysburg (NCAA DIII)
Goldey-Beacom (NCAA DIII)
Guelph (Canadian Interuniversity Sport)
Gwynedd-Mercy (NCAA DIII)
Hartford
Haverford (NCAA DIII)
High Point
Hofstra
Holy Cross
Indiana (Pa.) (NCAA DII)
Iona
Ithaca (NCAA DIII)
Jefferson (Pa.) (NCAA DIII)
Johns Hopkins
Keystone (NCAA DIII)
King’s (Pa.) (NCAA DIII)
Kutztown (NCAA DII)
La Salle
Lafayette
Lehigh (host)
Lynchburg (NCAA DIII)
Manhattan
Mansfield (NCAA DII)
Marist
Marshall
Middlebury (NCAA DIII)
Misericordia (NCAA DIII)
Molloy (NCAA DII)
Monmouth
Moravian (NCAA DIII)
Mount Olive (NCAA DII)
Mount St. Mary’s
Muhlenberg (NCAA DIII)
New Hampshire
New Paltz St. (NCAA DIII)
Niagara
North Florida
Nyack (NCAA DII)
NYIT (NCAA DII)
NYU (NCAA DIII)
Oberlin (NCAA DIII)
Ole Miss
Oneonta (NCAA DIII)
Pace (NCAA DIII)
Penn
Piedmont (NCAA DIII)
Post (NCAA DII)
PSU-Brandywine (USCAA)
Queen’s University (NCAA DII)
Ramapo (NCAA DIII)
Regis (Colo.) (NCAA DII)
Richmond
Rider
Roanoke (NCAA DIII)
Rochester (NCAA DIII)
Rutgers-Camden (NCAA DIII)
Rutgers-Newark (NCAA DIII)
San Diego
Saint Francis University
Saint Leo (NCAA DII)
Scranton (NCAA DIII)
Seton Hill (NCAA DII)
Shippensburg (NCAA DII)
Siena
So. Conn. St. (NCAA DII)
Springfield (NCAA DIII)
St. Joseph’s (Pa.)
Stockton (NCAA DIII)
Stony Brook
Swarthmore (NCAA DIII)
TCNJ (NCAA DIII)
Temple
Trinity (NCAA DIII)
Tufts (NCAA DIII)
U. of Sciences (NCAA DII)
UMass Lowell
UMBC
Ursinus (NCAA DIII)
Utah State
VCU
Vermont
Virginia Tech
Wake Forest
Wesleyan (NCAA DIII)
West Chester (NCAA DII)
Widener (NCAA DIII)
William and Mary
Yale

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