Johnston’s Parker earns Second-Team All-Conference honor at RPI

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The Liberty League has announced its year-end cross country honorees and six Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) student-athletes garnered All-League recognition. The Second-Team honorees on the men’s side included Bobby Parker, a junior from Johnston who attended St. Raphael Academy.

The other honorees were senior Jacob Andrews and sophomore Benjamin Fazio. Second Team honorees were sophomore Brian Crowley for the men and sophomore Andrea Duncan and junior Shannon Trant for the women.

The All-League Teams are determined based on place of finish at the Liberty League Championship, which was held on November 1 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Individual finishers in spots one through seven earned All-Liberty League First Team honors while finishers in places eight through 15 were recognized as All-Liberty League Second Team honorees.

Fazio (East Greenwich) was second overall in the men’s championship with a time of 25:21 over the 8k course. Andrews (New Woodstock, N.Y.) was fourth, finishing in 25:31. Fazio and Andrews went on to represent Rensselaer at the NCAA Championship in Ohio, with Fazio becoming the school’s first National All-America in men’s cross country when he finished 26th. Andrews was 52nd in the field of 280 competitors.

Crowley (Ludlow, Mass.) )took ninth (25:52) and Parker came in right behind him in 10th (26:01) at the league meet last month. As a team, the Engineers were second of the eight schools in the event.

Rensselaer’s women, who finished fourth, were led by Trant (Niskayuna, N.Y.), who was eighth over the 6k course with a time of 22:39. Duncan (Underhill, Vt.) finished in 23:08, which was good enough for 14th place in the 110-person field.

Both Rensselaer cross country teams are coached by John Lynch.

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