NCAA Regionals
The Hopkinton State Fair in Hopkinton, New Hampshire served as the gateway to sort who (and which teams) would emerge at the top of the pile of the NCAA Division I Northeast Region Cross Country champion last Saturday. (Photos by Justin Sorensen)
Cross Country

Regional Off Roading, With A National Target

November 18, 2025
With the outdoor track and field season quiet until next spring, the collegiate cross country season roars into championship mode.

At stake are national titles, bragging rights, rivalries settled (or extended) and the yearly crop of breakout stars who offer a glimpse of the future of the sport far down the line. But at its core, cross country is plainly about the grit that simply doesn't exist on the track or road. It’s very much about coming out of a competition feeling worn, with traces of dirt from the terrain as a birthright or sorts and surging through the course no matter the conditions.

At the NCAA Division I Northeast Region Cross Country Championships in Hopkinton, New Hampshire last Saturday, photographer Justin Sorensen explored the grit as as tale of battling for team championships and a shot at a national title was on full display. Hofstra's Fredrick Kipkosgei and Army's Charlotte Richman would grab top honors as the top teams that advanced gather in Columbia, Missouri this Saturday for a final showdown.
Louis Small finished 16th in 29:44.0 and helped propel Syracuse (32 points) to the team win in the men’s race.
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With the men’s title on the line, 38 teams battled on the course at Hopkinton State Fairgrounds for a chance to advance to the Division I nationals in Missouri on Saturday.
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The women’s race was a flurry of action from the outset with Boston College, Providence, Army, Syracuse, Yale, Connecticut, Harvard, Quinnipiac, Cornell and Columbia were among the 37 teams locked in competition.
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Boston College finished eight with 265 points in the men’s race as they edged past Cornell, the ninth place finisher at 274 points.
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Grace Delisle navigated the women’s 6k course as she Vermont contributed to Vermont’s 24th place finish with 720 points.
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Harvard’s Sam Burgess clocked a 29:18.6 in the men’s 10k and reached a podium finish in third place.
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In a women’s 6k race that was tightly contested in the early stages, Boston College bolted to the team with 60 points, as Providence took second with 71.
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Connecticut’s Claire Paci maintained a slight edge on Buffalo’s Vassi Klock in the opening moments of the women’s 6k.
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As the intensity of the men’s 10k surged, Syracuse remained persistent on the way to dominant win.
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And it was evident that Syracuse was on a mission to not just be content with a qualifying spot in the men’s national final.
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Eleanor Lees finished in 23:28.2 as she helped Binghamton to a 19th place finish with 552 points.
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Boston College’s Imogen Gardiner, Army’s Charlotte Richman and Harvard’s Molly Malague were locked in a battled to decide who would finish in what order in the women’s 6k. Richman would take the win in 19:52.8.
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Hofstra’s Fredrick Kipkosgei would ultimately become the target of the men’s 10k race and would win in 29:12.7 over Syracuse’s Peter Walsdorf (29:17.5).
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In a sprint to the line, and decide the other men’s teams that would slot behind Syracuse, Harvard’s Tam Gavenas finished fifth in 29:21.2.
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The hype of the women’s 6k continued to build as the cluster of competitors worked through the early portion of the course.
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Fredrick Kipkosgei catapulted himself to the win in the men’s race and a tenth place finish for Hofstra with 325 points.
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Mallory Holloway finished in 21:58.4 and contributed to Marist’s 682 point total for 22nd overall as a team.
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Cornell’s Matthew O’Brien finished in 30:23.2 to help push his team to ninth place with 274 points.
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Annamaria Bacchetta finished in 21:47.3, adding to Dartmouth’s 14th place finish with 414 points.
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Connecticut finished sixth in the women 6k with 173 points and took a moment after the race to regroup and reflect on their effort.
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Boston College was aggressive throughout the men’s race and finished eighth place with 265 points.
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After finishing in 33:49.7 in the men’s 10k, Stony Brook’s Ryan Hesler is helped off of the course as his team finished 15th with 422 points.

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