Emily Teeter Helps RPI Cross Country to League Championship

2016 Oct 31

Emily Teeter of Latham 12110 helped the nationally-ranked Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) women's cross country team cruise to its second straight Liberty League Championship on Saturday at Seneca Lake State Park in Geneva, N.Y.

Emily, a Biology major

RPI finished first with 30 team points, finishing comfortably ahead of second-place St. Lawrence (46) and third-place RIT (71). Vassar (108) finished fourth followed by Clarkson (125), William Smith (191), Union (216) and Bard (237).

Complete results can be found at http://www.rpiathletics.com/sports/2016/10/29/wxc-at-liberty-league.aspx?id=3739.

The No. 16 Engineers, who have now won two meets this year with one runner-up and a third place finish, are idle until November 12 when they compete in the NCAA Atlantic Regional at Rowan University.

Founded in 1824, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is America's oldest technological research university. For nearly two centuries, the Institute has been a driving force behind breakthroughs in engineering and science in virtually every arena-from transportation and infrastructure to business, medicine, outer space, and cyberspace.

As it approaches its bicentennial anniversary, the Institute continues to define The New Polytechnic, a new paradigm for teaching, learning, and research that uses advanced technologies to enable fresh collaborations across disciplines, sectors, and regions, in order to answer the global challenges of our day.