Issue date: 9/15/06 Section: Sports

The men's cross-country team practices along Eastern's pond.

The Cabrini College cross country team is looking forward to an exciting new fall season lead by head coach Tom O'Hora who is going into his 25th year of guiding the Cavaliers.

The athletes run six days a week with a 2 ½ to 3-mile run at 7 a.m. There are also practices at 3:30, which include running workouts and sometimes weight training. The team has meets on Saturdays, which leaves them with Fridays to rest.

Although the schedule seems rigorous, the women's team head captain Carolyn Roberts, a junior exersice science and health promotion major here at Cabrini, says that it is all worth it.

In addition, Roberts is a resident assistant, which also consumes her time, but she still works hard and has high hopes for this season.

Being a state champion from her high school of Gwynedd Mercy Academy, and also the number one freshman in the region her first year of cross country at Cabrini, Roberts has reason to believe they can do well.

The team competes against Pennsylvania Athletic Conference schools like Alvernia, Misericordia, and Gwynedd Mercy, and other schools such as Delaware Valley College, Immaculata and DeSales. Lehigh University is a school where the team also looks to compete against some tougher competition this season as well.

Freshman accounting major Jess Bogia and freshman educational studies major Samantha Gerke have joined the women's team this season. There are also the returning athletes like Roberts and junior accounting major, Chris Sweeney of the men's team.

Sweeney, a junior said, "We are definitely shooting for second in PACs as a team."

One of Cabrini's main rivals is Misericordia, but the team is also hoping to beat Gwynedd-Mercy in order to obtain the second place status.

The team withdrew from its scheduled Sept. 2 Del Val Invitational meet to avoid injury and sickened after the bad weather, but there are many upcoming events on the cross-country teams calendar.

Sept. 19 there is the Keystone College invitational, and the following week there is the Mule/Falcon invitational to be attended at Cedar Crest College.

At end the month there is also the Philadelphia Metro Meet at Belmont Plateau on Sept. 23, and the Belmont Classic also at Belmont Plateau on Sept. 30.

The PAC championships will be held on Oct 28 at Byron Complex in Dallas, Pa. Last year Sweeney placed sixth and junior Justin Walsh placed seventh. The team as a whole came in fourth in the competition, this year hoping for a higher place of second.





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