1987 Cross Country Team
1987 Cross Country Team
Sport(s): Cross Country
Year of Graduation: N/A
Year Inducted: 2013

Ranked nationally all season, the Monks registered a runner-up finish in the Eastern College Athletics Conference (ECAC) Championship and recorded the program’s first-ever team titles in the Maine College Championship and NCAA DIII New England Regional Championship

Saint Joseph’s participated in the NCAA National Championship for the seventh consecutive season that fall and placed eighth out of 21 teams, which, at the time, was the program’s best national meet finish

George Bockus became the first Saint Joseph’s cross country runner to earn All-America honors after placing ninth with a 24:45 effort in the National Championship – just 26 seconds off first place

Bockus and Scott Roberts claimed All-New England, All-ECAC and All-State awards and Head Coach Brian Gillespie was selected as the NCAA New England Coach of the Year

SEASON RESULTS*:

ROSTER:

Dennis Berard  Matt MacDonald
George Bockus  Marty Mullen 
Richard Brooks  Jody Norton 
Bob Camara  Richard Perry 
Frank Cody  Scott Roberts 
Jim Conery  Steve Sarkozy 
Mike Gordon  Stan Smith 
John Hallee  Steve Trudeau 
Shaun Jeffrey Brian Gillespie Head Coach
Tom Kimball   

 

  Three Questions with Coach Gillespie:  
 
         

 

 

             

*Incomplete