Eight Golden Bear Cross Country Runners earn 2025 All-PSAC Honors

The Kutztown University cross country teams had eight runners earn All-Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) honors at the PSAC Championships Saturday, Oct. 25, Edinboro, Pa.

All-PSAC First Team honors go to runners finishing 1st-15th, while 16th-30th earn Second Team accolades.

On the women's side, Maura Lenhart's 10th-place finish and second straight All-PSAC First Team honor paced the Kutztown University women's cross country team, as it finished fifth at the PSAC Championships. Lenhart held down a spot inside the top 12 over the entire 6k race at the Doug Watts Cross Country Course and finished strong by picking up two spots over the final half mile to secure her first career top 10 finish at the conference meet. The junior from Center Valley, Pa., crossed the line in 23:03.4, holding off Shippensburg's Mya Trotty by 0.9 seconds for the final top 10 spot. Lenhart improved upon her 14th-place finish at last year's PSAC Championships.

Running in just her second meet of the season, redshirt freshman Gabby Keith claimed All-PSAC Second Team honors with a 24th-place performance (23:29.3). Keith, who made her KU debut earlier this month at the Lehigh Paul Short Run, also made a late push after crossing the 1- and 2-mile checkpoints in 30th. Her 24th-place standing at the finish was her highest position of the meet. Graduate student Sophia Knerr collected her fourth career All-PSAC Second Team finish with a 28th-place showing. Knerr completed the 6k race in 23:42.7. Her previous all-conference finishes came in 2021, 2022 and 2024.

On the men's side, KU had a program record five runners securing all-conference finishes as the Golden Bears matched their highest-ever finish of third at the PSAC Championships. Consistency proved to be the name of the game for the Maroon and Gold. All five scoring runners were separated by just over 35 seconds and finished between 14th and 28th in the 154-runner field. The result was KU's highest team finish under current head coach Ray Hoffman and equaled the program's best-ever finish at the conference meet, set back in 1994.

Redshirt senior Jack Hollar led the way with a 14th-place finish for All-PSAC First Team honors. Hollar got around the 8k layout at the Doug Watts Cross Country Course in 25:35.21 for his second career all-conference finish. The East Stroudsburg, Pa., native placed 17th at the 2023 PSAC Championships.

Though Hollar was Kutztown's lone First Team finisher inside the top 15, his teammates were in close pursuit to claim Second Team honors. Sophomore Peyton Small became a first time All-PSAC honoree with a 16th-place finish in 25:36.21, while senior Adam Brocato ran to his third All-PSAC finish in 17th (25:39.0). Brocato previously earned a First Team finish (13th) in 2024 and Second Team finish in 2022 (22nd).

Senior Robby Lloyd and redshirt senior Port Habalar joined Small with their maiden all-conference honors. Lloyd crossed the line in 19th (25:49.0) and Habalar was 28th (26:10.8).