September 7, 2002
William Paterson Invitational full results
2nd of 13 teams

The NYU Harriers opened their season with a second place finish at the William Patterson Invitational. Held on a challenging course at Garret Mountain Reservation in New Jersey, the Violets like to use the meet to acquaint newcomers to the 5-mile distance and to assess the teams training to date. Despite holding out the top four returnees and missing 3 more of last year's top 7 due to injury, NYU finished second in the thirteen team race, by claiming 5 of the top 15 spots. Leading the Violets in his first race for NYU was freshman Matt McMickle, of New Providence High School. Following Matt was sophmore Les Page, freshman Mike Beebe, freshman BJ Kraska, and freshman Jeff Raybould.

September 14, 2002
trinity college invitational full results
2nd of 7 teams

on september 13, the nyu harriers travelled to hartford connecticut for the trinity college invitational, a 5k race held on a tough course at wickham park. with two all-americans on its roster, meet host trinity provided honest competition for nyu's young squad, which competed as a full unit for the first time this season. led by vinnie zarrillo, the violets finished second to trinity in the seven team race despite finishing 5 before any other team. trinity claimed the first and third spots to gain victory. zarrillo finished 4th (16:12); followed by joe clabby, 7th (16:32); travis keany, 10th (16:43); tucker rader, 11th (16:44); and matt mcmickle, 12th (16:45). this coming weekend, nyu hosts its annual invitational at van cortlandt park.

photos

• plotting a course
• joe clabby sans thumb ring
• regretting that haircut - matt mcmickle
• mid-race, bj kraska
• jeff raybould
• dangerously close to falling over - travis keany
• tucker rader
• kraska finishes
• freshman brian delaney
• dan moschella with the lean
• les page shows his 800m speed
• jon mummolo likes 5k better
• coincidentally the cameraman got a good shot of camera owner ryan komaiko

September 21, 2002
nyu xc invitational full results
3rd of 26 teams

despite finishing 3rd, the NYU Harriers did not bring their "a" game to their first meet of the season at van cortlandt park. joe clabby ran a strong race to lead the violets. he was followed by travis keany, matt mcmickle, vinnie zarrillo and les page. page ran a strong race in his first effort at vcp as did jon mummolo. the violets have a week off to lick their wounds and the virus that hit the team this week. their next meet is the metropolitan championships, october 4, again at van cortland park.

October 4, 2002
new york metropolitan xc invitational full results
6th of 16 teams

on friday, october 4th, the nyu harriers avenged a mediocre performance at their home invitational with an outstanding team performance at the new york metropolitan cross country invitational. on a day where nyu's first and fifth runners were separated by only 16 seconds, nearly every individual achieved a personal best, and the team grabbed sixth place out of 16 teams.

for the second meet in a row, nyu was paced by sophmore joe clabby, whose time of 26:53 was an all-time pr for 8k and an improvement of 23 seconds over his time on the same course two weeks prior. following clabby was travis keany (26:56, vcp pr of :41), vinnie zarrillo (26:58), tucker rader (27:01, vcp pr of :22) and matt mcmickle (27:09, vcp pr of :59). other pr's at van cortland were recorded by les page (28:01, :38), bj kraska (28:10, 1:37), jon mummolo (28:56, 1:49), brian delaney (30:09, :29) and ryan komaiko (30:30, 1:05).

the violets next meet is october 19 at the albany university invitational.

October 19, 2002
albany university
xc invitational full results
6th of 22 teams

greeted by the first true cross country weather of the season, the nyu harriers finished sixth of 22 teams at this past weekend's albany university cross country invitational. the front pack, led by vinnie zarrillo (26:25 - 11th), finished with 38 seconds of each other. following zarrillo were travis keany (26:30), joe clabby (26:54), matt mcmickle (26:55) and tucker rader (27:03). running personal and/or season bests were zarrillo, keany, mcmickle, les page (27:36), bj kraska (27:53), jon mummolo (28:16), ryan komaiko (28:45) and brian delaney (29:09).

November 2, 2002
2002 University Athletic Association Cross Country Invitationalfull results
5 of 8 teams

November 16, 2002
2002 NCAA Atlantic Regional Men Xc Championshipfull results
7 of 33 teams

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