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Wilson Top Runner at AMCC Championship

Release Date:
November 1, 2010
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Pittsburgh, PA – The Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference held the women’s cross country championships October 30 at Schenley Park with all ten member institutions participating. Franciscan University of Steubenville, led by freshman Nicole Krajewski, won their third straight women’s conference title. The Barons captured 5 of the top ten positions securing the low score of 28 points. Krajewski (18:36.0) out-distanced D’Youville College’s Anya Bogdanets by 15 seconds stealing the championship from Bogdanets who consistently had been named AMCC Runner of the Week since September.  

Running in her first race of the year, junior Laura Wilson (Buffalo, NY/Grover Cleveland) was the fastest Hilbert runner (38th place) in 27:16.4. The Hawks 9th place finish (236 points) was supported by Lanie Harrington (29:41.0), Stephanie Layman (32:26.6), Stephanie Smith (38:34.6) and Sam Mattocks (39:45.6).
2010 Women’s AMCC Championships
1.       Franciscan – 28 points
2.       Penn State Behrend – 39 points
3.       Penn State Altoona – 106 points
4.       D’Youville – 116 points
5.       Mount Aloysius – 143 points
6.       Medaille – 175 points
7.       Pitt Greensburg – 181 points
8.       Pitt Bradford – 184 points
9.       Hilbert – 236 points
10.   La Roche incomplete

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Hilbert College, located in suburban Hamburg, N.Y., south of Buffalo, is a private four-year college founded in 1957 in the Catholic Franciscan tradition. With nearly 1,100 students, Hilbert is a dynamic Western New York college that offers career-focused majors, including one of the top criminal justice programs in the region, and more than 50 minors and concentrations. The college’s engaging, student-centered campus community offers numerous leadership, internship and service learning opportunities from which students launch successful careers while making positive changes in their communities. Hilbert has expanded its academic offerings with the college’s first graduate programs, one a master’s in criminal justice administration and the other a master’s in public administration, and new Accelerated Degree Programs geared to adult learners.