Women's Cross Country Hosts PL Championships Saturday, Going for Fourth Straight Title

Saturday, October 27

Lewisburg, Pa.

11 a.m.

Bucknell University

Patriot League Championships

Gronbeck Named PL Cross Country Female Rookie of the Week

Women's Cross Country Hosts PL Championships Saturday, Going for Fourth Straight Title

10/25/2018 12:18:00 PM | Women's Cross Country

The Bison Have Won Eight League Titles Under Head Coach Kevin Donner

Setting the Scene
What: Patriot League Championships
When: Saturday, Oct. 27 (11 a.m.)
Where: Bucknell Cross Country Course (Lewisburg, Pa.)
Live Results: LeoneTiming.com

Bucknell Lineup
Jenna Farmer, Colleen Buckley, Anna Chiodo-Ortiz, Emma Dolen, Lauren Hazzard, Margaret Thomson, Christine O'Kane, Ashley Blair, Madeleine Hunt, Payton Capes, Nora Bennett, Lauren Gronbeck

About the Bison
• The Patriot League Championships are being held at Bucknell for the first time since 2004.
• Bucknell has won three straight Patriot League titles. A three-peat has only happened four times in league history and three of the four were accomplished by the Bison.
• The Bison have won the Patriot League title 11 times since the conference was formed in 1990. Eight of those titles have come with Kevin Donner as head coach.
• Bucknell has won the individual title in back-to-back seasons. Senior Colleen Buckley is the team's top returning runner with a third-place finish last season.
• Buckley's third-place finish earned her First Team All-Patriot League recognition. Jenna Farmer took 13^th and earned Second Team status.
• Bucknell has had two or more runners earn All-Patriot League honors in each of the past eight seasons. • Buckley will attempt to become the eighth runner in Bucknell history to earn three All-Patriot League accolades in cross country. It would be the second straight year a Bison runner accomplished the feat.
• Bucknell is ranked eighth in the most recent Mid-Atlantic Region rankings. The Bison are the highest of the Patriot League teams in that region. Navy is ranked ninth and Lehigh is 13th.

Patriot League Championship History
• Bucknell's 11 Patriot League titles are the most in the conference, while Army West Point is second with five. Navy (4), American (2), Boston University (2), and Fordham (2) have also won multiple titles. Lehigh, Lafayette, and Colgate have won one apiece.
• Twenty-nine runners have earned three or more All-Patriot League honors. Bucknell has had eight three-time honorees.
• The last three titles – all captured by Bucknell – have been won by an average of 30 points. Last year, the Bison finished with a score of 58, while runner-up Army West Point scored 79.
• Boston University was the last team other than Bucknell to win the team title, doing so in both 2013 and 2014. The Terriers and the Bison actually tied in 2014, but it was the first year that a tiebreaker was utilized to determine the outright champion.
• Bucknell is attempting to become the third team in league history to win four straight league titles. Army won from 1994-97, while the Bison won from 1998-2001.

Weekly Awards Won by the Bison
• Patriot League Runner of the Week (4) – Colleen Buckley (9/25, 10/16), Payton Capes (9/11), Tiara Tardy (10/23)
• Patriot League Rookie of the Week (2) – Emily Deschler (9/11), Olivia Dyer (10/23)

Up Next
• The Bison will run at the Mid-Atlantic Regional, hosted by Penn State on Friday, Nov. 9.