Men's Cross Country All-Decade
The Wells College 2020 All-Decade Team in men's cross country comprises student-athletes that participated during the past 10 fall seasons between 2009-18. The team consists of 10 selections with all-conference selections receiving automatic placement.*
The 2020 All-Decade team includes (alphabetically): Stephen Armstrong (2012, 2014-15), Ross Cobb (2015-16, 2018), Antonio D'Arpino (2015-18), Paul Hernon (2012-14), Tanner Mingen (2015-17), Ky'aire Reed (2013-16), Brayden Shumski (2009-12), Adam Sleezer (2016-17), Eli Stone (2017-18) and John Tolley (2015-18).
During the three seasons between 2009-12, the Wells College men's cross country team finished the NEAC Championships as one of the top-six teams with three of those years in the top-five. The same four-year span also coincides with Shumski's four seasons on the team. Shumski is the only all-decade selection to earn all-conference honors in four seasons. His freshman and sophomore seasons produced second-team all-conference and his junior and senior seasons saw him earn the program's inaugural and only first-team all-conference selections, which he achieved twice. Shumski finished in the top-10 in all four conference championships with a seventh-place finish in 2011 (28:27) and 2012 (29:53), a ninth-place finish in 2014 (30:55) and a 10th-place finish in 2010 (29:11).
The men's cross country all-decade team consists of four members that earned all-conference selections that in addition to Shumski, include Hernon, Sleezer and Mingen. Mingen garnered second-team honors in 2017 after finishing 13th (30:37) and missed a third all-conference selection the previous year by one place finish after finishing 22nd in 2016 (29:44). Sleezer earned a pair of third-team all-conference honors in 2016 and 2017. His best finish was in 2016 when he was 15th (28:47), while he also finished 18th in 2017 (30:58). Hernon joins Shumski and Armstrong as members of the 2012 team that finished fifth at the NEAC Championships that year. Hernon had one top-20 finish in the conference championship in 2013 (30:45) which earned him an all-conference nod, while placing 32nd in 2012 (32:57) and 35th in 2014 (31:05).
Three other members of the men's cross country all-decade team joined Shumski with four seasons in the books and include D'Arpino, Reed and Tolley. D'Arpino's two-best conference championship times were 30:30 (2018) and 30:39 (2016). Reed's two-best conference championship times were 33:38 (2014) and 34:15 (2016). Tolley's two-best conference championship times were 33:27 (2018) and 34:56 (2016).
The all-decade team's lone member to compete in just two seasons was Stone, who ran in the program's last two seasons with times of 31:29 (2018) and 33:11 (2017). The remaining two runners from the all-decade team each have three seasons of competition and include Armstrong and Cobb. Armstrong's two-best conference championship times were 30:32 (2015) and 31:05 (2014), while Cobb's were 32:40 (2016) and 34:48 (2015).
*Criteria for individual selections and team composition varies upon available information that may include, but is not limited to, input from coaches, conference distinctions and supporting statistics when available. Former Wells College sports information director Griffin Spencer contributed to the team's selection.
