In the highly anticipated rematch between the Grove City Wolverines and the Waynesburg University Yellow Jackets at the Presidents’ Athletic Conference Championships this past Saturday, Waynesburg repeated as PAC champions, defeating the Wolverines by 33 points. The Wolverines had won the conference title for 27 consecutive years until a season ago. Now, the Yellow Jackets … Continue reading
Everyone on Waynesburg University’s women’s cross country program was running for a championship title on Saturday, yet for Angie Marchetti, the Yellow Jackets top runner, she ran for Jan. 6, 2017 – the day her father passed away. Ever since her father passed away from stage-4 brain cancer, Marchetti said she and her twin sister, … Continue reading
Over the past seven years, cross country head coach Chris Hardie has seemingly checked off every box of accomplishments possible – but for him, there’s still more left to do. After the women’s team won the championship for the second straight year on Saturday, Oct. 28, Hardie won PAC Coach of the Year for a … Continue reading
In its last meet before looking to defend its Presidents’ Athletic Conference Championship title in two weeks, the Waynesburg University women’s cross country team raced against some of the top schools in the nation this past Saturday, Oct. 14, at the Rowen Inter-Regional Border Battle. The Yellow Jackets placed 10th out of 24 teams in … Continue reading
While many students will be heading home to spend their fall breaks to decompress after the first few weeks of the new semester, the Waynesburg University women’s cross country team will be in action on its first day of break. The Yellow Jackets will head to Glassboro, New Jersey to partake in the Rowan Inter-Regional … Continue reading
The Waynesburg University women’s cross country team placed 4th out of the 17-team field this past weekend at the 2017 Dickinson Long and Short Invitational. The race is not a traditional cross country race, as the day was split into two races for the women, that being a six-kilometer race, the typical distance for collegiate … Continue reading
Although not a hard-hitting contact sport, cross country runners get injured just as frequently as other athletes. According to Chris Hardie, the Waynesburg University women’s cross country team may very well have more injuries this season than it ever has had in program history. Having a roster of 27 active athletes will do that to … Continue reading
Although unusual this early in the cross country season, this past weekends Allegheny Classic in Meadville, Pennsylvania, featured four women’s cross country teams all holding the talent to be nationally ranked for Division III, Waynesburg University being one of them. The Yellow Jackets finished third in the three-mile race, with 107 points, beating Allegheny College, … Continue reading
Coming off the most successful season in program history, in which the Waynesburg University Women’s Cross Country team was able to snap Grove City’s 27-year streak atop the Presidents Athletic Conference standings, Coach Chris Hardie still sees a potentially brighter future ahead. This past weekend, the Yellow Jackets traveled to Bethany, West Virginia to partake … Continue reading
