Delsea’s Laney Vecchio runs through blizzard to become Rowan College Gloucester County’s first national XC champion in 31 years!!!!!!!!

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Delsea graduate Laney Vecchio, a freshman at Rowan College Gloucester County, won the NJCAA Division 3 national title Saturday in Fort Dodge, Iowa.

Vecchio ran 20:20.5 through heavy snow over 5,000 meters at Lakeside Golf Course.

She won the National Junior College Athletic Association title by 50 meters over Tyliyah Diaz-Cruz of Thaddeus Stevens Tech. Diaz-Cruz ran 20:32.8.

Vecchio is the school’s first national XC champion in 31 years, since Valerie Banks of Millville won the 1994 race at Alfred State University in Allegany County, N.Y. The school was then known as Gloucester County College.

According to her TFRRS page, Vecchio only ran one race before nationals, the Region 19 qualifier at Thaddeus Stevens Tech in Lancaser, Pa.

At Delsea last fall, Vecchio placed 9th in the Gloucester County Championships and 22ndat South Jersey Group 3 Sectionals, where she PR’d with a 19:55.05 at DREAM Park in Logan Township.

There is no mention of Vecchia’s race on Rowan College Gloucester County’s web site.

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