2019 AMCC Men's Cross Country News
The Faculty Athletic Representatives (FARs) around the AMCC have voted on and selected the 2020 FAR Award Winners.
Medaille College Director of Athletics Susan Roarke has announced this afternoon the hiring of David Sardo as the next head coach of the men's and women's cross country teams.
All institution sport teams which compete for an AMCC championship may select one member from their team who displays good sportsmanship throughout the season to be a member of the All-AMCC Sportsmanship Team.
Franciscan University junior Liam Galligan ran a 25:05.5 to place 46th at the NCAA National Championship in Louisville this weekend.
Penn State Behrend once again started off the year with several AMCC championships and is in the lead for the Presidents Cup title after the fall sport season.
The Penn State Behrend men's cross country team finished in 10th place out of 51 teams at the NCAA Mid-East Regional on Saturday morning, while Franciscan University claimed 13th place.
Franciscan University junior Liam Galligan is the 2019 AMCC Runner of the Year. Galligan won his third straight individual title this past weekend and helped lead Franciscan to back-to-back AMCC Championships.
Galligan won his third straight individual title this past weekend and helped lead Franciscan to back-to-back Championships. Galligan finished the championship race in 24:42.7, placing first out of 73 individuals. He set the AMCC championship record time as he will continue to practice in preparation for the NCAAs.
Franciscan University junior Liam Galligan won his third straight AMCC cross country title as he led the Barons to their second consecutive conference championship.
AMCC cross country teams will head to Erie, PA this weekend for the 2019 AMCC Men's Cross Country Championship.
The Hilbert College cross country program volunteered at a pair of events over the past two weekends, working the Lou Reuter Scholarship Run on October 20th in the town of Tonawanda and the Buffalo Runners Chestnut Ridge Challenge in Orchard Park on October 27th.
Galligan a new personal record for him in the 8k. It was a huge field with many nationally ranked teams: Otterbein #10, John Carroll #15, Bates (Maine) #17, Berea #20 and Case Western #29.
Domasky was the Redhawks top finisher for the 5th straight invite at CMU running a season best 29:45.87 in hte 8K race, good enough for 72nd out of 110 individuals. The Freshman's progression this season has been outstanding. In his first race at the Bethany Invitational (9/7), Domasky ran a 31:48.0, at Penn St. Behrend (9/13) he ran a 32:33.7, at Chatham (9/27) he ran a 30:56.98 and at his last race at Mercyhurst (10/5) he ran a 31:17.9. Today's race was over a minute faster than his second best race this season.
Moran had another strong race for the Spartans, taking first overall at the Meghan Memorial. Moran finished the Meghan Memorial 5k with a time of 16:46 - the fastest time of all participating runners. The next runner from a participating team finished over two minutes behind Moran. In every race this season, Moran has finished first overall for the men and he owns the records for the 5K and 8K races.
Galligan finished second among DIII runners and fourth overall behind only DI runners. Galligan helped the Barons to a third-place finish among DIII teams at All-Ohio Championships, their highest finish at the meet. He finished the 8K race in 25:26.1.
