Women’s Cross Country 10/2/2021 3:49:00 PM
Junior Amy Cantrell (Hailey, Idaho/Wood River) placed 40th in a field of 322 to lead the Gettysburg College women’s cross country team to a 13th-place finish among 29 teams at the Mike Woods Invite hosted by SUNY Geneseo Saturday morning.
Final Team Results – Top 10
| 1 | No. 13 Geneseo | 27 |
| 2 | Case Western | 118 |
| 3 | No. 15 Middlebury | 129 |
| 4 | No. 26 RIT | 136 |
| 5 | No. 30 St. Lawrence | 152 |
| 6 | Ithaca | 160 |
| 7 | Hamilton | 198 |
| 8 | Otterbein | 279 |
| 9 | Messiah | 283 |
| 10 | St. John Fisher | 300 |
Top Performers
Amy Cantrell ’23 – 40th (23:45)
Kate O’Brien ’22 (Lynchburg, Va./Virginia Episcopal School) – 66th (24:12)
The Finish Line
- Gettysburg finished with a team score of 386 points in its biggest race of the season, with three runners finishing in the top-75. The hosts and 13th-ranked SUNY Geneseo won with 27 points, with Kathleen McCarey capturing first place for the Knights.
- Cantrell was timed at 23:45 for the 6,000-meter course to place 40th, setting a new personal-record and cracking the 23-minute mark for the first time of her career.
- O’Brien was the Bullets No. 2 finisher, claiming 66th with a 24:12 time, while junior Amanda Addesso (Cheshire, Conn./Cheshire) was close behind, taking 72nd with a PR time of 24:23.
- Senior Ashlyn Booher (Boiling Springs, Pa./Boiling Springs) was next across the finish line for the Bullets, taking 131st in 25:21, while freshman Emily Trout (Ocean View, Del./Sussex Academy) came in 145th in 25:35 to round out the team scoring.
- Finishing as a displacer was sophomore Rachel Fischler (Avon, Conn./Avon), who took 213th in 26:46.
Coming Up
Gettysburg takes a week off from competition before hosting the newly named Aubrey Shenk Invite on Oct. 16.
