The Bears return five of their seven runners competing at the New England Regional Championships including top finisher Gretchen Krause (19:47 5K NEWMACs / 23:05 6K Regionals).
"We are fortunate to return so many runners from last season’s roster," said head coach Ethan Brown. "Our returners gained some valuable experience from last year’s cross country and track & field seasons. The roster is a little smaller, but that is no indicator of our potential. There are so many runners on our team that could really make a significant impact to our team’s performance and make a run for a big performance at NEWMAC Championships."
Bonny Turnage and Rachel Burchill will prove to be formidable runners on the team and in the conference. Turnage began her breakout year runner to the #2 spot at regionals (23:46 6K) then to go on in the track season to run 4:53 in the 1500 meters as well as 18:16 in the 5000 meter during the outdoor track & field season.
Burchill kept turning up the intensity all year. She posted the CGA’s #2 indoor track & field season 5000 meters at 19:53, but then went on to top that at 19:17 outdoors and then ran a 39:55 in the 10,000 meters.
