NCAA D2 - Regionals Wrap-up Women
Summary: A relatively huge number of NY women's runners qualified for D2 Nationals as two NY schools earned spots for the championship in Joplin, MO on November 21 to help the state push the total runners payload to 13. Again as with the guys, Edinboro PA accounted for three NY slots among the women from the Atlantic regional. But with Roberts Wesleyan and St. Thomas Aquinas finishing 2nd and 3rd in the East to qualify for Nationals, 10 more NY runners got their tickets. Top finisher was actually from another NY school Daemen, as Mackenzie Donahue grabbed one of the three at-large places with a 3rd in the East, and also finishing in the top 10 with her was Pavilion's former state champion Elizabeth Valento, now with Roberts Wesleyan.
Region	Runners - Place (College + HS Teams)	Top 3 and Team Results
Atlantic	Abbey Lang - 24 (Edinboro + Lockport), Emma Sullivan - 25 (Edinboro + Mount St. Mary), Rebekkah Bond - 43 (Edinboro + Franklin Academy)	1. California (PA) 105, 2. Edinboro 112, 3. Shippensburg 116
East	Mackenzie Donahue - 3 (Daemen + East Aurora), Elizabeth Valento - 8 (Roberts Wesleyan + Pavilion), Meaghan Ventarola - 12 (St. Thomas Aquinas + Monroe-Woodbury), Kristen Borriello - 13 (St. Thomas Aquinas + Valley Central), Brittany Ward - 30 (Roberts Wesleyan + Greece Athena), Emily Betts - 31 (Roberts Wesleyan + Clarkstown North), Kaitlin O'Grady - 40 (St. Thomas Aquinas + North Rockland), Rachel Hutchinson - 62 (Roberts Wesleyan + Dryden), Cecelia Pflegling - 68 (St. Thomas Aquinas + St. John Villa), Patricia Nerston - 133 (St. Thomas Aquinas + St. John Villa)	1. Stonehill 48, 2. Roberts Wesleyan 128, 3. St. Thomas Aquinas 160, 4. Daemen 178, 5. Bentley 180, . . . 8. Merrimack 260, . . . 10. Adelphi 327, 11. Nyack 372, . . . 13. Le Moyne 401, . . . 16. NYIT 434, . . . 14. Liu Post 484, . . . 22. Pace 532, . . . 24. Saint Rose 565
	(NQ-Top 50): Talya Williams - 6 (LIU Post + Notre Dame-Bishop Gibbons), Elizabeth Stirling - 19 (LIU Post + Wantagh), Michelle Lujan - 20 (Saint Rose + Cornwall), Jeanette Cudney - 25 (Le Moyne + Cazenovia), Cecelia Capozzoli - 32 (Adelphi + Sacred Heart), Hannah Rice - 38 (Daemen + East Aurora), Mariah Jno-Charles - 44 (Pace + Bellport), Brittany Denton - 45 (Daemen + Oakfield-Alabama), Kristen Schmidt - 46 (Merrimack + Coxsackie-Athens), Marianne Bartolotta - 49 (Bentley + Holy Trinity)

 

Roberts Wesleyan's Elizabeth Valento helped lead her team to 2nd in the D2 East Regionals.