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XC’s Small Senior Class Showed Good Work Ethic

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With the fall sports season coming to a close, men’s cross country seniors Sage Canaday, Jimmy Wyner, David Krause and Mike Smayda are all facing the end of their collegiate cross country careers. Although Canaday and Wyner will soon be making the transition into the winter track season, the presence and contributions of the teammates will be missed next year.
Canaday has been a leading scorer for the team this season as well as a strong leader as a co-captain. His impressive season included qualifying for the Olympic trials and the NCAA national championship, the only Red runner to do so. Canaday didn’t come to Cornell as a particularly highly touted recruit, though.

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W. Swimming Aims to Improve

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The women’s swimming team is optimistic as it returns to the water this weekend after a disappointing past season. Having finished eighth at the Ivy League championship meet last February, it can only look upwards.
“Our primary goal is to improve the number of points we score at Ivies,” said woman’s coach John Holohan.
The team gained 12 new freshmen this year who are already expected to be an influential and crucial part of the team.
Among the newcomers are stand-out freshmen Laura DeCesare, Meg Farrington, Lyla Youssef and Ana Goya Arce, who was a national team qualifier in her home country Mexico.
“They’re all going to make an immediate contribution,” Holohan said.

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Swimming Squads Start Against Harvard, Dartmouth

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The men’s and women’s swimming teams dive into action this weekend for their first dual meets of the season. Both squads will be competing against Harvard and Dartmouth at Dartmouth, with the men swimming today and the women swimming tomorrow. The players said Harvard will present the biggest challenge.
The men’s team begins its season following what was possibly the best season in Cornell history.
“I think we have the core of a very good team,” said Lucia. “This team has its own identity.”

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XC Heads to Boston for NCAA Regionals

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The men’s and women’s cross country teams spring back into action this weekend in Boston. As one of the last meets of the season, the NCAA Regional championships will prove to be a competitive race for both teams.
The men’s team is going into the meet this weekend riding off an excellent season and a second place finish at the Heps two weekends ago. The Red will be running its top-7 runners from that meet on Saturday.
“As a team, we want to prove we’re one of the top teams in the Northeast,” said men’s assistant coach Robert Johnson. “We’re currently ranked fourth; we’d like to finish at least that high.”

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Men’s XC Places Second at Heps

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The top-12 runners from the men’s and women’s cross country teams traveled to New York City this past Friday to compete in the Heps championships. The Heps, which took place at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, featured teams from each school in the Ancient Eight. While the Cornell men walked away pleased with a second-place finish and the team’s top preformance since 1993, the women returned home with dashed expectations after finishing seventh.

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Edelman Works Way Into Heps With Tight Win

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When freshman cross country runner Nate Edelman squeezed out a first-place finish this past Sunday at the Reif Memorial Run, he earned more than his first career win. His victory by a tenth of a second won him the last spot on the 12-man team competing Heps this weekend.
“I went into [the race] thinking I had a good chance to win.” Edelman said. “My strategy was to stay with the pack until mile three, then break away.”
Edelman, who’s been running cross country as part of a team since junior year of high school, is perhaps a less seasoned runner than many of his teammates. However, Edelman said that his running career at Cornell has already started off really well.
“I feel like I’ve improved every race this season,” he said.

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Harrier Squads Compete at Home

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This weekend, the men’s and women’s cross country teams get a rest from traveling as they compete in their second home meets of the season. The Red will host the John Reif Memorial Run at the Moakley Course this afternoon, which will feature their less experienced and younger runners.
The Memorial Run is held annually to honor John Reif ’86, who was a member of the cross country and track teams during his time at Cornell. Reif died in 1987 while training for a triathlon.
“He had always been a contributing member of the team and loved cross country,” said women’s head coach Lou Duesing. “[The race is] part of the tradition we have at Cornell.”

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Two Days of Travel for Red

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The men’s and women’s cross country teams are looking at a full weekend of races, starting this morning with both teams competing at the Penn State National Invitational. Tomorrow, the women will race again in nearby Rochester while top runners from the men’s team will compete the same morning farther away in Indianapolis.
The men’s team has 11 of its younger runners currently at Penn State for the Penn State National Invitational on the University Park campus. Today’s invitational will give some of the newer and less experienced runners on the team a chance to shine.

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Catching Up With Women's Basketball

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While they don’t officially begin practicing until October 12th, the women’s basketball team has been busy preparing for the upcoming season, both on and off the court.
Currently four weeks into the preseason, the girls spend three days a week on strengthening and conditioning, and two days a week working with coaches. Many players spent the summer in the gym and playing as many pick-up games that they could fit into their schedules.
New to the team and playing basketball in America, freshman Susie Doyle — who hails from Ireland.,
“Everyone’s working really hard,” Doyle said.
Although they haven’t been allowed to have any team practices yet, they’ve been able to practice in small groups together.
“I am starting to recognize how people play,” Doyle said.

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Golf Takes Third on Road

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While most students returned to classes yesterday after a beautiful weekend, the Cornell golf team returned to the Bartlett Country Club golf course yesterday morning to take third place overall in the 19th annual Leo Keenan St. Bonaventure Invitational.
After the first round on Sunday, the Red were seventh in a fourteen-team field with a team score of 301, 21 strokes above par and just four shots above the two teams in fifth place. Senior Bret Perry led Cornell with a 73 after the first day, followed closely by sophomore Robert Cronheim’s 74.