NEAC men's cross country preseason poll announced

The Wells College men's cross country team was picked 10th in the North Eastern Athletic Conference's 2016 preseason coaches' poll. Wells placed eighth in a field of 12 teams at the 2015 conference championship meet.

Top returning runners for Wells include sophomores Antonio D'Arpino, Bradlee Sherman and Ross Cobb. Each of those three placed among the top-four finishers for Wells at the conference championship meet in 2015, and Sherman and Cobb posted career-best times in the 8K race.

Under head coach Dr. Jack Daniels, Wells begins its season Sept. 3 at the Le Moyne College Short Course Invitational in Syracuse and continues its season Sept. 10 at the Bruce Bridgeman Invitational at Finger Lakes Community College in Canandaigua. The NEAC Championships will be held Oct. 29 at Lancaster Bible College in Lancaster, Pa.

The preseason rankings were conducted by the NEAC men's cross country coaches, with each coach ranking all teams but their own using a staggered points system (11 points for a first-place vote, 10 points for second, etc.).  No self-voting was allowed. | Full story at NEAC website

2016 NEAC Men's Cross Country Preseason Coaches' Poll

Rank, School, Points
(First-place votes in parentheses)

1. SUNY Polytechnic Institute (7), 112*
2. SUNY Cobleskill (4), 112*
3. Morrisville State College, 98
4. Gallaudet University (1), 86
5. Penn State Abington, 79
6. Penn State Berks, 67
7. Lancaster Bible College, 64
8. Keuka College, 48
9. Cazenovia College, 39*
10. Wells College, 39*
11. Bryn Athyn College, 28
12. Penn College, 20

* Ties broken by higher ordinal number points