Men's Cross Country 8/25/2025 Steven Merritt, Director of Athletic Communications

Cross Country Begins 2025 Slate With Vassar Season Starter

Women's squad has won back-to-back Liberty League Championships

Poughkeepsie, NY - The Vassar College Men's and Women's Cross Country teams will begin the 2025 campaign at the Vassar Farm on Friday evening with the Vassar Season Starter beginning at 6:00 p.m.

WOMEN'S TEAM AT A GLANCE

The Brewers defended its Liberty League crown in 2024 as Vassar scored 36 points to defeat runner-up RPI, who tallied 41 points, at the Ronald C. Hoffman Cross Country Course in Canton, NY.
Vassar once again earned an at-large team bid to the NCAA Division III Championships and earned a new program-best 20th place overall finish.
Junior Haley Schoenegge collected the program's best ever finish at the NCAA Division III Championships as she recorded a national runner-up finish to help Vassar to a new program record team finish to garner All-American status
Schoenegge earned the Liberty League individual title with a time of 20:59.6 to set the new course record and Liberty League Championship record time. She also earned the league's Runner of the Year honor following her championship performance.
Vassar returns All-Liberty League First Team honoree in junior Adelaide Nyhan along with Second Team selections in juniors Norah Reade and Cayley Swaim.
The Brewers also return Honorable Mention honoree in junior Acadia Helfand to the squad.
The Brewers scored four first-place team finishes last season along with a runner-up finish at the Wesleyan Invitational.

NEWCOMERS

The Brewers add seven first-years to the mix in 2025 as Sophie Cosgrove, Malaika Dechet-Wetzel, Cate Feudtner, Ava Fisher, Finola Jackson, Taylor Vogt and Emerson Wyatt will all look to make an instant impact for Vassar.

NATIONAL/REGIONAL RANKINGS

The Brewers checked in at #16 nationally in the preseason USTFCCCA National Coaches Poll to begin 2025.
Vassar ranks fourth in the preseason NCAA Mideast Region rankings and is the top ranked Liberty League team ahead of RPI and St. Lawrence.

MEN'S TEAM AT A GLANCE

Vassar recorded a third place finish at the Liberty League Championship with 92 points, only behind nationally-ranked RPI and St. Lawrence
Vassar returns All-Liberty League Honorable Mention and NCAA individual qualifier in junior Sean Miller but will have to replace Second Team honoree Jose Magana.
VC was victorious at the season-opening Vassar Season Starter and Ron Stonitsch Invitational before finishing third at the conference championship meet and second at the ECAC Championship meet.
The Brewers tallied an eighth place finish at the Mideast Regional meet with Miller finishing 16th overall in a career-best time and earned All-Region status.

NEWCOMERS

The Brewers will look to first year's Jay Borland, Jack Brilliant, Grey Fearon, Maslen L'Esperance, Riley Magill, Rafael Mellow-Baretls and Lincoln Neiswender to provide immediate impact in 2025.

REGIONAL RANKINGS

Vassar ranks eighth in the preseason NCAA Mideast Region rankings and is the the third overall Liberty League school behind top-ranked RPI and seventh-ranked St. Lawrence.

THE SCHEDULE

Vassar will open the season with two home meets with the Season Starter on August 29 and the Ron Stonitsch Invitational on September 13.
The Brewers will then travel to Fred Pavlich Invitational at Bard and the Pre-National Invitational in South Carolina on September 20 followed by the Paul Short Run at Lehigh on October 3.
The Conn College Invitational will be the final tune-up on October 18 before the Liberty League Championship at St. Lawrence on November 1.
The NCAA Mideast Regional Championship at St. Lawrence will be on November 15 followed by the NCAA Division III Championships in Spartansburg, South Carolina on November 22.

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