Men's Cross Country

2024 PSAC Men's Cross Country All-Conference: Quinan, Crum, Spence claim Major Awards

LOCK HAVEN, Pa. – The Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference announced its Major Award winners for the 2024 men’s cross country season on Thursday afternoon. Shippensburg University swept the awards, with Garrett Quinan selected as Athlete of the Year for the second consecutive season, Tommy Crum earning Freshman of the Year honors, and coach Steve Spence also going back-to-back as Coach of the Year after guiding the Raiders to a second straight first-place finish at this year’s 2024 PSAC Championship Meet.
 
All awards were determined by a vote of the conference’s head coaches.
 
Quinan, a junior, put together another impressive year in 2024, adding a third-place finish in the Paul Short Brown race to his second straight PSAC meet victory. He rode that momentum into the postseason, earning second place in the NCAA Atlantic Regional to qualify for the national meet. At the NCAA Championship he crossed the finish line in 51st place.
 
Freshman of the Year Crum opened the season with second-place finish at the Dickinson 4k and was sixth in the Paul Short Brown race. He crossed the finish line in fourth at the PSAC meet and was eighth at the NCAA Atlantic Regional. Crum wrapped up a successful debut campaign with a 133rd place mark at the NCAA Championship and was the top PSAC freshman finisher in all seven races in which he competed in 2024.
 
Coach of the Year Spence led the Shippensburg men’s cross country team to its second consecutive PSAC team title, with five runners placing in the top 10 of that meet. The team placed second at the NCAA Atlantic Regional, with four runners in the top 15, to earn automatic qualification for the national meet – where the team finished in 20th place, an improvement from last year’s 31st-place mark.
 
The remainder of the All-Conference honorees were earned by placement at the 2024 PSAC Championships in October and are listed in full below:

First-Team All-PSAC
 
1.         Garrett Quinan, Shippensburg
2.         Dan Gibney, IUP
3.         Noah Bernarding, California
4.         Tommy Crum, Shippensburg
5.         Troy Hart, Slippery Rock
6.         Aiden Gonder, Shippensburg
7.         Mike Formica, IUP
8.         Ian Sherlock, Shippensburg
9.         Ryan Wolfe, Shippensburg
10.       Jakob Rager, Lock Haven
11.       Jonathan Thrush, California
12.       Landon Boyle, East Stroudsburg
13.       Adam Brocato, Kutztown
14.       Bryce Keenoy, East Stroudsburg
15.       Devon Navaroli, Slippery Rock
 
Second Team All-PSAC 
 
16.       Ely Personius, Gannon
17.       Brian McGarrity, East Stroudsburg
18.       Ethan Holcomb, East Stroudsburg
19.       Ramon Urena, Shippensburg
20.       Joel Beckwith, IUP
21.       Brennan Wellock, Shippensburg
22.       Andrew Tatesure, East Stroudsburg
23.       John Juszynski, Slippery Rock
24.       Benjamin Devine, Shippensburg
25.       Peyton Riley, Bloomsburg
26.       Cody Achilles, Seton Hill
27.       Kristian Mizdail, Lock Haven
28.       Luke Malena, Gannon
29.       Matthew Remishofski, West Chester
30.       Nathan Kociela, IUP