<body><div>On Oct. 5, the Kenyon men’s and women’s cross-country teams competed in the 50th-annual Paul Short Run, an event held on the Goodman Campus Cross Country Course at Lehigh University (Pa.). In a field of 41 teams, the men finished in 27th, while the women finished 13th out of 32 teams.Men: The top finisher for the Owls was Josh Breard ’26, who ran the 8k race in 26:29.0, which was good for 138th place and 133 team points. This was a season-best time for Breard, who has led Kenyon to the line in all three races that he has competed in this year. Kenyon’s other four scoring runners all finished close to one another, each crossing the line within a second of each other. Peter Bernhardt ’25 paced the group with a time of 26:45.2, which was a new season best and placed him 168th. At 26:46.1, Dylan Sibbitt ’26 crossed the line. Charlie Blackmer ’28 finished at 26:46.7, and then, at 26:46.8, Henry Rodrigues ’26 rounded out Kenyon’s group of scoring runners.Kenyon scored a total of 772 points in a massive field of 378 runners, which constitutes a solid performance for the Owls. Blackmer attributed the team’s success to its ability to push through adversity. “Some of us didn’t run our best race while some of us ran really well. Despite this, we were able to help each other through the race and finish together,” he wrote in an email to the Collegian.Women: Penny Griffioen ’27 was the first Kenyon runner to cross the finish line, running the 6k course in 24:25.2 and earning 51st place and 49 team points. This was Griffioen’s second time leading the team to the line in the Owls’ last two races. Not far behind Griffioen was Ellianne Retzlaff ’25, who turned in the best run of her Kenyon career. She finished with a time of 24:31.1, which was good for 59th place out of the 245 runners. Olivia Ide ’27 was Kenyon’s third scoring runner, as she ran a time of 24:38.9 to secure 64th place and 62 team points. Ide was followed by Lucie Prior ’28, who ran a time of 25:03.5 to take 81st place, and Eva Shannon ’27, who ran a time of 25:38.8 to earn 101st place.Led by Griffioen and Retzlaff, the Owls put together a strong race. Ide was satisfied with the team’s performance and credits their success to the team’s ability to stick together. “I thought we performed incredibly well as a team,” she wrote in an email to the Collegian. “We had a lot of runners finish very close together, and everyone did a great job of sticking together to work towards the finish.”Kenyon will return to competition on Friday as both the men’s and women’s teams will compete in the annual JennaStrong Fall Classic at Wilmington College. Dylan Sibbitt ’26 is the opinions editor of the Collegian.</div></body>

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Owls race in Pennsylvania, men take 27th, women 13th

On Oct. 5, the Kenyon men’s and women’s cross-country teams competed in the 50th-annual Paul Short Run, an event held on the Goodman Campus Cross Country Course at Lehigh University (Pa.). In a field of 41 teams, the men finished in 27th, while the women finished 13th out of 32 teams.