{"id":378445,"date":"2026-10-21T00:32:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T00:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/378445\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T00:32:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T00:32:21","slug":"cross-country-teams-finish-strong-at-manhattan-university-invitational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/378445\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross Country Teams Finish Strong at Manhattan University Invitational"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_4258-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"kids in track &amp; field uniforms standing for picture\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-42888\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, October 10, our boys\u2019 and girls\u2019 cross country teams had the honor of competing in the 54th annual Manhattan University Cross Country Invitational meet at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, New York. It is considered one of the largest single day cross country events in the nation. Over 8,000 runners from nearly 500 schools across New York and several other states participated in this race.<\/p>\n<p>Runners who placed in the top 75 of each race received a medal. Pine Bush finished with a total of 26 individual medal winners. Here are the final results from each race:<\/p>\n<p>Boys\u2019 Modified Race: Finished 10th out of 14 teams (167 total runners)<br \/>Medalists: Ryan Cosh and Landon Leonard.<\/p>\n<p>Girls\u2019 Modified Race: Finished 2nd out of 10 teams (141 total runners)<br \/>Medalists: Emily Angel, Abigail Atwell, Grayce Ferry, Tess Hoehmann, Hailey Jameson, Shea Hundley, and Juliana Perez.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_8961-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"cross country team standing together for picture\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-42887 size-full\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Boys\u2019 Freshman Race: Finished 4th out of 13 teams (155 total runners)<br \/>Medalists: Spencer Angel, Casey Carbone, Israel Cecchini, Noah Doyle, Thomas Monahan, and Edmund Trad.<\/p>\n<p>Girls\u2019 Freshman Race: Finished 8th out of 11 teams (119 total runners)<br \/>Medalists: Harleigh Gaucher, Sara Hoover, Destiny Vasquez, and Harley Yannone.<\/p>\n<p>Boys\u2019 Sophomore Race: Finished 15th out of 18 teams (197 total runners) <br \/>Medalists: Azariah Diaz and Gabriel Walsh.<br \/>Girls\u2019 Sophomore Race: No placement; need at least 5 runners to field a team (154 total runners)<br \/>Medalists: April Owuor, Allison Potter, and Catherine Sadaghiani.<\/p>\n<p>Boys\u2019 Varsity Race: Finished 25th out of 32 teams (211 total runners)<br \/>Medalist: Noah Freestone.<br \/>Girls\u2019 Varsity Race: No placement; need at least 5 runners to field a team (226 total runners)<br \/>Medalist: Julianne Gabriele.<\/p>\n<p>Fantastic job by our boys\u2019 and girls\u2019 cross country runners and congratulations to our medal winners!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_4263-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"two cross country players standing together\" width=\"525\" height=\"700\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-42889\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_1094-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"two cross country players standing for picture\" width=\"525\" height=\"700\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-42886\"  \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Saturday, October 10, our boys\u2019 and girls\u2019 cross country teams had the honor of competing in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-378445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}