PITTSFORD, N.Y. – Following the team's first Empire 8 Conference Championship in the program's history, eight Cardinals of the St. John Fisher College women's cross country squad were selected to All-Conference teams as announced by the conference office on Thursday.
Riley Corey was tabbed as the Empire 8's Runner of the Year following her dominant performance in the shortened 2021 season. The 2019 Rookie of the Year posted two first-place finishes in two races, including a 34-second runaway victory in the Empire 8 Women's Cross Country Championship's 5,000-meter race. This year marks her second consecutive first-team selection and is her second major award as a Cardinal.
The sophomore Waterloo native raced a career-best 15:44.0 in the season-opening Fisher-Rodenbeck Invitational's 4K race and also set a personal record in the cross country 5K with her time of 18:43.1 at Houghton's Field of Dreams Course in the Championship meet. Corey became the first-ever Fisher Women's Cross Country runner to achieve the individual title and led her team to securing the Empire 8 team championship.
Corey is joined on the conference's first team by junior,
Morgan Gould, and by freshmen,
Lauren DeMichele,
Laura Witt, and
Chelsea Lamphere.
Gould concluded the 2021 cross country season with her best performances to date, including personal bests in the 4K and 5K races, which garnered the junior the second All-Conference selection of her career.
DeMichele, Witt, and Lamphere all had breakout seasons for the Cardinals as the trio posted top-10 finishes this year. DeMichele posted her best finish in the Empire 8 Championship as she claimed fourth place in a time of 19:35.5. Witt finished as the runner up at the at the Fisher-Rodenbeck Invite as she crossed the finish line in 15:53.5 while Lamphere grabbed a sixth place finish in the same race after finishing in 16:27.8.
Alivia Collins nabbed her second-career second team honor as the junior had her best finish of the season at the home meet with an 11
th place finish. Joining her on second team was freshman,
Abigail Perry, who finished 17
th at the E8 Championship.
Marinna Raqueno was named the team's Empire 8 Sportswoman of the Year, a teammate who "Competes with Honor and Integrity" – "an essential component of the student-athlete's experience in conjunction with conjunction with an institution's educational mission. These honorees have distinguished themselves and consistently exhibit the critical traits as outstanding sportswomen."
St. John Fisher's coaching staff, led by Head Coach
Mike Henchen, was recognized as the Empire 8's Women's Cross Country Coaching Staff of the year, as their team secured the program's first team title in its 10-year history and landed eight all-conference selections.
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