Men's Cross Country/Track & Field All-Decade Team Announced
BALTIMORE, Md. - After a week of online voting, Goucher Athletics has announced the Men's Cross Country and Track & Field All-Decade Team. We would like to thank everyone that voted! Congratulations to the members of the 2010s Goucher College Men's Cross Country and Track & Field All-Decade Team.
To be eligible for the All-Decade Team, a student-athlete must have competed for at least one season between the 2010 and 2019 seasons. They also must be a graduate or still enrolled at Goucher College. In addition, only the statistics during the years of 2010 and 2019 are eligible so statistics that occur before the year 2010 or after the year 2019 do not count toward the All-Decade team vote.
We have completed 14 all-decade team votes and you can check out those team results HERE. We will wrap up the All-Decade votes with the Equestrian All-Decade vote starting on Monday and we look to cross the 3,500 votes threshold.
CROSS COUNTRY: Troy Browne, Zachary Byrum, Hugh Geller, Nick Manta, Joey Negreann
SPRINTS: Will Evans III, Mia Taylor
MIDDLE DISTANCE/DISTANCE: Troy Browne, Andrew Gethins, Adam Scipione
JUMPS: Doug Falk, Chris Litz
THROWS: Darby Bauer, Lovell Kosh
CROSS COUNTRY
Browne, a Springdale, Md., native competed for the cross country team from 2010 to 2013. He notched his best finish at the Landmark Conference Championships in his sophomore campaign with a 42nd-place finish and a time of 27:39.90.
Byrum, a Stafford, Va., native, ran for the harriers from 2011 to 2014. He posted his time at the conference meet as a freshman with a time of 29:50.40 while he notched his best finish in his final season after placing 53rd.
Geller, a Devens, Mass., native, was with the Blue and Gold cross country team from 2010 to 2013. He registered his best time in his sophomore season at the championships with a time of 27:42.60 and ended his career with a personal-best 23rd-place standing his senior year.
Manta, a North Wales, Pa., native, ran three seasons in the decade for the Gophers from 2010 to 2012. Manta recorded his best time and finish in 2011 after placing 22nd with a time of 26:47.80.
Negreann, a Denver, Colo., native, only ran for two seasons in the decade, but he was wrapping up a standout career that including finishing second in 2010 (26:49.80) and seventh in 2011 (25:09.50) to earn All-Landmark Conference first-team nods. Negreann was the second cross country runner in program history to compete at the NCAA Division III Championships, finishing 133rd with a time of 25:30.78 in his senior campaign.
SPRINTS
Evans, a Baltimore, Md., native, finished his career with six medals for the Blue and Gold between the indoor and outdoor seasons between 2009 and 2013 including four all-conference honors. He won the 60m with a time of 7:13 as a junior and finished second in the 55m (6.69) and the 200m (23.25) during the indoor season. Evans also earned the silver medal twice in his junior year during the outdoor season in the 100m (11.08) and 200m (22.75). He also earned a bronze medal in the high jump (1.78m) in his freshman indoor season.
Taylor, a Bowie, Md., native, finished in the Top-10 three times in his time from 2015 to 2019. He earned a bronze medal in the 100m hurdles as a freshman during the outdoor season with a time of 15.93 and just missed a medal during the indoor season after placing fourth in the 60m hurdles (9.03).
MIDDLE DISTANCE/DISTANCE
Browne competed in the 800m from 2010 to 2014 for the track and field team. He narrowly missed a medal at the championships with a fourth-place standing and a time of 1:57.19 during the outdoor season.
Gethins, a Yorktown, N.Y., native, went the distance for the squad from 2009 to 2012. He notched a 12th-place finish in the 3000m steeplechase and a time of 11:41.11 for his best finish at the championships in his career in his senior year.
Scipione, a Wolpole, Mass., native, finished in the Top-10 twice in his two seasons in the decade from 2009 to 2011. He finished eighth in the 800m (2:02.55) during the outdoor championships in his senior year and ninth in the mile run (4:40.40) in the indoor championships in 2010.
JUMPS
Falk, a Barnegat, N.J., native, was a successful high jumper for the Gophers from 2011 to 2014. He earn a pair of All-Landmark Conference second-team nods in his first two seasons during the outdoor championships. Falk placed second in the high jump as a freshman with a leap of 1.88m and then repeated as the silver medalist the next season with a distance of 1.83m.
Litz, a Bel Air, Md., native, was a pole vaulter for the Blue and Gold from 2009 to 2011 in the decade. He finished fifth twice in the event in the outdoor season and won a bronze medal in 2010 during the outdoor championships with a distance of 4.25m.
THROWS
Bauer, a Perkiomenville, Pa., native, tallied 10 Top-10 standings at the championships for the Gophers in the throws from 2016 to 2019. He had his best finish in his junior year with a fifth-place standing in the discus with a toss of 38.81m during the outdoor championships in Baltimore as a junior and finished in the Top-10 three times in that two-day event.
Kosh, a Chester, Pa., native, finished in the Top-10 in the throws nine times for the track and field team from 2009 to 2012. He registered a bronze medal in the shot put with a hurl of 12.74m in his senior year while posted a sixth-place finish in the weight throw with a distance of 12.17m for his best finish during the decade for the indoor season.