Former Conference Recognizes Pair of Male Runners

YORK, Pa. — As one of only two male cross country runners to place first at the Capital Athletic Conference Championships three times during his career, it was a foregone conclusion that Jeff Olenick would be a member of the league's Silver Anniversary Men's Cross Country Team.

But in Kevin Probst, Goucher had a second representative on the team, which was made public for the first time this morning.

The CAC, which accepted Goucher as a member in 1991, is in the first month of its 25th year of intercollegiate varsity competition, and to recognize the occasion, it plans to announce a Silver Anniversary Team in 19 championship sports over the course of the 2014-15 academic year. Each Silver Anniversary Team will feature 25 former or current standout student-athletes and the process which determined the make-up of the teams was primarily based on season-ending conference awards as voted by the conference's head coaches.

Goucher remained a member of the CAC for 16 years before leaving to join the Landmark Conference in 2007.

Olenick, who has been inducted into the Goucher College Athletic Hall of Fame and has had his jersey retired by the institution's athletics department, won the first of his three CAC men's cross country titles in 1997 as a freshman. He went on to place seventh in a field of 246 runners that year at the NCAA Division III Mideast Regionals and became the first runner from Goucher to qualify for the NCAA Divison III Championships.

The other two times that Olenick was the first runner across the finish line at the CAC meet were 1999 and 2000.

Olenick, a four-time, first-team All-CAC selection, closed out his Goucher cross country career by placing third at the Mideast Regional meet and then ninth at the 2000 NCAA Division III Championship in Spokane, Wash., to become the first Division III All-America runner in school history.

Probst preceded Olenick as his running career with the Gophers began in 1992 when he placed 10th overall at the CAC Championships. He moved up four spots to sixth place as a sophomore the following year, earning first-team All-CAC honors.

In his final season at Goucher, Probst again was a first-team all-conference selection as he finished as the runner-up to Jon Gates from Mary Washington at the 1995 CAC meet.

For the entire CAC Silver Anniversary Men's Cross Country Team, click here.