The 2022 Fall Cross Country Recap

The Cougars Cross Country team was lead by Coach Todd Wollin for another historic run in the 2022 Fall Season!

Men's Cross Country Highlights

Highlights from the Men's National NJCAA DIII national meet and recap!

NATIONALS-11/5/2022-Westfield, Mass.

The Men finished this season with another Top 10 (8th) Nationals finish at the NJCAA DIII event! The Cougars finished with an average time of 30 minutes and 34 seconds as a team at the event hosted by Holyoke Community College marking their 3rd consecutive Top 10 finish all without their top runner (sickness) in the 2022 season.  The Cougars were lead by Sophomore's Daniel Enberg and Devon Fanning as well as Freshmen Zach Southarrd at the DIII event, all running one of their best times of year finishing 47th, 49th and 50th respectively at the meet. Out of 157 participants at the event, St. Charles CC was the only school/team to have all their participants finish in the top 100! 

Regular Season

The Cougars men finished the season ranked 6th in the country overall and peaked as high as 4th in the NJCAA polls!

Women's Cross Country Highlights

Highlights from the Women's National NJCAA DIII national meet and recap!

NATIONALS-11/5/2022-Westfield, Mass.

The Women had two top 50 finishers (Pietrusinski and Saso, 47th) at the NJCAA DIII Nationals event this year! Highlighting the event was FR runner Payden Pietrusinski who finished 2nd overall among all 97 participants and won NJCAA Women Athlete of the Year! It was a banner year for the Freshmen Pietrusinski as she spent most of the year amongst the top of the individual polls for the entire NJCAA season and was capped off by the highest finish by a Women athlete in SCC history at the National event. 

Please follow along this spring while many of these athletes also compete on the SCC Men's and Women's Track and Field teams!