With a total of 102 points, the men’s cross country team finished fourth in the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional held in Princeton last Friday for the second consecutive time. Princeton was led by freshman Jeremy Spiezio, who was the first of the Tigers to complete the 10k race with a time of 31:21.2. He finished in 16th place and was followed by three seniors: Sam Berger at 31:28.5, Michael Sublette at 31:31.0 and Brett Kelly at 31.31.5. The final Princeton finisher to make the top 25 was freshman Steven Sum, who clocked 31.32.0. All five runners will earn All-Region honors for placing in the top 25. Patrick Tiernan of Villanova was the top finisher of the race with a time of 30:15.8, twenty seconds before the next best runner.
The top three spots were taken by three nationally ranked teams: No. 15-ranked Georgetown with 44 points, No. 23-ranked Penn with 60 points and No. 22-ranked Villanova with 67 points.
Spiezio, who was the top finisher for the first time this season, was excited regarding his individual placement in the race last week. “I think I ran pretty well. I was really happy with my race,” Spiezio said. “It was pretty exciting to be up in the front pack in a college race. It was not something I expected to happen.”
Regarding his opening season as a freshman, Spiezio was also content with his individual performance throughout the fall. “It had low points, but regionals was really a high point. Coming in, I expected to try adjusting and getting used to the academics here, training and a new team. Overall, I’m very happy.”
“We were pretty solid,” Spiezio said about his team’s performance this fall season. The Tigers finished in fifth place in the Heptagonal [Ivy League] Cross Country Championship earlier in the season and placed well in four additional races: the Princeton Invitational, the Wisconsin Invitational, the Princeton Interregional Meet and the Harvard-Yale-Princeton Meet, where Princeton finished first.
The team did not earn a bid to the NCAA National Championship this Saturday at the University of Louisville in Kentucky because of its fourth place finish, yet Spiezio, nonetheless, expressed his pride for his team and the season. “We were really shooting for the stars and trying to qualify for nationals, and we had an outside shot,” said Spiezio. “We had to run very well and some of the guys on the back ends of the other teams had to have slightly off days for it to work and for us to get that bid to go to nationals. We ended up finishing fourth, so we were two spots out, but overall the guys went out there and ran their hardest. It’s definitely been a lot of fun and a good experience.”
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