NEWARK, New Jersey – On Saturday morning the women's cross country competed at Branch Brook Park in the Metropolitan Conference Cross Country Championships. Despite sitting out some key runners, the women raced to a strong sixth place finish overall as a team.
         
Leading the way was freshman Mallory Holloway, who finished in 12th place with a personal best time of 18:30.58 to earn First Team All-Met Honors. Close behind in 18th was fellow freshman Kayla Hawkins, racing her way to a big personal best time of 18:45.01. Rounding out the scoring pack for the Red Foxes were junior Raven Stanet in 19:23.74, junior Kaitlyn Hastings in 19:25.43, and sophomore Christina DiOrio in 19:33.38. These times were also personal best times for all three ladies as well.

On the day, 10 women competed for Marist and the results were six personal bests, three collegiate bests, and one season best time.
 
"I am so extremely proud of how well our women executed today out there on the course. After a sub-par showing at Paul Short last week, it was so nice to see the girls bounce back and have their best team performance of the season," said Head Coach Chuck Williams. "In our sport we are constantly striving to get five women to put together their best races all on the same day, but to have all 10 women achieve that today gives us a great deal of confidence as we prepare for the MAAC championships."
 
Next up for the women's cross country team will be the Vermont Fall Foliage Invitational on Sunday, Oct. 15 in St. Albans, VT.

 
 
Metropolitan Championships 
Saturday, October 7, 2023 
Branch Brook Park, Newark, NJ 
Hosted by NJIT 
Women's team standings 
1-St. John's 68, 2-Manhattan 77, 3-Seton Hall 99, 4-Fordham 119, 5-Columbia 128, 6-Marist 132, 7-Ramapo 154, 8-Hofstra 169, 9-NJIT 181, 10-St. Peter's 290 
Women's individual results, 5km course 
12-Mallory Holloway 18:30 (personal best) 
18-Kayla Hawkins 18:45 (personal best)
32-Raven Stanet 19:23 (personal best)
33-Kaitlyn Hastings 19:25 (personal best)
38-Christina Diorio 19:33 (personal best)
41-Jackie Caron 19:40 (collegiate best)
53-Anaiya Bobo 20:02 (season best)
57-Grace LaCapra 20:22 (collegiate best)
63-Karlie Genevieve 20:36 (personal best)
69-Rachael Turek 21:18 (collegiate best)
82 finishers