2005 Cross Country All-Conference Teams Announced
Williams' Cretti,
Holtschulte Earn Most Outstanding Performer For Second-Straight
Year
HADLEY, Mass. - The New England
Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) announced today the 2005
edition of the Cross Country All-Conference teams. Williams seniors
Neil Holtschulte (Marysville, Ohio) and Caroline Cretti
(Carbondale, Colo.) both came away with Most Outstanding Performer
honors for the second-straight season, after earning medalist
honors at the 2005 NESCAC Cross Country Championships held at
Wesleyan on October 29, 2005.
It was the third year in a row that
Holtschulte was recognized as the Most Outstanding Performer of the
Year on the men’s side, receiving the award for the first
time in 2003 and then again in 2004. Holtschulte finished the 2005
championship with a time of 25:09.2 - shattering the Long Lane
Farms course record by almost 40 seconds.
The 2005 NESCAC Men’s Cross
Country All-Conference First Team, selected based on individual
finish at the championship, consisted of six runners from the 2004
First Team and one newcomer. Members from last season’s First
Team to earn the honor again this season were Tufts’ junior
Josh Kennedy and senior Matt Lacey, Wesleyan’s graduate
student Wes Fuhrman and senior Owen Kiely, and Williams’
Holtschulte and junior Stephen Wills. The newcomer to the group is
senior Dan Johnson from Bates, a Second Team selection last year.
Holtschulte and Kennedy also received First Team recognition in
2003.
The Men’s Rookie of the Year
award went to Hunter Norte (Ellington, Conn.) of Trinity, as he
finished ninth at the championship - the highest finish among
first-year runners - and earned All-Conference Second Team honors.
Men’s Coach of the Year was shared among two individuals for
the second year in a row, as Tufts’ Ethan Barron and
Wesleyan’s John Crooke were the choice among the coaches for
the award. It is the first time that the first-year Barron or
Crooke, now in his sixth season with Wesleyan, have earned the
award.
On the women’s side, Cretti
also collected her third Most Outstanding Performer award, after
receiving the accolade in her rookie campaign of 2002 and again
last season. Her first-place finish at the 2005 championship
guaranteed her a spot on the Women’s Cross Country
All-Conference First team for the fourth year in a row.
Joining Cretti as the only other
holdover from the 2004 First Team was Amherst junior Shauneen
Garrahan, who also received First Team recognition in 2003. The
remainder of the First Team was comprised of Colby’s senior
Jessica Minty and junior Karen Prisby, Wesleyan junior Ellen Davis,
a Second Team selection last season, and Williams sophomores Liz
Gleason and Mallory Harlin.
The Women’s Rookie of the
Year award went to Amherst’s Nicole Anderson (Kailua,
Hawaii), as she finished eighth at the championship, the highest
among rookies, and earned All-Conference Second Team honors.
Williams head coach Peter Farwell was named the Women’s Coach
of the Year, after guiding the Ephs to their 10th Women’s
Cross Country crown. Farwell has served as head coach for the
Williams Women since the 2000 season, after beginning his tenure as
the Men’s head coach in 1979, a position he still holds.
Farwell last received Women’s Coach of the Year honors in
2002.
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2005 NESCAC Men's Cross Country
All-Conference Teams
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| First Team
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| Wes Fuhrman
| Wesleyan
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| Sun River, Ore.
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| Neal Holtschulte
| Williams
| Sr.
| Marysville, Ohio
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| Dan Johnson
| Bates
| Sr.
| Detroit Lakes, Minn.
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| Joshua Kennedy
| Tufts
| Jr..
| Guilford, Conn.
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| Owen Kiely
| Wesleyan
| Sr.
| Athol, Mass.
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| Matthew Lacey
| Tufts
| Jr.
| Amherst, Mass.
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| Stephen Wills
| Williams
| Jr.
| Colorado Springs, Colo.
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| Second Team
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| Keith Drake
| Connecticut College
| Jr.
| Lebanon, N.H.
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| Matt Fortin
| Tufts
| Sr.
| Raymond, Mass.
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| Jon King
| Wesleyan
| Jr.
| Greenland, N.H.
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| Tyler Lonsdale
| Bowdoin
| So.
| Westport, Conn.
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| Tomas Morrissey
| Amherst
| So.
| Astoria, Ore.
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| Hunter Norte
| Trinity
| Fr.
| Ellington, Conn.
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| Morgan Seybert
| Williams
| So.
| Belle Mead, N.J.
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| NESCAC Most Outstanding Performer
(Medalist)
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Neal Holtschulte
| Williams
| Sr.
| Marysville, Ohio
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| NESCAC Rookie of the Year
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| Hunter Norte
| Trinity
| Fr.
| Ellington, Conn.
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| NESCAC Co-Coaches of the Year
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Ethan Barron
| Tufts
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John Crooke
| Wesleyan
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2005 NESCAC
Women’s Cross Country All-Conference
Teams
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| First Team
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| Caroline Cretti
| Williams
| Sr.
| Carbondale, Colo.
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| Ellen Davis
| Wesleyan
| Jr.
| Montclair, N.J.
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| Shauneen Garrahan
| Amherst
| Jr.
| Fairfax Station, Va.
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| Liz Gleason
| Williams
| So.
| Newton, Mass.
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| Mallory Harlin
| Williams
| So.
| Cranford, N.J.
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| Jessica Minty
| Colby
| Sr.
| Concord, Mass.
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| Karen Prisby
| Colby
| Jr.
| Agawam, Mass.
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| Second Team
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| Becca Ades
| Tufts
| Sr.
| Shelburne, Vt.
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| Nicole Anderson
| Amherst
| Fy.
| Kailua, Hawaii
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| Catherine Beck
| Tufts
| So.
| Brookline, N.H.
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| Andrea Giddings
| Middlebury
| Jr.
| South Portland, Maine
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| Kim Partee
| Amherst
| So.
| Brentwood, Tenn.
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| Michelle Rorke
| Williams
| Sr.
| Bronxville, N.Y.
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| Heather Wilson
| Amherst
| So.
| Danvers, Mass.
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| NESCAC Most Outstanding Performer
(Medalist)
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Caroline Cretti
| Williams
| Sr.
| Carbondale, Colo.
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| NESCAC Rookie of the Year
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| Nicole Anderson
| Amherst
| Fy.
| Kailua, Hawaii
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| NESCAC Coach of the Year
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| Peter Farwell
| Williams
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