SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – The Slippery Rock University cross country teams will travel to Lock Haven, Pennsylvania Saturday to compete in the 2025 NCAA Division II Atlantic Region Championships hosted by Lock Haven.
 
SCHEDULE
• 10:30 a.m. – Women's 6,000-meter Race
• 11:45 a.m. – Women's 10,000-Meter Race
 
WEST BRANCH XC COURSE INFO
• 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 video 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 (7 of these 9 will race)
Name (Past Finishes at Regionals)
Easton Adamczyk: 1st Appearance
Dom Bumblis: 61st (2024)
Ryan Czechowski: 66th (2024)
Michael Gauntner: 1st Appearance
John Juszynski: 36th (2024), 48th (2023)
Jonah Lindstrom: 1st Appearance
Alex Morris: 1st Appearance
Dylan Ribelin: 1st Appearance
Eli Schreiber: 68th (2024)
 
SRU MEN'S TEAM FINISHES AT REGIONALS THE LAST FIVE YEARS
2024 – 5th
2023 – 4th
2022 – 6th
2021 – 5th
2019 – 11th
 
SRU MEN'S NOTES  |  Regional Rankings
• SRU has entered the nine men listed above, but only seven will be allowed to race at the regional meet. Two men will travel and serve as alternates.
 
• Slippery Rock is coming off a seventh place finish at the PSAC Championships two weeks ago.  
 
• SRU finished fifth at the regional meet last year but loses its top two finishers from a year ago with the graduations of Troy Hart (11th) and Devon Navaroli (28th).
 
• This will mark the first time this season that the men will bump up to the 10,000-meter distance.
 
• SRU has just four men entered that have experience competing at the regional meet and the 10,000-meter distance. Those men include John Juszynski, who was 48th in 2023 and 36th in 2024, as the only SRU male making his third trip to regionals. Dom Bumblis (61st in 2024), Ryan Czechowski (66th in 2024) and Eli Schreiber (68th in 2024) all made their regional debuts last year.
 
• None of The Rock's entries have ever earned All-Region honors in XC.
 
• If freshman Jonah Lindstrom races Saturday, it will mark his first collegiate race at the 10,000-meter distance. He is the only true freshmen listed on The Rock's entry list.
 
• Other SRU men that could make their regional debuts this weekend include SRU veterans Easton Adamczyk, Michael Gauntner and Dylan Ribelin, as well as graduate transfer Alex Morris.
 
• SRU's top five scorers at the PSAC meet two weeks ago were Eli Schreiber, Michael Gauntner, John Juszynski, Jonah Lindstrom and Dylan Ribelin. Alex Morris and Easton Adamczyk rounded out the top seven.
 
SRU WOMEN'S ENTRIES (7 of these 9 will race)
Name: Past Finishes at Regionals
Hannah Burgoon: 76th (2024)
Jennifer Cichra: 17th (2024*), 41st (2022)
Carissa Flynn: 40th (2024)
Kayla Hanna: 1st Appearance
Sydney Heltzell: 1st Appearance
Ruthie Hughes: 9th (2024*) 17th (2023*), 50th (2022)
Gwen Lloyd: 33rd (2023), 23rd (2022*)
Marabelle Thornberry: 1st Appearance
Lydia Valeriano: 1st Appearance
*All-Region honors
 
SRU WOMEN'S TEAM FINISHES AT REGIONALS THE LAST FIVE YEARS
2024 – 2nd
2023 – 2nd
2022 – 4th
2021 – 7th
2019 – 7th
 
SRU WOMEN'S NOTES  |  Regional Rankings
• The Rock women enter the meet ranked ninth in the latest set of Atlantic Region rankings, dropping seven spots from No. 2 during most of this fall. The drop in the rankings comes after frontrunner Ruthie Hughes has sat out each of the last two competitions. SRU is coming off a sixth place showing at the PSAC Meet two weeks ago.
 
• SRU is looking to qualify for the National Championships as a team for the third straight year after earning runner-up finishes at regionals in each of the last seasons. The Rock will have to compete this year without the 2024 regional champion with the graduation of Anna Igims. 
 
• Slippery Rock will send five women with experience at the regional championships and three women that have previously earned All-Region honors for top 25 finishes. Those women include two-time All-Region honoree Ruthie Hughes, who was ninth last year and 17th in 2023, and one-time All-Region honorees Jenifer Cichra (17th in 2024) and Gwen Lloyd (23rd in 2022 while at Lock Haven). Other entries with experience at regionals include Carissa Flynn (40th in 2024) and Hannah Burgoon (76th in 2024), who both ran last fall on the same course.
 
• The rest of the SRU entries would be making their regional debut this week, including veteran Lydia Valeriano and freshmen Kayla Hanna, Sydney Heltzell and Marabelle Thornberry.
 
• Ruthie Hughes, who was third at the PSAC meet and ninth at regionals in 2024, is expected to return to competition this week after missing the last two meets with an injury.
 
• Jennifer Cichra has stepped up and led SRU in each of the last three meets, including the PSAC Championships two weeks ago when she placed a career-best eighth. She was joined in earning All-PSAC honors by Carissa Flynn (17th) and Hannah Burgoon (21st). The rest of the scorers for SRU at the PSAC meet included Lydia Valeriano (44th) and Gwen Lloyd (45th). Sydney Heltzell (63rd) and Kayla Hanna (64th) rounded out the top seven.
 
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. 22 at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
 
 



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