On Saturday, Nov. 1, the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (CMS) and Pomona-Pitzer (P-P) cross-country teams both secured victories at the SCIAC Championships, hosted in their own backyard of Claremont, California. The P-P men’s and CMS women’s teams took first in their division, while the P-P women’s and CMS men’s teams trailed closely in second; displaying Claremont’s dominance in the conference.
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Athenas cross country ‘Packs-Up’ the season with 13th straight SCIAC title, advances to NCAA Regional Championships
Lucky number 13? Like something out of a Greek epic, the Athenas “Apollo-gized” to no one and sprinted across the finish line last weekend, “Zeus-staining” their winning streak. On Saturday, Oct. 28, the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (CMS) women’s cross-country team earned their thirteenth straight SCIAC championship title, and finished with six runners in the top 10.
Claremont: Consortium of Champions
Claremont-Mudd-Scripps and Pomona-Pitzer won a combined six SCIAC Championships across five sports this fall, the most ever in a single season. Pomona-Pitzer Football Without a doubt, the most compelling narrative of the SCIAC’s fall season was the historic Cinderella story of Pomona-Pitzer football. Ranked fifth in the beginning of the
Walk on wonder hits the ground running to two-time XC All-American
All-American runner Natalie Bitetti CM ’24 describes cross country as “a very simple sport.” Well, that might be easy for her to say. After finishing in the top 20 of every race in her debut season, and winning SCIAC athlete of the week after each race she ran in her junior season, all Bitetti knows is winning. The decorated athlete was originally recruited for CMS’s softball team, but after running just one season in high school she made the bold choice to walk onto the cross country team and has been a star ever since.
After becoming regional champion, West Region Athlete of the Year Stevie Steinberg HM’ 22 reminisces on stellar cross-country career
After crossing the finish line first at the NCAA West Regionals Championship Meet, Athlete of the Year Stevie Steinberg reflects on his outstanding running career.
Pomona-Pitzer men’s cross country wins second straight national title
The Pomona-Pitzer men’s cross country team won its second straight national championship Saturday, defending a title it earned for the first time in 2019. In a neck-and-neck finish, the Athenas were national runners-up.
Both P-P and CMS cross-country programs bring home SCIAC chips
Being two programs that have won multiple recent SCIAC championships, the P-P men’s and CMS women’s cross country teams again brought team titles home this year.
Following a run with Division I program, Meredith Bloss HM ’23 has strived for the Athenas in her first season
After running on Cornell University’s Division I cross-country team for her first two years in college, Meredith Bloss HM ’23 is now a star for CMS.
CMS men’s and women’s cross-country sweep team titles at P-P Invitational
Blowing away each of the runner-up programs by double-digits, both men’s and women’s CMS cross country teams swept the team titles at the P-P Invitational.
‘Run for the team and run for each other’: How the CMS women’s XC team became unstoppable in the 2010s
Having swept all the SCIAC championships during the 2010s, the CMS women’s cross country team has dominated their competition every year.