The Centennial Conference is celebrating 25 years as one of the elite small college athletic conferences in the country with the announcement of its Silver Anniversary teams, highlighting the best of the best over our first quarter-century.

For inclusion on a Silver Anniversary team, a student must have a degree from one of the Conference institutions and met one of the following qualifications: 

• 3-time or 4-time first-team All-Centennial performer
• 2-time Centennial Conference Player of the Year
• 1st team All-America AND 2-time first-team All-Centennial performer
• 2-time All-America (1st, 2nd or 3rd team)

 For individual sports such as swimming and track and field, the accomplishments must have occurred in the same event.

Cross Country

Twenty-five men and 28 women were named to the Silver Anniversary team in cross country. The Conference has six national team champions – the Haverford men in 2010 and the Johns Hopkins women in 2012-13-14-16-17. The Ford men have also finished second on three other occasions (2007-11-12).

Two men have captured individual national titles – Haverford's J.B. Haglund in 2001 and Anders Hulleberg in 2010. Dickinson's Caitlin Bradley was runner-up at the 2006 women's national meet, while Hopkins' Ellie Clawson earned a bronze medal at the 2017 championship. 

Forty-three men have earned All-America honors by finishing in the top 35 at the NCAA championship, including five that placed in the top 10. Forty-eight women have received All-America recognition, including 10 that placed in the top 10.

The purpose of the Centennial Conference is to provide for athletic competition among institutions that share high academic aspirations and are committed to the importance of the total educational experience for students engaged in sports. Its full-time members include Bryn Mawr, Dickinson, Franklin & Marshall, Gettysburg, Haverford, McDaniel, Muhlenberg, Swarthmore, Ursinus and Washington Colleges, along with Johns Hopkins University. 

The Conference was founded in 1981 as the Centennial Football Conference and began competition as an all-sports conference in the fall of 1993. The Conference crowns champions in 24 sports.

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