Women's Outdoor Track & Field

VanDeMoere & Farr Claim GNAC Weekly Accolades

Posted: Apr 25, 2022

STANDISH, Maine – The Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) weekly awards have been released and a pair of Saint Joseph's College outdoor track & field athletes have earned accolades.

Senior Samantha VanDeMoere (Thornton, N.H.) has been named as the GNAC Women's Track Athlete of the Week and sophomore Ryan Farr (Gorham, Maine) has claimed GNAC Men's Track Athlete of the Week honors.

VanDeMoere broke the Monks' 800-meter record with a second-place time of 2:25.58 and kicked off the team's winning 4x400-meter relay (4:51.43) while placing sixth in the long jump (3.93m) and 12th in the javelin throw (19.69m) at Regis College on Saturday.

Farr won the 400-meter dash (51.61) and 200-meter dash (23.31) and kicked off the Monks' winning 4x400-meter relay (3:37.87) at Regis on Saturday.

For VanDeMoere, the GNAC weekly honor is the second of her career while Farr has now earned three conference weekly awards.

Saint Joseph's will participated in the 2022 GNAC Outdoor Track & Field Championships at Regis College this 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.