SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – The Slippery Rock University cross country teams will travel to Lock Haven, Pennsylvania Saturday to compete in the 2024 NCAA Division II Atlantic Region Championships hosted by Lock Haven.
 
SCHEDULE
• 10:30 a.m. – Men's 10,000-meter Race
• 11:45 a.m. – Women's 6,000-meter Race
 
WEST BRANCH XC COURSE INFO
• Directions
• Location: Stern Athletic Complex (Lock Haven, Pa.)
• Street Address: 42 Havenview Drive, Lock Haven, PA 17745
• Men's Course:  10K Map  |  Record: 29:31.03 (Alex Monroe, Lock Haven, 2013)
• Women's Course:  6K Map  |  Record: 20:02 (Treniere Clement, Georgetown, 2003)
 
PARKING
• $5 per vehicle

COVERAGE
• Live Video
• Live Results Page
• Meet Homepage
 
WATCH ON YOUR TV
• Fans can watch the meet live and on-demand for free on the Rock Athletics Digital Network by downloading the app on Amazon Fire, Roku or Apple TV smart TV devices. Lock Haven will be producing this feed.
 
MOBILE APP
• Fans can also watch the meet on the PSAC Sports Digital Network mobile app that is available for free in the app stores on Apple and Android devices.
 
FIELD MAKEUP
The Atlantic Region consists of all teams in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference, the Mountain East Conference and the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association. Not all of those teams will compete this weekend, but most will send at least some individual runners.
 
NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS QUALIFYING
• The top three teams in each race will qualify for the National Championships.
• The top two individuals not on a qualifying team will qualify for the National Championships.
• Any individuals in the top five overall that are not part of a qualifying team will qualify for the National Championships.
 
ALL-REGION AWARDS
• The top 25 finishers in each race are declared All-Region by the USTFCCCA.
 
SRU MEN'S ENTRIES

Name	Past Finishes (*All-Region)
Dom Bumblis	1st Appearance
Ryan Czechowski	1st Appearance
Troy Hart	15th (2023)* 16th (2022)*, 40th (2021)
Brady Hoffman	1st Appearance
John Juszynski	48th (2023)
Devon Navaroli	27th (2023), 45th (2022), 44th (2021)
Eli Schreiber	1st Appearance

Alternates: Michael Gauntner, Tucker Davis, Easton Adamczyk
 
SRU MEN'S TEAM FINISHES AT REGIONALS THE LAST FIVE YEARS
2023 – 4th
2022 – 6th
2021 – 5th
2019 – 11th
2018 – 12th
 
SRU MEN'S NOTES  |  Regional Rankings
• The Rock men enter the meet ranked sixth in the latest Atlantic Region rankings released by the USTFCCCA. SRU is coming off a fourth place showing at the PSAC meet two weeks ago at Kutztown. The top two teams in the region are No. 1 Davis & Elkins and No. 2 Shippensburg, followed by No. 3 Charleston. The next three teams that will attempt to disrupt that trio include East Stroudsburg, Indiana (Pa.) and SRU ranked No. 3-6.
 
• SRU finished fourth at the regional meet last fall, which marked the program's highest finish since 2012. The Rock sent two runners to the national meet as individual qualifiers with Joey Cintavey and Ethan Brentham qualifying.
 
• This will mark the first time this season that the men will bump up to the 10,000-meter distance. It will also mark the first collegiate race of that length for four of SRU's seven entries.
 
• SRU has three runners competing that have any experience at a regional championship. Troy Hart and Devon Navaroli will run their fourth Atlantic Region meet and John Juszynski will run his second. The other four SRU entries, Dom Bumblis, Ryan Czechowski, Brady Hoffman and Eli Schreiber, will be making their regional debut. Czechowski and Hoffman are experienced returners with true freshmen Bumblis and Schreiber earning a start in their first seasons.
 
• Troy Hart is looking for his third straight All-Region honor after placing 16th in 2022 and 15th in 2023. Hart could find himself in the mix for a top 10 finish and in the battle for one of the at large individual qualifying spots for nationals.
 
• Devon Navaroli is looking for his first career All-Region honor after finishing two spots off the mark last year in 27th. He has placed inside the top 45 in all three regional meets he has run in.
 
• Hart, Navaroli and John Juszynski picked up All-PSAC honors two weeks ago with Hart placing fifth and Navaroli placing 15th to earn first team All-PSAC honors and Juszynski placing 23rd to earn second team honors.
 
• SRU's top five scorers at the PSAC meet two weeks ago were capped by Eli Schreiber in 54th and Ryan Czechowski in 60th. Dom Bumblis was 62nd and Brady Hoffman was 64th to round out the top seven.
 
SRU WOMEN'S ENTRIES

Name	Past Finishes (*All-Region)
Hannah Burgoon	1st Appearance
Jennifer Cichra	41st (2022)
Carissa Flynn	1st Appearance
Maddie Grillo	51st (2023)
Tatiana Holt	1st Appearance
Ruthie Hughes	17th (2023)*, 50th (2022)
Anna Igims	4th (2023)*, 10th (2022)*, 29th (2021)

Alternates: Morgan Dennison, Skye Hackathorn, Caitlin Willer
 
SRU WOMEN'S TEAM FINISHES AT REGIONALS THE LAST FIVE YEARS
2023 – 2nd
2022 – 4th
2021 – 7th
2019 – 7th
2018 – 6th
 
SRU WOMEN'S NOTES  |  Regional Rankings
• The Rock women enter the meet ranked second in the latest Atlantic Region rankings released by the USTFCCCA. SRU is coming off a team title at the PSAC Championships two weeks ago, which marked the first back-to-back PSAC titles in program history. The only team in the region ranked higher is Mountain East Conference champion Davis & Elkins. Behind D&E and Slippery Rock, the next four teams in the regional rankings are the four teams that finished 2-5 behind SRU at the PSAC meet two weeks ago – Shippensburg, East Stroudsburg, Kutztown and Bloomsburg.
 
• SRU is looking to qualify for the National Championships as a team for the second straight year and just the fifth time in program history. The Rock took second at the regional meet last year behind Charleston, earning a trip to nationals for the first time since 2008. SRU also sent teams to nationals in 1993 and 1995.   
 
• Slippery Rock will send four women with regional experience and three women that will be making their regional debut. Anna Igims is set to run in her fourth regional meet, while Ruthie Hughes will race in her third regional and Jennifer Cichra and Maddie Grillo will both run in their second regional. Hannah Burgoon, Carissa Flynn and Tatiana Holt will all make their regional debut.
 
• Anna Igims is looking for her third straight All-Region honor and her third straight top 10 after taking 10th in 2022 and fourth in 2023. She has been terrific this fall and has yet to be beaten by any Division II runners, including two weeks ago when she won the PSAC meet by 32 seconds and set a course record at Kutztown to become just the second SRU female to ever win an individual XC title. If Igims can pull off a win this weekend, she would become the first SRU female to ever win the Atlantic Region title.
 
• Ruthie Hughes is looking for a second consecutive All-Region honor after placing 17th in 2023. Hughes is coming off a third place showing at the PSAC Championships two weeks ago and enters this week looking for a top 10 finish.   
 
• Jennifer Cichra makes her return to the regional meet for the first time since 2022 when she was 41st. Cichra also earned first team All-PSAC honors two weeks ago with a career-best 12th place showing.
 
• The Rock had six runners earn All-PSAC honors two weeks ago for top 30 finishes at the PSAC Championships. In addition to the trio of first team honorees mentioned above, Maddie Grillo (26th), Carissa Flynn (28th) and Tatiana Holt (30th) earned second team honors. Hannah Burgoon was the seventh SRU finisher and just missed out in 35th place. 
 
• SRU and Davis & Elkins have met once in a large invitational this year when they both raced in the Brown Race at Lehigh's Paul Short Run back on Oct. 5. The Senators narrowly edged SRU by just seven points in that competition. With a smaller field this week, the gap between the top two to four teams in the region could be extremely close.
 
RECAP AND RESULTS
Recaps from both races and results will be posted to www.RockAthletics.com Saturday.
 
UP NEXT
If any SRU individuals or teams qualify for nationals, they will compete at the National Championships Saturday, Nov. 23 at the Haggin Oaks Golf Complex in Sacramento, California.




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