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LANCASTER, Pa. - The 27th annual Centennial Conference women's cross country championship will take place Saturday at Gettysburg College. The women's 6,000-meter run is scheduled for 12 p.m., following the men's race at 11 a.m.
Can anyone stop Hop? Perennial power Johns Hopkins is riding an 11-year championship winning streak entering this weekend. The Blue Jays continue to break records at the CC Championships, as they captured spots 1-7 and nine of the top-10 spots in 2018 to become the first team to register a perfect score at last year's championship race. Last year's national runner-up, the Blue Jays enter this weekend ranked No. 1 in the USTFCCCA for the third week in a row.
JHU welcomes back six of its nine All-Centennial performers from a season ago and eight runners who have achieve All-Centennial status throughout their careers, led by two-time first-teamer junior Therese Olshanski (6th in 2018; 5th in 2017), and fellow two-time All-CC runners in senior Samantha Levy (4th in 2018; 9th in 2016) and senior Rebecca Grusby (7th in 2018; 5th & ROY in 2016). Additional all-conference returners for the Blue Jays include senior Caelyn Reilly (2nd in 2018), junior Ariel Keklak (9th in 2018), sophomore Arielle Summitt (13th & ROY in 2018) and seniors Kristin Meek (13th in 2017) and Allison Rosen (14th in 2018).
Dickinson, ranked fifth in the latest national poll, will look to challenge the Blue Jays for the conference crown. The Red Devils have finished second for three years in a row and seven times in the last 11 years since Hopkins began its championship streak. Junior Isabel Cardi has put together a stellar fall, collecting four CC Athlete of the Week awards after posting two individual wins and top-three finishes in all five of her meets this fall, including a second-place showing at the highly-competitive Rowan Inter-Regional Border Battle. Cardi collected second-team honors at last year's championship with an 11th-place finish. Junior Emma Johnston, who placed eighth last year, senior Tess Cassidy (8th in 2017), and senior Sarah House also highlight the returners for the Red Devils.
Haverford junior Hannah Doll placed 14th last season and will aim for a repeat All-Centennial performance. Additional names to keep an eye on include Bryn Mawr senior Anna Kyle, Franklin & Marshall sophomore Alexis Salerno, Gettysburg sophomore Kathrin O'Brien, McDaniel junior Julia Murphy, Muhlenberg sophomore Abby Dalton, Swarthmore junior Emma Novak, and Ursinus sophomore Rachel Conhoff.
In addition to JHU and Dickinson's national rankings, four Centennial squads enter the conference championship in the USTFCCCA Mideast Regional rankings - Johns Hopkins (1), Dickinson (2), Swarthmore (4), and Haverford (7).