ATTLEBORO, Mass. (October 29, 2022) – The Georgetown women and the Villanova men were the team winners at the BIG EAST Cross Country Championships Presented by JEEP held at the Highland Park Course in Attleboro, Mass., in sunny conditions with temperatures in the high 50s.
 
Providence freshman Jane Buckley captured individual women’s honors with a time of 20:06 in the 6K race. She is only the second freshman to win the women’s race. The first was Michele Hallett of Boston College who won the first BIG EAST Women’s Cross Country title in 1982. Buckley finished two seconds ahead of last year’s champion, Georgetown’s Maggie Donahue, who recorded a time of 20:08.
 
Georgetown took the women’s team title with five runners finishing in the top 10. Grace Jensen finished third with a time of 20:17. Katy-Ann McDonald was fifth at 20:18. Sami Corman (20:38) and Chloe Gonzalez (20:43) were ninth and 10^th, respectively.
 
The Providence women finished second to Georgetown. The Friars were helped by Shannon Flockhart’s fourth-place finish at 20:18. Lily Tuck was sixth at 20:27. Georgetown finished with 29 points. Providence had 40 points.
 
In the men’s 8K race, Butler’s Barry Keane outkicked Villanova’s Haftu Strintzos to win the individual crown. Keane’s time was 23:15. Strintzos finished in 23:21. Keane took third place in last year’s Championship. Strintzos was the runner-up for a second straight year.  
 
Strintzos led five Villanova finishers in the top 10. Liam Murphy was third with a time of 23:28 followed by Charlie Donovan (23:34) in fifth, Jack Jennings (23:37) in seventh and Josh Phillips (23:34) in 10^th. Villanova’s team total was 27 points. Providence was the men’s runner-up with 55 points. The Friars were led by sixth-place Marcelo Rocha (23:36) and eighth-place D.J. Principe (23:37). It was Rocha’s third career top-10 finish.
 
Men’s Individual Leaders

1. Barry Keane, Butler                       23:15
2. Haftu Strintzos, Villanova            23:21
3. Laim Murphy, Villanova               23:28
4. Parker Stokes, Georgetown         23:33
5. Charlie O’Donavan, Villanova     23:34
6. Marcelo Rocha, Providence         23:36
7. Jack Jennings, Villanova               23:37
8. D.J. Principe, Providence              23:37
9. Sean Laidlaw, Georgetown          23:42
10. Josh Phillips, Villanova                 23:43   

 
Men’s Team Leaders

1. Villanova            27
2. Providence         55
3. Georgetown      68
4. Butler                  75
5. DePaul               164
6. Creighton           196
7. Xavier                210
8. Marquette         214
9. Seton Hall          280

Women’s Individual Leaders

1. Jane Buckley, Providence            20:06
2. Maggie Donahue, Georgetown   20:08
3. Grace Jensen, Georgetown         20:17
4. Shannon Flockhart, Providence  20:18
5. Katy-Ann McDonald, Gtown       20:18
6. Lily Tuck, Providence                    20:27
7. Randi Burr, Connecticut               20:31
8. Mia Beckham, Butler                   20:32
9. Sami Corman, Georgetown         20:38
10. Chloe Gonzalez, Georgetown     20:43

Women’s Team Leaders

1. Georgetown      29
2. Providence         40
3. Connecticut       89
4. Villanova            119
5. Butler                 127
6. DePaul                167
7. Xavier                  192
8. Creighton           268
9. Marquette         272
10. Seton Hall           299
11. St. John’s            301