GBC Track & xc

Welcome to the Men's and Woman's Goldey-Beacom Cross Country and Spring Team website.

CACC XC Championships 10/2/14

Chandler Brooks and Aaron Easter both achieve All CACC

The Goldey-Beacom men improve from their 2013 4th place finish at the conference meet to give head coach, Brian Conley, his best finish at the meet. Goldey-Beacom's 3rd place team finish was led by Captain, Aaron Easter, placing 5th overall followed by freshman, Chandler Brooks, in 8th place. Brooks also was the recipient of the Male Rookie of the Year. Another runner for the men with a perfectly run race was freshman, Justin Morris, with a 24th place finish.

Fredrick MD.

Hood College XC Meet 10/18/14

Freshman McCullom becomes fastest 6k runner in the college's history of the sport

The Women's Goldey-Beacom XC team has best performance of the year with its first 2014 team trophy after missing one at the home Fall XC Classic in Newport, DE by only a few points in early October. Now the Lady Lightning found their stride in the last regular season race of the year in Fredrick MD. Freshman McCullom becomes the fastest 6k runner in the college's history of the sport. Crystal broke Liz Williams, record of 25:45.49 by less then one second. The new record now stands at 24:44.6. The team also had three other personal best for the season at the meet. Jordan Dodson improved 45 seconds and placed 3rd overall. Ariel Richardson improved 1:45 to place 16th overall and Samia Blassengale had the most improved time by two minutes. Other runners finishing for the Lightning were Ashley Zaccaria and Lashae Lee.

Men swept the top three college places at Saturday's invitational. Logan Jones from Fredrick, with three generation of relatives in attendance, was first place with a time of 26:56. Second place was captain, Aaron Easter, on Logan's heels with a time of 26:57. Finishing the sweep was a freshman from Bo Manor H.S in MD, Chandler Brooks, with a personal best of 27:07. The Goldey- Beacom's team had its best race of the year with a final score of 34 points with St. Mary's coming in second with 16. Sophomore, Rudy Braxton, finished in ninth place with a season best time of 27:07. Freshman Victor Rueda was in 19 place with his second best time of the year 28:50. Other GBC male runners hitting their personal bests were Justin Morris, Ludric Francis and Zarif Goldsborough.

Oct 11th 2014
Jack St. Clair Memorial XC meet in Philadelphia, PA.

Goldey-Beacom men's cross country team finds success with 4th place out of 15 teams. The Lightning's pack ran well through the mud and cool rain on Saturday. Rudy Braxton, Josh Shultz and Victor Rueda all ran exceptionally well. Aaron Easter was 6th overall and crossed the finish line first for the Lightning in a time of 27:58. Logan Jones traded places with Easter throughout the race placing 8th in a time of 28:12.
The GBC Women's team decided that a team can't survive on talent alone. Goldey-Beacom Women's XC showed off their up beat attitudes with pink highlights for breast cancer awareness. The team's stars for the week were the runners that ran through the most pain and still finished the race with excellent times. The runners of the week are Lashae lee, Samia blassengale and Ariel Richardson.

Oct 4th 2014 Banning park Newport, DE.

GBC Women's XC team became the all time fastest team in the college's history.

At the GBC Cross Country fall classic this years women's team surpassed the 2007 team. Freshmen duo consisting of Jordan Dodson (21:35) and Crystal McCollum (21:46) lead the team by placing fifth and sixth overall respectively. Other girls running top times were Ariel Richardson 20th place (22:58) and Ashley Zacarria 21st place (22:59). Rounding out the scoring top five was Lashae Lee coming through the finish at 26:33. Followed by Samia Blassengale with a time of 26:55.

GBC Men's XC team wins second consecutive Fall Classic invitational

Men finish four runners in the top 15 to score a team total of 39 points. Logan Jones was the top GBC finisher in third place with a time of 28:13. Aaron Easter and Chandler Brooks finish close behind in fourth and fifth place. Rudy Braxton places eleventh. To complete the victory a pack of three freshman finish together within 45 seconds; Victor Rueda, Justin Morris and Josh Shultz. Final varsity Goldey runner Lou Francis improves time to 32:02

Richard Stockton, NJ. September 20th 2014. GBC Men place 4th and women place 5th.

Goldey- Beacom puts eight new runners on the top ten fastest list of all time at the college women find new homes for Jordan Dodson at 2nd fastest in school history with 6 k time of 25:13, Crystal McCullom at 4th fastest in a super fasts performance of 25:54. And senior captain Ashley Zaccaria improves on last years mark and moves up to 9th fastest.

On the men's team five more enter the ranks of top ten fastest of all time Rudy Braxton at 8 over all with a time of 28:05 his positive attitude at mile 4 almost put the team in 3rd place, after motivating himself he ran down five in the last mile. Also helping Goldey beat 6 other colleges was victor Rueda 9th all Time, Chandler Brooks 6th all time (27:49),Aaron Easter 4th all time (12:10), and top Goldey- Beacom male runner and 3rd fastest all time was Logan Jones (26:52).

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Goldey-Beacom distance runners place first and second in West Chester's second invitational of the outdoor season. Senior Stewart Reich from Fredrick, Md. He Finished the 5k in first place with a time of 15:48. And Sophomore Aaron Easter from Rising Sun, Md. placed second after lapping the rest of the runners with a time of 16:45. Stewart broke the college's record in the event in which he already held in a time of 16:09. He graduates with honors from Goldey- Beacon with an accounting degree. He has the school record in the 800m 1500m and 5000m on the track. He has been a part of the college's record setting 4x400 and 4x800 teams. He also holds the record in the 5 mile in cross country on the fastest Xc team in Goldey-Beacom History.

GOLDEY MEN LOSE THREE TO GRADUATION

On the verge of a rebuilding year, after a successful 2013 cross country season with three first place team finishes, one second place and improving in every area of the sport, the Lightning lost three seniors. However, during the last week of NLI signing Goldey-Beacom had three up and coming high school seniors to fill in the gaps. From Sussex County in Delaware Victor Rueda ran a 16:49.3 at the Tidewater Classic which he won the year before. Josh Shultz from Easton PA ran 18:34 during the PIAA Class AAA State Championships this year and Maryland resident, Chandler Brooks, from Bo Manor high school who also broke 17 minutes at UCBAC Championships and a 3rd place finish. With this group of young men GBC is looking forward to another great performance in the conference and NCAA regional meet.

Goldey women breathe new life with 2014 freshmen class

Goldey-Beacom College's cross country program gets record activity on national letter of intent for February signing period in 2014! Women signing with the Lightning are: Ashlynn Ludwig from Sussex central High School in DE, who ran her best time of her high school career during junior year with a time of 24:03 at the Six Flags Safari Invitational, Crystal McCullom from North East High School in Maryland had her best finish of her senior year by placing 25th with an impressive time of 22:53.60 at the MPSSAA 2A East Regional Meet, and to round out the 2014 fall freshman class for the women's cross country team at Goldey-Beacom College is four time individual state champion, Jordan Dodson, from Perryville High School in Maryland (one in cross country, one in indoor track and two in out door track). These addition to a growing team will put the women' s cross country team in contention for a few team titles next year during the 2014 Xc season

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2014 gbc XC meets

Sept 7th Baruch Invitational Bronx NYC

Sept 13th University of Delaware

Sept 20th Richard Stockton College Atlant City

September 28th and 29th No Meet

Oct 11th Belmont Fairmont Park Philadekphia

Oct 18th Hood College Fredrick MD

November 2nd CACC Belmont

November 23rd NCAA Regional N H

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Penn Relays-4/28/12

David Zartler, Stewart Reich, Angel Melendez and Jabari Chambers performed at a high level on the biggest track and field stage on the east coast. The above men ran two seconds off their personal best on a cold day. They had a long wait in the bull pen but competed the same way they did all season. They hung in there as a team, trading positions back and forth in every leg. Dave was on a huge stagger on the 10 lane track when he started off the relay. Stew and Angelo have been exciting all season to watch run and both brought the fight to the other runners on the second and third legs of the race. Jabari had the most challenging job, anchoring at the Penn Relays in front of a stadium full of spectators. He finished the last turn of the race with class and speed. Jabari lead the team down the final stretch into Goldey-Beacom history as the first relay to compete at the Penn Relays. Goldey's time of 3:33 outpaced other CACC teams such as Holy Family (3:38) and Philadelphia University (3:40) in the college 4x400.

Thank you to all the men in the race. You made your coach very proud.

A New Star-10/23/11

Goldey-Beacom finishes a successful conference meet with strong packs on both the men’s and the women’s teams. The packs were lead by two rising stars.

Sophomore Carly Michell stole the show at the CACC conference cross country meet this weekend for the Lightning. She eclipsed the course PR’s of teammates Liz Williams (40 second), Symone Stewarts (43 second) and Alyssa Murray (37 seconds). With the addition of Carly’s 4 minute and 2 second course PR they all improved 6:02. Liz lead the team into the finish with a time of 22:41 and was followed by the pack of Carly at 24:53, Symone (24:57) and Alyssa (25:31). Carly moved onto the 5k All Time List at Goldey-Beacom and is now the 15^th fastest women to run for GBC. Tigan Frizby was the fifth women on the team with a time of 28:31. The women finished the meet in 11^th place only 13 points behind Holy Family but well ahead of Caldwell and Concordia.

The men’s team was lead by freshman Angelo Melendez in 20^th place with a time of 29:41. Four of his teammates finish within 1mintue and 40 seconds of him. This left Goldey with a super tight pack and in the fight for a good score at the conference meet. Stewart Riech a sophomore finished steps behind Angelo with a time of 29:49. Another group came in a minute later. Ben Kinley (30:55), Hugo Morales (31:03) and Dan Weyant (31:21) completed the pack and started a battle in team scoring. The final two spots on the men’s team were Paul Graybeal at 32:36 and David Zartler finishing at 33:14. After the race, Coach Conley felt strong about a 5^th place finish over all and maybe a 4^th for the Lightning men. The team’s place came down to just a few points. Goldey-Beacom slipped back to 7^th only 4 points away from 6^th place Nyack and 19 points would have put them all the way up to 4^th place ahead of Bloomfield. The men have the daunting task of going all the way to the last meet of the season to prove themselves worthy with their peers in the conference. Whether you lost by 4 points or 19 points its still a loss. So they travel to one more race in Boston to prove they are the superior team.

Lady lightning pull together for great performance

The college’s homecoming weekend started off with the seasons best performance from the women's cross country team. They defeated five teams finishing 5th place at the meet. The team worked together with fast splits from each runner. The team held off Caldwell and Essex by about 20 points and fell short of catching Bloomfield by 25 points. In two weeks at the CACC meet Goldey -Beacom should be taking aim on beating the Deacons. The women are improving every week. This week Coach Conley told 5th runner on the team Tigan Frisby that the team’s success depends on her strong finish. Tigan pulled through for her teammates and brought new runner Shanay Snead along for the fast finish. They both finished with their best races of the year. Carly Mitchell and Alyssa Murray both took huge amounts of time off of their finishing times from last year. Together they took off 4 minutes which improved the teams score the most for the team. Symone Stewart is having a late season run at her best times. Her practices have been strong this week and the quickness of her feet at the home meet, hopefully makes this her turning point for the season. Liz Williams finished first for the lightning and had a new school home course record but that not why she was smiling at the end of the race. Liz finished the race and then cheered in a fast Goldey-Beacom team competing for her and each other.

All Time Team : Morales, Kinley, Graybeal, Zartler and Reich

The 10^th year of men’s cross country at Goldey-Beacom College lived up to its exciting start. At this weekends NCAA DII meet the top five men make the All Time Team: Stewart 5th, Ben 9th, Hugo 10th, Paul 13th and David 16th fastest in Goldey-Beacom history. This was an amazing finish to the season for the men. The challenge of the NCAA regional meet is going head to head with the best runners in the North Atlantic states. The men's team looked forward to the challenge. In their minds no team runs harder then them. They have run every mile and every interval at a pace fast enough to be considered the best. The team’s Attitude all year affected the outcome of this meet and the stellar season which finished with two team invitational titles and the overall second fastest team in school history. The only team that was faster then them was the 2003 conference champions. Coach Conley thinks the team is on the precipice of something very big. Each individual feels as though they control the future of next year’s team.

Goldey-Beacom College Cross Country and Spring team