Kenefick Looking to Lead 'Cats in Return to Coast to Coast

Friday, September 22

Boston, Mass.

3 PM

University of New Hampshire

Boston Coast-to-Coast

Kenefick (right) competes in the opening meet with Providence (Photo by Maya Campbell)

Photo by: Maya Campbell

9/21/2017 11:16:00 AM | Men's Cross Country

DURHAM, N.H. – Senior Timothy Kenefick (Guilford, Conn.) looks to lead the Wildcats in the Boston Coast-to-Coast invitational this Friday.

Kenefick was UNH's top finisher in the event last season, finishing 35^th out of 105 runners in the 8k in 25 minutes and 35 seconds.

Sophomore Nicholas Brown (Conway, N.H.) will try and help New Hampshire climb the rankings in the invitational this year, looking to improve on his 65^th place finish in last season's meet. His finishing time was 26:17. Also looking to improve on last season's finish is junior Cody Symonds (Alton, N.H.) finished 74^th overall with a time of 26:34.

Sophomore Nicolas Ochoa-Sevilla (Chester, N.H.) makes his Coast-to-Coast debut after finishing top 15 in UNH's last two events (13^th in the season opener, fourth in the Maine meet).

RACE INFO

Date and time: Friday, Sept. 22, 3:30 p.m.
Location: Franklin Park, Boston
Distance: Men's race 8K

NEXT UP

UNH returns to Franklin Park for the New England Championships on October 7 at 11 a.m.

THE COMPETITION

A total of 18 schools will participate in the event, including Providence, Boston College, Boston University, Dartmouth, and America East teams Albany, Maine, UMass Lowell, and Vermont.

LAST TIME OUT

The Wildcats most recently competed at Maine, where UNH finished second to Maine in the dual meet.

Ochoa-Sevilla finished fourth overall.
Brown led a group of Wildcats from sixth place to eleventh place.
Symonds finished in seventh with a time of 26:48.
Junior Davis Clark (Manchester, N.H.) came in eighth with 27:03.
Freshman James Wilkes came in ninth with time of 27:07.
Alexander Saveliev (Concord, N.H.) finished 10th with 27:08.
Junior Dean Yost (Canton, Conn.) rounded out the Wildcat group, finishing 11th with a time of 27:18.