MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY - MOMENT #20
November 19,
2005
DePauw University junior Chad Bennett earns all-America honors at
the 2005 NCAA Division III Men's Cross Country Championships with a
24th place finish. Bennett covered the course in a time of 26:15.1,
and became just the second SCAC men's cross country runner to earn
all-America acclaim.
MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY - MOMENT #19
November 21,
2009
Jackson Brainerd of Colorado College caps an incredible
sophomore season by earning All-America honors with an 18th-place
finish at the NCAA Division III national championship. Brainerd
covered the 8,000-meter course at the Highland Park Golf Course in
Cleveland, Ohio, in a time of 25:54.70.
MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY - MOMENT #18
November 17, 2007
Colorado College's Julian Boggs and Alex Nichols post 13th
and 14th-place finishes respectively at the 2007 NCAA Division III
Championship meet, earning all-America honors and posting the
second and third best finishes (in regards to place) by any
SCAC men's cross country runner at the national meet.
MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY - MOMENT #17
October 27,
2001
DePauw lives up to its billing as the 15th-ranked team in the
nation, finishing with a then SCAC team-record score of 16 to win
the men’s title in dominating fashion at the 2001 SCAC Cross
Country Champinoships at Centre. It was the second-consecutive
conference championship for the DePauw men. The Tigers were led by
two-time SCAC Runner-of-the-Year senior Eric Fruth, who won with a
time of 26:06.32 – the second-fastest time ever at the
conference meet (at that time).
MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY - MOMENT #16
October 28,
2006
The 27th-ranked DePauw men's cross country team wins its seventh
straight SCAC title at the conference championship meet hosted by
Centre College. The Tigers totaled 48 points, while Centre finished
with 59 and Colorado College was third with 63. It was the closest
race for the men since the 1999 race at Hendrix College when Rhodes
defeated Trinity by nine points. DePauw's seven straight team
titles represents the third-longest win streak in the
history of the sport (CAC and SCAC included). Rhodes won 10
straight from 1990 to 1999 and Washington University won
eight in a row from 1964 to 1971.
MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY - MOMENT #15
November 13,
2004
For the first time ever, the SCAC qualifies two men's teams (Centre
and DePauw) for the NCAA national meet in the same year. Centre
finished in second place at the South/Southeast Regional, run at
Panthersville, Ga., and the eighth-ranked DePauw men earned its
second trip to the NCAA Championships by finishing second at the
Division III Great Lakes Regional at Alma, Mich. Before this, the
conference had only qualified one men's team total (DePauw in
2001) to the national meet.
MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY - MOMENT #14
October 30,
1999
Trinity University's Tom Pillow wins the 1999 SCAC Men's
Cross Country individual title with a time of 26:42, garnering
the senior his third Runner-of-the-Year title (1996, 1997).
He remains one of only two male runners (Graham Wellman,
DePauw - 2002-2003-2004) to win earn
three individual wins at the conference championship
meet.
MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY - MOMENT #13
November 10,
2007
Rhodes College wins the South/Southeast men's cross country
regional meet in Williamsburg, Va., posting a team score of 76.
Seniors Nick Lewis (26:08) and Alex Mahoney (26:09) posted third
and fourth-place finishes respectively to lead the Lynx to victory
and a slot in the national meet.
MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY - MOMENT #12
October 27, 2007
The Colorado College men win the schools' first-ever SCAC
championship in any sport, snapping DePauw's seven-year
stranglehold on the title in the process, with a 37-point
performance. Led by SCAC Runner-of-the-Year Alex Nichols
(25:36.05), the Tigers duplicated their feat of having the same
individuals finish 1-2-3 in the standings. Last year, it was Julian
Boggs who took top honors with Nichols and Kiran Moorty coming in
second and third, but in 2007, it was Nichols who took the top
honors, followed by Moorty (25:51.50) and Boggs
(25:57.10).
MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY - MOMENT #11
November 11,
2006
Although Colorado College just missed out on qualifying as a
team with a fourth-place finish at the West Regional Meet, junior
Julian Boggs earned the program's first individual regional meet
win in 20 years as he took medalist honors with a 24:32.6 finish
and qualified for the national meet (along with teammates Alex
Nichols and Kiran Moorty) as an individual.
MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY - MOMENT #10
November 14,
2009
Sophomore Jackson Brainerd of Colorado College comes from
behind in the last five meters to win the NCAA Division III West
Regional Meet in Claremont, Calif. Brainerd covered the 8,000-meter
course on the Pomona College campus in a time 25:26.65 and won by
.016 of a second over Occidental’s Eric Kleinsasser.
MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY - MOMENT #9
November 10,
2001
The DePauw University men’s cross
country team becomes the first SCAC team to earn a spot in the
cross country national championships, placing third at the Great
Lakes Regional to earn its spot in the field.
MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY - MOMENT #8
November 11, 2006
Centre College and Rhodes College finish 1-2 at the NCAA
South/Southeast Men’s Cross Country Regional – hosted
by Emory University in Atlanta, Ga. – to qualify for the
national meet. It is the first time the SCAC has produced a 1-2
finish at any regional cross country meet, and Rhodes’ Alex
Mahoney becomes the first SCAC runner to win a NCAA
regional meet, finishing the 8K course in a time of 25:41.6.
Centre’s Eric Hack placed third.
MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY - MOMENT #7
November 6,
2004
Graham Wellman of DePauw University wins his third straight
Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Runner-of-the-Year
individual title and leads DePauw to its fifth consecutive SCAC
crown. Wellman becomes the first (and to this day, only) man
to win three consecutive conference cross country championship
meets.
MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY - MOMENT #6
November 15,
2008
Chase Wilson of Centre College becomes the second SCAC runner
to win a NCAA regional meet (following Alex Mahoney of Rhodes
College in 2006), coming in first out of 152 runners at the
2008 South/Southeast Regional Championship at Seguin, Texas, with a
time of 25:23.07. He leads the Colonels to a team victory at the
meet - the program's third regional title in the last four
years. Wilson is later honored as the South/Southeast Regional
Athlete of the Year and Centre head coach Lisa Owen is named
Regional Coach of the Year.
MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY - MOMENT #5
November 20,
2004
DePauw University's Graham Wellman becomes the first SCAC
cross country all-American as the senior finishes in 33rd place at
the 2004 NCAA Men’s and Women’s Cross Country
Championships, which were run at the Whitetail Golf Course, Colfax,
Wisc. The DePauw men finished in 13th place in the team standings -
the highest-ever finish for a SCAC men's team at the national
championship meet.
MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY - MOMENT #4
November 12,
2005
The Centre College men win the South/Southeast Regional - which is
run at Hendrix College - to earn a spot in the NCAA Division
III Championships for the second consecutive year. The victory is a
milestone moment for the conference as the Colonels
become the first SCAC cross country team - male or female - to win
a NCAA regional meet. Centre's Eric Hack led the way with a
fifth-place individual finish (25:34.8).
MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY - MOMENT #3
November 18, 2006
Running at the 2006 NCAA Division III Men’s Cross
Country Championships at the Voice of America Park in West Chester,
Ohio, Colorado College’s Julian Boggs posts the highest-ever
finish for a SCAC student-athlete at the national meet. Boggs, the
2006 SCAC Runner-of-the-Year, crosses the tape in third-place among
all individuals in a time of 26:44.
MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY - MOMENT #2
October 29, 2005
The DePauw University men sweep the top five individual positions
and post a perfect score of 15 at the 2005 SCAC
championships at Hendrix College. It remains the only perfect
score by either a men's or women's team in the history of the
conference meet (SCAC era). Jared Mann, who earns SCAC
Runner-of-the-Year honors, runs a SCAC championship meet record
time of 24:42.75 - which remains the current record.
MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY - MOMENT #1
October 30,
1999
The Rhodes College men win their 10th consecutive CAC/SCAC cross
country title at the 1999 SCAC Cross Country championships at
Hendrix College. In the third-closest finish in the history of the
event, the Lynx edged Trinity University by nine points and
DePauw University by 11 as head coach Robert Shankman
(pictured left) earned his ninth straight SCAC Men's
Cross Country Coach-of-the-Year honor in post-race voting.
The 1999 men's team title, which is the last won by the Rhodes men,
capped an incredible three years of tight finishes on the men's
side. Rhodes defeated Trinity by seven points in 1997 - the closest
men's finish in league history - and bested DePauw by eight
points in 1998. The 1998 race is the only time that the top two
teams have posted sub 50 point scores (39 to 47).
For more on the top SCAC Men's Cross Country moment, including an
interview with Coach Robert Shankman, click here.