AMHERST, N.Y. -- The Daemen University men's and women's cross country team will run in six races over the fall 2025 season, head coach
Pete Gratien announced today.
The Wildcats will open up the 2025 schedule on Saturday, September 6 in Edinboro, Pennsylvania at the Doug Watts Open hosted by Edinboro University. Daemen will be off for two weeks before participating in the highly competitive Harry F. Anderson Invitational in Rochester, N.Y. hosted by Roberts Wesleyan University on Saturday, Sept. 27.
Daemen will run in three races in the month of October, first traveling down to run in the Highlander Invitational hosted by Houghton University on Oct. 11 and will wrap up the regular season on Saturday, Oct. 18 close to home at the Canisius Alumni Classic at Buffalo's Delaware Park.
The 2025 East Coast Conference Championships will be hosted by Queens College on Saturday, Oct. 25 at Sunken Meadow State Park. Daemen will run in the 2025 NCAA Division II East Region Championships on Saturday, Nov. 8 at the Hopkinton Fairgrounds in Hopkinton, New Hampshire.
The Wildcat men return six runners from the 2024 team that placed second at the ECC Championships for the third straight season, including junior
Ethan Keating (Wooster, Ohio) who paced the Wildcats twice last season and finished as one of Daemen's top five scorers in all seven meets. Senior
Aidan Kincaid (Orchard Park, N.Y.) is coming off his third straight All-Conference season and finished the 2024 season strong as the first Wildcats to cross the finish line in each of the last three meets of the year. After being named the 2023 ECC Rookie of the Year, junior
CJ Johnson (Baltimore, Md.) returns to the lineup in 2025 after missing the majority of 2024 with an injury. Gratien added five new runners to the 2025 roster to bring the team to 11 runners.
Daemen women's cross country is coming off their second trip to the NCAA Division II National Championships in three years after finishing third as a team at the 2024 NCAA Division II East Region Championship a season ago. Seven runners return for the Wildcats this season, including four of Daemen's top-seven runners from 2024. Second Team All-ECC runners
Patsy Oberholzer (Greece, N.Y.) and
Christa Oates (Tonawanda, N.Y.) are back this season after both finished between third and fourth on the team for the majority of last season. Sophomore
Lia Brasacchio (Victor, N.Y.) put together a strong freshman campaign and looks to factor into the top five scorers in 2025. Gratien added two freshman to the 2025 roster to round out the team at nine runners.
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