Season Outlook
This fall the Haverford College men’s cross country team will seek its 25th conference championship and 17th Mideast Regional title. The Fords are coming off a 2007 season where they were the national runner-up at the NCAA Division III Championship, the highest NCAA finish of any Haverford varsity sport.
The Cast
Haverford has to replace All-Americans Don Letts and Ian Ramsey-North, but that should not be a problem for a team that returns three runners who placed in the top half of the NCAA Championship race. Junior Andrew Lanham, senior Mark Burgmann and sophomore Anders Hullberg will likely lead this year’s squad.
Lahnam placed fourth at the Centennial Championship, sixth at the regional and 55th at the NCAA Championship. Burgmann finished the 2007 season with a 59th place finish at nationals, while Hulleberg placed third at the conference championship, 29th at the Mideast Regional and 111th at nationals.
Elias Tousley, Paul Bisceglio and Phil Eiseman placed in the top-26 at the Centennial Championship and will be challenged for spots in the top varsity seven from Taylor Burmeister, Joseph Carpenter, Patrick Donnelly, Lucas Fuentes, Jason Oaks, Dan O’Toole and Chris Southwick.
The Schedule
The Fords will host their annual Alumni race in early-September before embarking on a 2008 season in which they seek to extend their conference championship winning streak. Coming off their second place finish at the 2007 NCAA Division III championship meet, the men will open their 2008 schedule by hosting D-I Villanova, then travel to the Paul Short Invitational at Lehigh University where they will go up against perennially top D-I teams in the region such as Bucknell University and Lehigh.