Fall Season Wrap–Up Women’s XC Improving drastically from last year, the Women’s Cross Country team ran well in the Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) Championship, qualifying for a bid in the NCAA tournament. At the CCC Championship, Allison Lynch (Sr./Holliston, MA) placed an impressive fourth out of 103 runners on the 6k course, coming in at 24:32 to earn herself All-Conference honors. Teammates Kelcy Rich (Sr./Hudson, MA), Emily Urquhart (Fr./White River Junction, VT) and Katie Hakanson-Stacy (Jr./East Longmeadow, MA) earned the 14th, 15th, and 17th place, respectively, crossing the finish within six seconds of each other. As a team the Scots dropped 44 seconds off last year's overall average time to place fourth out of the eight competing teams. At the NCAA Tournament, the women were led by Urquhart (Fr./White River Junction, VT), who finished third among CCC runners with a 23:46 finish. In school history, her performance was the seventh highest finish ever at the NCAA Regional meet and places her as the fourth-fastest 6k female runner. Overall, the women's team jumped up from last year to finish third of the CCC competitors with a score of 758, improving 254 points over the 2010–2011 season. Lynch was honored as a CCC Runner of the Week and earned First Team All-CCC honors at the end of the season. Hakanson-Stacy truly portrayed what it means to be a student athlete and was honored as the Gordon Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year.
Men’s XC Men’s Cross Country had a fantastic year and finished exceptionally strong in the Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) Championship and the New England Regionals. Taking on the best from around the conference in the CCC Championship, the Scots battled through tough conditions to place fourth. Josh Porizky (Jr./Groton, CT) earned All-Conference honors with a seventh place finish overall, finishing in 28:16 on the 8k course. Not far behind was Levi Miller (Sr./Coopersburg, PA), who finished in twelfth place with a 28:30 result. In the New England Regionals, the Scots saved some of their best performances for last as several runners posted their best times of the 2011 season. The men were led by Porizky, who posted the best race of his season with a 27:39 finish. Perhaps the race of the day on the men's side, however, went to Andrew Kwiatkowski (So./Yorktown Heights, NY), who dropped over a minute from his previous best to run his fastest race ever as a Scot, at 28:31. The men improved their team score from last year by 20 points. Coach Andrew Shaw said, "Almost everyone who ran today had their best race of the season and there is nothing more that I could have asked for from this great group of men…. We should return a lot more runners next year and today's race will help build the foundation for the years to come." Porizky was named First Team All-CCC for his outstanding performance throughout the year, while Miller was the Gordon Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year.