Women’s Cross Country Finishes 10th At NCAA D3 East Region Championship

BOSTON, Mass. – The Endicott women's cross country team placed 10th overall out of 29 teams at the NCAA Division III East Region Championship on Saturday afternoon at Franklin Park.

Tufts took top honors in the NCAA D3 East Region Championship behind a score of 59 points.

Meanwhile, MIT (65), Bates (87), Brandeis (89), and Wellesley (93) rounded out the top-5 of the 29-team field.

As for Endicott, the Gulls 10th place finish (398) put them ahead of Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) foes Suffolk (421), the University of New England (433), and Gordon (493). Only two weeks ago, Endicott finished behind Suffolk and UNE for the CCC Championship.

Cassandra Cosma (Center Moriches, N.Y.) guided the Gulls with a 62nd place finish on the 6-kilometer course in a time of 25:24.

Following Cosma in the top-5 were Julia Adrian (Noank, Conn.), Michaela Kenney (Springfield, Mass.), Brianna am Ende (East Lyme, Conn.), and Ella Aldrich (Winchester, Mass.). The quartet ranked 78th (26:03), 79th (26:06), 81st (26:13), and 98th (26:46), respectively.

INSIDE THE NUMBERS

• The gap between Endicott's No. 1 and No. 5 runners was just 1:22.
• This was the first-ever NCAA D3 East Region Championship.
• In July 2021, the NCAA DIII Men's and Women's Track & Field and Cross Country Committee, as well as the Division III Championships Committee, approved a 10-region realignment model for cross country.
• All five of the Gulls' scoring runners dropped at least eight seconds off their respective times in comparison to when they ran at Franklin Park earlier this year as part of the Suffolk Invitational.
• Cosma highlighted the group with a 40-second drop in her time today compared to October 16.

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(Photo Credit - David Le '10)