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      <title>STAC Cross Country and Track &amp; Field Programs Take Part in 2025 Penguin Plunge Parade</title>
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      <description>Spartans  student-athletes and coaches show support for seriously ill children in Rockland County community</description>
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      <title>Cross Country Wraps Up 2025 Season At NCAA Division II East Regional</title>
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      <description>Ronaldo Rodriguez Perez (77th place) and Gianna Mauri (86th place) are the top finishers for the Spartans in Hopkinton, N.H.</description>
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      <title>Men's Cross Country Places Fourth, Women Sixth At ECC Championships</title>
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      <title>STAC Cross Country Welcomes Program's Past and Present With 2025 Alumni Race</title>
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      <description>Saturday's race at Tallman Mountain State Park in Sparkill was part of the college's Spartan Spirit Homecoming Weekend.</description>
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      <title>William Whitton Takes Home ECC Men's Cross Country Rookie of the Week Honors</title>
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      <description>Whitton placed 33rd in the men's 8k race with a time of 27:55.2 at the NJIT Cross Country Invitational.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2025 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>STAC Cross Country Teams Earn Top Ten Finishes at NJIT Cross Country Invitational</title>
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      <description>Men place fifth, women eighth in Saturday's races at Branch Brook Park in Newark, New Jersey.</description>
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      <title>Pedro Mulero Martinez and Gianna Mauri Score ECC Cross Country Weekly Awards</title>
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      <description>Mulero Martinez and Mauri made the most of their opportunities at the Lehigh University Paul Short Run.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2025 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>St. Thomas Aquinas College Cross Country Program Competes At Lehigh Paul Short Run</title>
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      <description>STAC men place 27th, while the women finish 30th on Friday at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa.</description>
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      <title>Ronaldo Rodriguez Perez Scores ECC Men's Cross Country Rookie of the Week Honors</title>
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      <description>Rodriguez Perez was the top Spartan finisher, placing second overall in the men's 8k race with a time of 29:45.9.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2025 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>STAC Cross Country Teams Take Top Spots at Caldwell Cougar Chase</title>
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      <description>Spartans take to the race course at the Garret Mountain Reservation in New Jersey on Friday evening.</description>
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      <title>Ronaldo Rodriguez Perez Tabbed ECC Men's Cross Country Runner of the Week</title>
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      <description>Rodriguez Perez helped lead his team to a fourthplace finish at the Bard College Fred Pavich Invite last weekend.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2025 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>STAC Cross Country Competes in Bard College Fred Pavlich Invitational</title>
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      <title>Ronaldo Rodriguez Perez Earns ECC Men's Cross Country Rookie of the Week Honors</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2025 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Men's Cross Country Places First, Women Finish Second at Mount St. Mary Invite</title>
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      <description>Multiple Spartans record top ten finishes in the Men's 8K and Women's 5K races on Sunday.</description>
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      <title>STAC Cross Country Opens New Season At LIU Fall Festival</title>
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