ECAC's at Williams
Nov 3rd 2007
Team Scoring
Women - 2nd with 63 points
Men - 6th with 171 points
Individual Results
Women
1 Katie Moravec SR 23:02.7
2 Kristen Ballinger FR 23:03.6
5 Hallie Schwab FR 23:15.8
27 Rachel Cameron SO 24:10.3
28 Cara Giaimo FR 24:10.8
( 38) Laura Mortimer SR 24:32.7
( 47) Nicole Green SR 24:49.6
Men
19 Jimmy Swanson SO 27:11.4
29 Peter Foote JR 27:29.8
36 John McGrail FR 27:38.9
37 Tom Anderson SO 27:39.2
50 William Bell SO 27:54.1
( 63) Stephen Grigelevich SO 28:09.1
( 80) Kevin Hanley FR 28:33.5
Race Recap
Athletes of the Meet - Katie Moravec'08 and Jimmy Swanson'10
Getting one more chance to run the Williams course - this time without rain, mud, puddles and relatively no wind - seemed to work wonders in regards to times, as just about everyone ran considerably quicker then they had on the same course in their prior races. The women were hoping to three-peat as ECAC Champions, as they had won the previous 2 years but the Williams depth proved to be a little too much to handle. Katie Moravec improved her finishing spot one place from last year, but it was big as the only improvement she could make was to win the race. She took the lead right from the gun and led for the entirety of the race, nearly breaking 23 minutes in the process. Kristen Ballinger was right with her the whole way, as she claimed the runner-up spot, less then a second behind while another first year, Hallie Schwab, had another great race as she finished 5th overall with a big 6k PR. Rachel Cameron and Cara Giaimo finished in 27th and 28th to close out the scoring, while Laura Mortimer - off for the past 9 days due to a foot injury, toughed it out to finish out her Amherst XC career with a Top 40 race, and Nicole Green had a big kick to get well under 25 minutes and improve upon her placing from this meet last year to also close out her Amherst XC career.
The men were led by Jimmy Swanson, who ran a gutsy race - leading for the first mile - to place 19th overall, just missing the All ECAC Team. Peter Foote was second for the team, cracking the top 30 and then John McGrail and Tommy Anderson finished within 10 seconds of Footie - with John getting the better of the last stretch kick! Will Bell rounded out the scoring in 50th, while Steve Grigelivich and Kevin Hanley closed out their season with the strong performances. The men, like the women, sat out their entire Top 7 (who were resting for the District qualifiers next weekend) but were still able to finish 6th overall - against a lot of other teams who were either running full teams or had some or several of their Top 7 runners in the race.