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The 32nd annual Centennial Conference men's cross country championship is set for Saturday, Nov. 1 at Gettysburg College. Gettysburg will host the championship for the eighth time overall and first time since 2019. The Bullets have hosted the CC meet more times than any other school in the conference. The men's 8,000-meter race will open up the day at 11 a.m., followed by the women's 6,000-meter race at noon.
Johns Hopkins will look to extend its winning streak to four years in a row on Saturday. At least year's championship, the Blue Jays placed six runners in the top seven and totaled 19 points in the team standings to run away with the team title. It marked the fifth overall CC crown for the Blue Jays, with their 19-point total being tied for the fifth-lowest in CC history.
JHU and Haverford have won every CC title since 2010, with Haverford claiming nine of those and JHU with five. Overall, Haverford owns 24 team titles, the most among any team across all 24 Centennial sports. Hopkins (5) and Dickinson (2) are the only two other teams to have won CC men's cross country crowns.
Hopkins is ranked third in the latest U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) national rankings, while four CC teams are currently in the regional rankings. In the Metro region, Swarthmore is second and Haverford is third, while Hopkins (1st) and Dickinson (4th) represent the CC in the Mid-Atlantic regional rankings.
JHU's Emmanuel Leblond headlines the list of competitors racing on Saturday. The two-time defending individual champion, Leblond will aim to become just the second runner in conference history to win three CC individual titles, along with former Haverford standout Karl Paranya (1994-95-96). He is already one of just six runners in CC history - and the only JHU runner - to have won the individual championship at least twice. A top-seven placing would also make Leblond just the third runner in conference history to earn All-Centennial first team honors four times in a career (Paranya 1993-94-95-96 & Dickinson's Brian Krusell 2007-08-09-10 were the others). Leblond has put together a stellar regular season, earning top-six finishes in each of the three meets in which he competed, securing CC Runner of the Week thrice and USTFCCCA National Runner of the Week honors twice.
Twelve runners that have earned All-Centennial honors throughout their careers will seek repeat all-star honors on Saturday. Leblond leads a nine-runner contingent of returning all-stars for the Blue Jays along with Rowan Cassidy (two-time honoree), Brady Ott, Kenny Wanlass, Connor Oiler, Olaf Dietz, Andrew Myers, Nash Minor, and Matt Kelly.
Swarthmore's Cohen Manges will aim for the third All-CC honor of his career while the Dickinson duo of Alexander Kane and Nathan Caldwell will view to return to the awards podium after securing all-conference awards back in 2023.
Other team leaders to watch out for at the championship include Dickinson's Luke Knestout, F&M's Tommy Tapino and Zach Houff, Gettysburg's Asher Leuzzi and Maddon McNicholas, Haverford's Micah Lachman and Simon Lane, McDaniel's Jack Sears, Muhlenberg's Matthew Hajel and Andrew Smolowitz, Swarthmore's Matthew Fleming and Jasper Mosley, and Ursinus' Liam Johnston and Elias Knoll.
