Women’s Cross Country: Huskies set sights on Princeton Fall Classic 

The UConn women’s cross country team will compete for a fourth time this season at the Princeton Fall Classic on the morning of Friday, Oct. 17. 

Races will start at 10:30 a.m. on the women’s side and 11:15 a.m. for the men’s teams. The course is located on Princeton’s Meadows Campus. 

The Huskies last competed in the Princeton Fall Classic in 2019, taking fourth place as a team and totaling 118 points, according to the university’s athletics page. 

Connecticut will be running for the first time since it finished third at the Paul Short Run on October 3. Three Huskies finished inside the top 50 of the race, which was held on the campus of Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa.  

The team’s highest overall finisher, Brooke Strauss, crossed the line at 20:22.4 to take 24^th place. Strauss has enjoyed a nice start to her collegiate career, taking second overall in the 5K at the Ted Owen Invite last month. 

Friday morning’s race will be her third time running as a Husky, having ran both the 5K and 6K races.  

Senior captain Chloe Trudel finished 33^rd at the Paul Short Run with a time of 20:30.1, which set a personal best for the fourth-year runner in the 6K race. 

Fellow freshman Sascha Letica finished 45^th at 20:47.5. Letica, like Strauss, also finished in the top five at the Ted Owen Invitational late last month.  

Two other Huskies competed at Lehigh. Junior Malin Rahm finished 64^th overall at 20:58.4 while senior Loghan Hughes finished 75^th at 21:05.9.  

A slew of Huskies will travel to Princeton to compete in Friday’s race. The official list of competitors has not been published yet, nor has the distance of the race.  

Connecticut currently ranks fourth in the Northeast Region of the USTFCCCA Rankings and will look to defend its ranking against a litany of regional competition.  

Look for Strauss, Trudel, sophomore Claire Paci and senior Alison McCarthy to be among the first Husky finishers. Other names to keep an eye on include Rahm, Calista Mayer and freshman Samantha Moore, who finished inside the top 20 in both of her first two races.