Crompton Earns Rookie and Runner of the Year

2017 Jan 25

Following a season that has featured five top fives and three first place finishes, Crompton has claimed the highly-coveted NAC Rookie and Runner of the Year awards.

Crompton made her presence known right away, opening the season with back-to-back first place finishes in the Southern Vermont Invitational and Castleton Invitational. The freshman picked up second place and fourth place finishes in the Vermont State Meet and Western New England Invitational, respectively, which was preceded by an impressive 11th place finish in the five-kilometer UMass-Dartmouth Invitational that featured 275 runners from the top division I, II, and III competitors in the region. Crompton continued her strong season when she took first place in the NAC Championship at Johnson State, featuring the league's best in the 86-runner, 5K event. Crompton finished the race with a time of 21:02, which was 12 seconds faster than the second place runner. Bassette and O'Callaghan joined Crompton in the top ten with fourth place and sixth place finishes in the conference championship, respectively.