Men's Cross Country

2023 PSAC Men's Cross Country All-Conference: Quinan, Diehl, Spence claim Major Awards

LOCK HAVEN, Pa. – The Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference announced the major award winners for the 2023 men’s cross country season on Thursday afternoon. Shippensburg’s Garrett Quinan was selected as Athlete of the Year while Kutztown’s Andrew Diehl earned Freshman of the Year honors. Shippensburg’s Steve Spence was named Coach of the Year after guiding the Raiders to a top team finish at the 2023 PSAC Championship Meet.
 
All awards were determined by a vote of the league’s head coaches.
 
Quinan, a sophomore, put together a stellar resume in 2023, adding a regular season win in the Dickinson Long Short 4K and a fifth-place mark in the Paul Short Brown race. He kicked it into gear in the postseason, winning the 2023 PSAC Championship race and following it up with a fifth-place mark in the NCAA Atlantic Regional to qualify for the national meet. At the NCAA Championship he crossed the finish line in 66th place.
 
Kutztown’s Diehl opened the season with a win at the Adelphi Panther Invitational and was the top freshman finisher at the 2023 PSAC meet. He was the third-highest finishing freshman from the PSAC at the NCAA Atlantic Regional and was KU’s top finisher in four of six meets in 2023.
 
Spence led the Shippensburg men’s cross country team to its first PSAC team title since 2017, snapping a string of second-place finishes from 2020 to 2022. All five scoring runners at the PSAC meet finished in the top 15, with four of them in the top five. The Raiders also excelled at the 2023 NCAA Atlantic Regional, securing automatic qualification to the NCAA national meet with a third-place team finish. At the NCAA Championships, Shippensburg concluded the season with a respectable 31st place.
 
The remainder of the All-Conference honorees were earned by placement at the 2023 PSAC Championships earlier this season and are listed below:

First-Team All-PSAC
 
1.         Garrett Quinan, Shippensburg
2.         Aiden Gonder, Shippensburg
3.         Ethan Brentham, Slippery Rock
4.         Ryan Wolfe, Shippensburg
5.         Hayden Hunt, Shippensburg
6.         Joey Cintavey, Slippery Rock
7.         Troy Hart, Slippery Rock
8.         Eric Alu, Edinboro
9.         Joel Beckwith, IUP
10.        Noah Bernarding, California
11.        Alec Bidwell, Mercyhurst
12.        Jonathan Thrush, California
13.        Ryan Duff, Bloomsburg
14.        Nathan Harding, Shippensburg
15.        Mike Formica, IUP
 
Second Team All-PSAC 
 
16.        Andrew Diehl, Kutztown
17.        Jack Hollar, Kutztown
18.        Kevin Wagner, Shippensburg
19.        Ethan Ribelin, IUP
20.       Devon Navaroli, Slippery Rock
21.        Landon Boyle, East Stroudsburg
22.       Jason Vogt, West Chester
23.       Josh Miller, West Chester
24.       Mason Jobe, California
25.       Jakob Rager, Lock Haven
26.       Dan Gibney, IUP
27.       Morgan Gavitt, Lock Haven
28.       Kaden Crump, Seton Hill
29.       Michael Novak, Slippery Rock
30.       Caleb Mandel, Gannon