Runner of the Week 9/6/16

Duncan Hopkins, So, Dickinson
Lancaster, Pa./JP McCaskey

Hopkins broke the course record to win the individual title at the Dickinson Light up the Night Invitational. He crossed the line in a time of 16:02 to lead the Red Devils to the team title for the second straight year. 

NOTEBOOK:

Gettysburg senior Ben Taber was the top collegiate finisher at the Shippensburg University Galen Piper Challenge. He placed third among 106 runners, including 10 from Division II Shippensburg, and finished behind only a pair of post-collegiate competitors. 

Muhlenberg senior Jaryd Flank opened the season by finishing first at the Lehigh Invitational. He beat the second-place finisher, an unattached runner, by more than seven seconds, and was 32 seconds ahead of the next collegiate runner. Flank has finished in the top five in every race except the NCAA Championships since the start of the 2015 season.

Johns Hopkins junior Louis Levine won the Baltimore Metro Invitational for the second straight year, as the first of seven Blue Jays to cross the line before a runner of another school finished.