Cross Country Announces 2021 Schedule


GETTYSBURG COLLEGE
GETTYSBURG COLLEGE

de>GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Since the 2020 cross country season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, both the Gettysburg College men’s and women’s teams are eager to get racing again with full-length schedules in 2021.

During the 2019 season, the men’s team was regionally ranked three times, placed 5th at the Centennial Conference Championship, and finished 16th at the NCAA Division III Mideast Regional, which was the highest showing at the regional meet since 2010. The women’s team finished seventh at the CC championship and 26th at regionals.

Gettysburg starts the season with its 43rd Annual Cross Country Alumni Race on Aug. 28. The current student-athletes and alumni will square off in the yearly tradition with the main course running next to the Gettysburg Battlefield.

The 2021 season officially begins on Sept. 3 at the Galen Piper race, hosted by Shippensburg University. The Bullets have been regulars at the race since 2006.

The teams will then compete on Sept. 10 in the Little Three Meet with Franklin & Marshall College and Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa. The long-tenured race has happened each season since 1966 for the men and since 1981 for the women. Two weeks later the Bullets will compete in Carlisle again in the Long Short Invite, hosted by Dickinson on Sept. 25.

Gettysburg travels to Western N.Y. on Oct. 2nd to race at the Mike Woods Invite, hosted by SUNY Geneseo, and will compete at home on Oct. 16 at the newly named Aubrey Shenk Invite. In 2019, the Gettysburg Invitational was renamed the Aubrey Shenk Invitational in honor of Head Coach Aubrey Shenk, who spent more than three decades patrolling the courses with the team. The annual invitational has been held every year since 1978 and typically features more than 500 competitors from all three NCAA divisions.   

Two weeks later, Gettysburg competes at the Centennial Conference Championship on Oct. 30 at Johns Hopkins University with the NCAA Regional scheduled for Nov. 13.

This story was originally posted on the Gettysburg College Website.

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