Men's Indoor Track & Field

Benson Earns GNAC Track Athlete of the Week

Posted: Dec 14, 2021

STANDISH, Maine – The Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) weekly honors have been announced and Saint Joseph's College senior James Benson (Gorham, Maine) has been selected as the GNAC Men's Indoor Track & Field Athlete of the Week.

Benson won the triple jump with a team-record 12.73 effort and broke another team mark with a third-place finish, and 6.54m performance, in the long jump at Southern Maine on Saturday. The senior also placed sixth with a 6.78 time in the 55-meter dash. The long jump mark is tops in the GNAC and second in DIII New England.

Saint Joseph's returns to action on Saturday, January 8th with another appearance at University of Southern Maine.

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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.