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2015 MAAC CROSS COUNTRY
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IONA COLLEGE
2015 MEN’S ROSTER
Location...............................NewRochelle, NY
Founded.................................................. 1940
Enrollment.............................................. 3,539
Colors.......................................Maroon&Gold
Nickname....................................Gaels
President .......................JosephE. Nyre, Ph.D.
Athletics Director..........................Rick Cole Jr.
HeadCoach.............................RicardoSantos
Assistant Coach..............................Joe Pienta
Assistant Coach.............................Josh Hibbs
NAME YR HOMETOWN/PREVIOUS SCHOOL
Andy Adamovics Jr. Skillman, NJ / Montgomery
Christian Alberico Fr. Durham, CT / Coginchaug
Brandon Allen Jr. Amherstburg, Ontario / General Amherst
Jake Byrne Gr. Mullingar, Ireland / St. Joseph’s Rochfortbridge
Alex Carter So. Bath, England / St Laurence School
Kieran Clements Sr. Hadleigh, England / Hadleigh
Liam Dee So. Welwyn, England / Richard Hale School
Sean Gorham Sr. North Easton, MA / Oliver Ames
Sebastian Hendel So. Reichenbach im Vogtland, Germany / Goethe-Gymnasium
Jac Hopkins Fr. Parkmill, Wales / Olchfa School
Kolbe Jendzejec Sr. Chappaqua, NY / Horace Greeley
Xavier King Sr. Ajax, Ontario / Abilene Christian / Pickering
Robert Kirsty So. Glenville, NY / Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake
Gilbert Kirui So. Keringet, Kenya / Chabara
Andrew Kowalsky Gr. Winsor, Ontario / Vincent Massey Secondary
Thomas McClellan Jr. Gloversville, NY / Mayfield
Chartt Miller Jr. Perth, Australia / Ocean Reef
Johannes Motschmann So. Magdeburg, Germany / Sportgymnasium
Michael O’Dowd Gr. Colts Neck, NJ / Colts Neck
Alex Shodai So. Middletown, NY / Middletown
Ryan Sleiman Jr. Kingsville, Ontario / Kingsville
Kalen Sullivan Jr. Buffalo, NY / West Seneca West
Andrew Tario Jr. West Sand Lake, NY / Averill Park
Otis Ubriaco Gr. Glenville, NY / Burnt Hills
Ross Wightman Jr. Chatham, NY / Chatham
THE MAAC AND THE WALT DISNEY WORLD RESORT ESPN WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS PARTNERSHIP
The MAAC will support 25 sports and championships
during the 2015-16 academic year, which almost
all have NCAA Championship Access through
automatic bids or regional qualifying systems.
Highlighting the MAAC’s commitment to providing a
first rate experience for its fans and student-athletes
are those championships held at the Walt Disney
World Resort ESPN Wide World of Sports.
The 2015-16 academic year represents the MAAC’s
17th year of hosting championships at the complex
where the league hosts 3 events each year. These
include one fall championship each year with all 11
member schools participating as with men’s soccer
in 2015. The sports that rotate include men’s soccer,
men’s & women’s cross country, women’s soccer,
and volleyball. In the fall of 2016, cross country
will return to the complex for its championship. The
championship operation at Disney allows the MAAC
to provide its participating student-athletes and their
families and fans a world-class sports championship
experience. The access to the playing facilities, on-
site hotels, theme parks, including an after-hours
awards banquet, are designed to provide lasting
memories as the student graduate and become
alumni of the league and its member schools.
The MAAC recently approved a new events
agreement with Disney for 2015-18, which
includes ESPN broadcasting elements for all the
championships. ESPN’s state-of-the-art studios
broadcast highlights of MAAC on-site tournaments
throughout all Disney World Resort hotel properties
as well as on ESPN3 and MAAC.TV. All MAAC
contests for Volleyball, Men’s and Women’s Soccer,
Men’s and Women’s Cross Country, and Men’s and
Women’s Golf are broadcast by ESPN’s on-site
studios. This year’s men’s soccer championships
will have its final championship game, semi-finals,
two of the quarterfinal games and two of the first
round games broadcast on ESPN3 to a national
audience available for viewing in 86 million homes
on high speed internet networks.
The MAAC has also co-hosted with ESPN since
2006 the Advocare Invitational (previously the Old
Spice Classic) at the ESPNWWS complex. This
8-team tournament is held over Thanksgiving
weekend continues to draw elite men’s basketball
teams to compete. One MAAC school is included in
the field each year and this Thanksgiving Monmouth
University will compete in this premier event.
The MAAC also hosts its Men’s & Women’s Golf
Championships at the Disney complex. The men’s
and women’s golf teams compete at PGA-caliber
courses during the spring and rotate between Palm
and Magnolia (2016) at the Arnold Palmer managed
courses. The golf hosting agreement at Disney was
recently extended through 2018 championships.
As noted before, ESPN studios in Orlando is an
important element of MAAC broadcasting efforts.
It also serves as the production site for the annual
MAAC Pre-Season Coaches Show and develops
in-season features, commercials and promotional
elements for the MAAC ESPN broadcasts and for
MAAC.TV.
During the 2012-13 season, both the Cross Country
and Golf Championships saw live coverage on
ESPN3 for the first time in MAAC history because of
the valuable partnership between the MAAC and the
Walt Disney World Resort. Also shot on site is the
annual MAAC SAAC Forum where student-athlete
leaders from all MAAC schools participate on a live
issues forum on ESPN3 form the sports complex.