Cross country competes at Seven Sisters Championship
October 21, 2015
By Simmons College Athletics

Senior Kara MacLean finished 28th and senior Cortney Hanrahan improved on last year’s race time by over three and a half minutes to help the Simmons College women’s cross country team to a seventh-place finish on the six-kilometer course at the Seven Sister’s Championship at Haverford College in Haverford, Penn., on Sunday. The race was hosted by Bryn Mawr College.
Wellesley College won the team championship with a score of 16 points and was led by individual champion, senior Priyanka Fouda, who turned in a time of 22:58.1.
The Sharks posted a score of 173 and saw six runners record better times in this year’s 6K race than last year.
MacLean clocked in at 24:23 to shave 1:45 off her time in last year’s six-kilometer race. Hanrahan finished 94th, but her time of 30:31.8 was 3:38 better than her mark from last year.
First-year Samantha Jaffe was the second-best finisher for Simmons with a time of 24:40.8 to place 33rd, while sophomore Allegra Egizi came in at 25:16.3 to finish 47th. Junior Sara Harland placed 55th and improved on last year’s time by 71 seconds with a mark of 25:57.
Junior Bethanie Royality-Lindman rounded out the scoring for the Sharks with a time of 26:48.5 to better her effort from last year by 39 seconds and place 63rd.
Junior Hannah Hast crossed the finish in 95th place with a time of 30:34.7 to best last year’s time by 86 seconds, while senior Amanda Cardonne was five seconds better than last year with a time of 34:45.3 to place 100th.
Simmons competes again on Saturday, Oct. 31 at 1 p.m. when it heads to Standish, Maine to compete at the Great Northeast Athletic Conference Championship at Saint Joseph’s College.