Meet Central – Canisius Alumni Classic
Date: Oct. 19
Location: Buffalo, N.Y. | Delaware Park
X: GriffsRun
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The Canisius cross country team wraps up their regular season at their annual Canisius Alumni Classic.
On the men's side junior Kyle Urban is the top returning runner from last season's race placing seventh. Graduate students Max Chew and Pat Garland both posted top-20 finishes last season as well.
The women's team returns three top-10 finishers from last season, graduate student Jules Jones in third, senior Kayla Schmidt in fifth and junior Jacqueline Appenheimer in ninth.
Two weeks ago both teams competed in the Paul Short Run where the men finished 13th and the women placed 11th.
Schmidt paced the Griffs in the women's bronze division 6k race,with a 16th place finish as she crossed the tape in 21:59.8. Appenheimer (22:33.0/39th), freshman Ella Krumpek (23:03.5/89th), Jones (23:19.5/112th) and senior Taylor Heschke (23:24.7/124th) completed the top five women's runners for Canisius.
Racing in the bronze division 8k event, Urban turned in a time of 25:21.5 to place 27th. Sophomore Joseph Capuzzo (26:07.7/75th), senior Collin Rice (26:11.7/82nd), Chew (26:21.7/104th) and junior Brody Jones (26:22.6/106th) rounded out the top five male runners for the Golden Griffins
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