Men's Cross Country

Hendricks Named GNAC Runner of the Week

Posted: Sep 08, 2021

STANDISH, Maine – The Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) weekly accolades have been announced and Saint Joseph's College senior Troy Hendricks (Hiram, Maine) has been selected as the GNAC Men's Cross Country Runner of the Week.

Hendricks was the top GNAC finisher in the Charger Invitational 5K at Colby-Sawyer on Saturday. Hendricks led the Monks with a time of 17:05 to take sixth overall.

For Hendricks, the GNAC weekly honor is the fourth of his collegiate career. The 2019 First Team All-GNAC runner was selected as the GNAC Rookie of the Week twice during his freshman season and claimed Runner of the Week acclaim on September 16th, 2019.

Saint Joseph's will compete in the University of New England Invitational on Saturday.

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Founded in 1912 by the Sisters of Mercy in Portland, Maine, Saint Joseph’s College is Maine’s Catholic liberal arts college in the Mercy tradition. We are inclusive of all faiths, including no faith. The 474-acre campus, located on the shore of Sebago Lake in Standish, Maine offers more than 40 undergraduate programs and a Division III athletic program to a population of approximately 1,000 on-campus students. A pioneer of distance education since the 1970s, the College also provides online certificates and undergraduate and graduate degrees for thousands more working adults who reside in more than 20 other countries. In 2015 the College was selected by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching to receive its Community Engagement Classification, highlighting the College’s focus on community service throughout its mission and daily interactions within local, regional, and global communities. In 2018, Princeton Review recognized SJC as one of its “Green Colleges” for its sustainability initiatives. Learn more at www.sjcme.edu.