2017

As the Rams continue to succumb to the inexorable decline of age--Father Time apparently remains undefeated, particularly when we haven't produced a graduate who has scored for the team in the past fifteen years--the new wave of dominant teams continued their rise this year.  After our string of six straight titles ended in 2007, the Alumni Run entered a period of relative parity on the mens' side.  From 2009 through 2015, no team scored less than 70 points in a single race; the five highest winning scores in history all date from this period.  The past two years, however, have seen a return to dominance by two traditional powerhouses.  The Suffern Mounties ran to one of the lowest scores in race history in upending Monroe-Woodbury in 2016; this year the Crusaders returned the favor, snagging five of the top 14 spots for an impressive 40-point winning total.  With the win, Monroe-Woodbury tied Suffern for third on the list of all-time titles.  Jack Jibb became the Crusaders' fifth individual race winner, second-most in race history.  The Monroe-Woodbury women ran unchallenged to their record eighth consecutive title.  Suzanne LaBurt recorded an amazing 18th consecutive top ten finish with her first individual title.

A couple of side notes: first off, after years of complaining about/pointing out that the course is about 30 seconds longer than it used to be, due to the (at this point not-so) new downhill, I finally brought my wheel and measured it.  The current downhill is exactly 110 yards--just about 100 meters--longer than the traditional descent that was used until 2004.  At six-minute-mile pace, that's almost 25 seconds...pretty close to what I've been estimating.  And in vastly more important news, my old coach, Bob Dillon, received this year's Bill Markiewicz award.  I was honored to be on the starting line as Coach accepted this long-overdue honor.

Jamie's recap

Full Results

Overall Top 30

1. Jack Jibb (MW '15) 16:03
2. John Dove (MW '14) 16:24
3. Patrick Hennelly (Suff '16) 16:26
4. David McCarey (Middletown '08) 16:31
5. Nick Roosa (TZ '03) 16:39
6. Evan Ward (Suff '12) 16:40
7. Aidan Galasso (Suff '09) 17:04
8. Corey Calajoe (PR '04) 17:05
9. Ben Nilsestuen (Warwick '01) 17:14
10. Jason Friedman (CN '93) 17:26
11. Peter Viscardo (MW '95) 17:28
12. Adam Alshoubeki (MW '16) 17:48
13. Clive Griffiths II (Mt. St. Michael '14) 18:01
14. Kyle Egan (MW '16) 18:25
15. Michael Guglielmo (CS '13) 18:34
16. JT McEntyre (MW '13) 18:35
17. Jesse Chain (Goshen '15) 18:43
18. John O'Rourke (O'Neill '06)
19. Brian Herbst (PR '07) 18:54
20. Kyle Collins (Suff '12) 18:55
21. Adam McCaffery (Nyack '97) 18:56
22. Brendan Fennell (PR '03) 19:05
23. Tom McCarney (CN '93) 19:12
24. Shai Ben-Dor (Goshen '12) 19:14
25. Kevin Long (Goshen '17) 19:15
26. Matt McKenna (CN '03) 19:19
27. Paul Bisconti (MW '15) 19:20
28. Luke Driscoll (Baldwin '93) 19:23
29. Mike Lawrence (Warwick '01) 19:30
30. Wan Park (Seekonk '93) 19:33

Womens' Top 10

1. Suzanne LaBurt (MW '81) 20:17
2. Abagaile Kimbrell (MW '17) 21:00
3. Julianne Littmann-Viscardo (MW '95) 21:37
4. Angelique Atlas (Goshen '16) 23:19
5. Alison Newman (Kingswood-Oxford '93) 24:49
6. Laura Hudson (Northern Valley '77) 24:50
7. Ann O'Rourke (O'Neill '11) 24:54
8. Samantha Cofsky (Walpole '07) 25:23
9. Leslie Ballantyne (Suff '92) 26:34
10. Olivia Haverson (Greenwich) 15:48
11. Gail (Littmann) Swiryn (MW '94) 26:39

Total Number of Runners: 59

Team Participation: 1. Monroe-Woodbury 36, 2. Clarkstown South 19,  3. Suffern 15, 4. Pearl River 14, 5. Clarkstown North 13, 6. Goshen 9, 7. Albertus Magnus 7, 8. Nanuet 4, 9. (tie) North Rockland , Warwick, Washingtonville, and Tappan Zee 3, 13. (tie) Nyack and James O'Neill 2.

Mens' Team Scoring

1. Monroe Woodbury 40 (Jibb, Dove, Viscardo, Alshoubeki, Egan)
2. Suffern 75
3. Pearl River 114
4. Clarkstown North 151
5. Goshen 179
6. Clarkstown South 198
7. Albertus Magnus 485

Women's Team Scoring

1. Monroe-Woodbury 30 (LaBurt, Kimbrell, Littman-Viscardo, Swiryn, Laird)