Promising start for Cross Country at the Gopher Twilight

The Goucher College cross country teams hosted the Go-Pher The Goal Twilight Meet on Friday where they joined forces with Go 4 The Goal organization to raise awareness and collect donations for pediatric cancer.  Goucher runners wore gold shoelaces for the event and Lancaster Bible, Alvernia, Dickinson and Stevenson also supported the cause and wore the gold shoelaces to help raise awareness.

Despite taking the helm at Goucher in January of 2020, Head Coach Erick Camodeca ('06) led the Gophers Cross Country team in their first race of his tenure.  The women's team had an especially strong start to the season with Avery McEachern (Cincinnati, OH/Summit Country Day) and Reese Finnigan (Dallas, TX/Grapevine) capturing a top ten finishes for the women.  Emma Kistner (Woodlawn, MD/Mount de Sales) and Maria James (Westminster, MD/Westminster) also had solid performances with top 20 finishes.

"By the way the women's team competed today you would never be able to tell it was all first years out there. They executed well by running with each other, competing against the field, each other and themselves. Looking forward to each week as we continue to establish our style of racing." – Head Coach Erick Camodeca ('06).

Shawn Pelote (Upper Marlboro, MD/Bishop McNamara) paced the men's team with a top 15 finish.

About Go 4 The Goal
Our unwavering mission is to improve the lives of children battling cancer by providing financial support, developing and implementing unique hospital programs, funding innovative research, and granting personal wishes. Through our firsthand experience with pediatric cancer and our medical background, Go4theGoal provides the best practices to patients, their families, and the hospitals and staff that care for them.

Lace Up 4 Pediatric Cancer® started in 2011 in answer to requests from youth soccer teams in New Jersey that wanted to show their commitment to the fight against pediatric cancer. Today, teams across the country representing every sport from youth to professional have Laced Up in Go4theGoal's GOLD laces.

Go4theGoal was founded in 2006 only weeks after Richard Stefanacci was diagnosed with Ewing's Sarcoma, a rare bone cancer. After a yearlong battle, Richard lost his fight with cancer just a few months shy of his 15th birthday.

Though Richard lost his battle, Go4theGoal's determination to continue our mission remained and was only strengthened when his cousin Blake was diagnosed with another rare cancer, Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma, on March 11, 2010. Blake bravely fought her cancer and is now a 10-year survivor enjoying all the normal thrills of being a teenage girl!