It was a successful season for the Syracuse Orange cross-country teams when they qualified for last weekend’s NCAA Championships. Both teams overcame some rough patches to head to Tallahassee with some momentum but unfortunately the injury bug struck at an inopportune time.
Top women’s runner Amanda Vestri was kept on the sideline with an injury and another top-five runner Holly Bent was also unavailable. That left Syracuse with five freshmen and sophomores competing in their 1st NCAA meet and that group was able to run as a strong pack for the 6k course. Syracuse finished 30th out of 31 teams but each runner improved over the last half of the race and the top five runners finished within 24 seconds.