NEW LONDON, N.H. – October 8, 2019 – Colby-Sawyer first-year runner Shannon O'Connell (Peabody, Mass.) has been named the Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) Runner and Rookie of the Week.  

O'Connell set a new Chargers 5K record to lead Colby-Sawyer at Saturday's Keene State Invitational. O'Connell posted a new program standard of 18:55.4 to beat the previous record of 19:11.07 set by Emily Lopez '17 on September 17, 2016 at UMass Dartmouth. O'Connell finished 16th out of 185 runners to help the Chargers place 8th out of 19 teams.

Full GNAC Release > HERE

The Chargers compete at Westfield State this Saturday.   

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