BETHLEHEM, PA - The Rider University women's cross country team made their annual trip to the Goodman Campus Cross Course on the campus of Lehigh University for the Paul Short Run on Saturday morning. The team finished 17th out of the Division I institutions competing in the Brown Race.
Pacing the Broncs was junior
Peri Pavicic (Princeton, NJ/Hopewell Valley Central), who placed 19th overall with a season-best time of 22:23 on the 6k course. Freshman Teagan Schein-Becker (Trappe, PA/Perkiomen Valley) made her Paul Short debut a good one with a 98th place finish (23:32) among the 363 runners. Classmate
Haley Arguien (Churchville, NJ/Churchville-Chili) also ran a solid race with a 23:57 pace.
Also scoring for the Broncs were a pair of seniors.
Katie Chinery (Whiting, NJ/Manchester Township) finished the race in 24:46 while classmate
Gabriella Vassalotti (Marlton, NJ/Cherokee) completed the event in 25:34.
QUOTES & NOTES
"Overall, it was not the result that we expected, but I think we had some really good effort and we have made progress from our last meet. We were missing a few out of our top seven today and that hurt us a bit in the final standings, but we need to find ways to overcome these obstacles."
"Peri ran a nice race today. She fought hard over the second half of the race and she learned more about herself today. She fell off the front pack a bit earlier than we had hoped but it gives us some more info and data that we can utilize to improve in the next few weeks."
"Teagan and Haley really stepped up today. They are both doing a great job as freshmen and we will be looking to them to continue to make an impact as the season rolls on."
- Rider Head Coach Bob Hamer
- Pavicic's finish was the fourth best of all MAAC runners. Siobhan Quinn of Canisius won the race.
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Kristen White (West Middlesex, PA/West Middlesex) finished sixth among all Broncs running today with a time of 26:39.
UP NEXT
The Broncs make their another trip up Route 206 to compete at the Princeton Invite hosted by Princeton University on Friday, October 12.
