Kevin McDonnell, a former Camden Catholic runner from Moorestown, won the Philly 10K Sunday in 30:40.
McDonnell, who ran at St. Joe’s, finished about 100 meters ahead of 2nd-place Ethan Hermann, who ran 30:56.
At St. Joe’s, McDonnell set a school record that still stands with a 29:16.01 at 10,000 meters in a meet at Bucknell in 2013. He was runner-up in the Atlantic 10 Cross Country Championships in 2009, when St. Joe’s won its first team title since 2000. He was a two-time NCAA XC qualifier for the Hawks.
McDonnell has a 5,000 PR on the track of 14:03.52 from 2013 in Williamsburg, Va.
Runner-up Hermann attends Drexel, which does not have a track team. He’s a journalism major at Drexel and currently a music and entertainment writer for the school’s student newspaper, The Triangle.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 