Week 3 - September 19, 2023
NE10 Men's Cross Country Athlete of the Week
Wondu Summa, Franklin Pierce
Junior | Burlington, Vt.
Summa won the UMass Dartmouth Invitational on Sunday, finishing the five-mile race in 24:04.
NE10 Women's Cross Country Athlete of the Week
Isabel Marsh, Adelphi
Graduate Student | East Meadow, N.Y.
Coming off a record run in her first meet of 2023, Marsh broke the school's 5K record at the UMass Dartmouth Invitational, clocking a stunning 17:31.97. The previous record held by Adelphi's Ify Anene stood at 18:02 in 2008. Marsh has now trimmed her PR in the 5K by ninety seconds since last year. She was also the leading non-Division I finisher of a race of over 280 competitors, only trailing a runner from Boston University.
NE10 Men's Cross Country Rookie of the Week
Eric Sekyaya, Southern New Hampshire
Freshman | Burlington, Mass.
Sekyaya was the top runner for SNHU at the UMass Dartmouth Invitational on Sunday. The freshman came in 41st (out of 303) in 25:48.7.
NE10 Women's Cross Country Rookie of the Week
PJ Dauphinias, Southern Connecticut
Freshman | Seymour, Conn.
At the UMass Dartmouth Invitational, PJ Dauphinias finished in 38th place out of 280 runners with a time of 18:55.51.
NE10 Weekly Honor Roll
Caitlin Burmester, Bentley (Jr. - Willow Grove, Pa.)
Burmester placed 12th out of 280 runners at the UMass Dartmouth Invitational on Sunday. She crossed the finish line in 18:22.9.
Sam Capobianco, Bentley (Jr. - North Reading, Mass.)
Capobianco was Bentley's top finisher at the UMass Dartmouth Invitational with a time of 25:20.9 in the 8K course. He finished 20th overall out 303 runners.
Brianna Greco, So. Connecticut (Jr. - Thomaston, Conn.)
At the UMass Dartmouth Invitational, Grecco was the Owls' top finisher, completing the invitational in 18th place out of 280 runners from 16 schools with a time of 18:31.52.
William Lamburn, So. Connecticut (So. - Northborough, Mass.)
At the UMass Dartmouth Invitational, Lamburn finished 15th out of 303 competitors with a time of 25:10.15, which was the third-best time of an NE10 runner at the event.
Corrina Obernesser, SNHU (So. - Westminster, Col.)
Obernesser was the top finisher for SNHU at Sunday's Dartmouth Invitational. She finished 28th overall (out of 280) in 18:42.2. The time tied for 12th fastest in program history.
