Congratulations 2019 Boys Cross Country

2019 Fall Boys Top Team Academic Honors 

Team MVP: Robert Doherty
Team Scholarship Athlete: Jonathan Solar

The Boys Cross Country team had a season filled with upsets and down.  This young team entered the season with high hope and had to battle to overcome some early season injuries to a few key athletes.  The team persevered but was unable to reach its goal of continuing the team’s usual championship standards. The hard work and effort did pay off with some bright individual achievements as 4 of the boys, Jonathan Solar, Patrick Finegan, Luke Connolly, and Robert Doherty achieved All League with Patrick and Jonathan also garnering All State. Reassuringly, there's a bright light at the end of the tunnel as evidenced by the JV winning the League Championship and the Freshmen winning the State Catholic Championship. 

Head Coach Tim Dearie

Coach Tim Dearie is a St. Anthony’s Alum from the Class of ‘79 and has been coaching since 1984.  Coach Dearie just finished his 105th season as a Cross Country and Track and Field coach. 66 of them were at St. Anthony’s.  Coach Dearie’s St. Anthony’s varsity teams have won 45 League Championships and 21 State Catholic Intersection titles. He is also the winningest coach at the State Federation Cross Country Championships with five team titles.  He has coached countless individual and relay state champions as well as a Distance Medley Relay Team that won Penn Relays this season. Coach has helped develop more than fifty All Americans and is very proud that over thirty of his former athletes have gone on to become track and/or cross country coaches. 

All boys interested in running will report Aug 19th at Sunken Meadow 5:30 p.m.
Cross country does not have formal tryouts.

Practice begins at 5:30pm at the start of the cross country line (large main field)

5:30pm for 8/20-23 and 8/26-8/29

For more information reach out to head Coach Tim Dearie at tdearie@optonline.net

Congratulations MASSON GATEWOOD '18

Almost no one challenged Gatewood during the fall of 2017.
Capped off senior year with a victory in the Federation cross country championships (15:52.4)
Finished 10th-place at the Foot Locker Northeast Regional (15:54.8), which qualified him for the Foot Locker National Championships in San Diego.
Named Gatorade New York Boys Cross Country Runner of the year.
Took first-place in the Boys Eastern States race at the Manhattan Cross Country  Invitational on Oct. 14th. With a time of 12:16 on the 2.5 mile course.
Newsday Athlete of the Week in 2017
Newsday Long Island Runner of the Year
SA MVP Cross Country and Spring Track seasons,
All American Honors for three season in 2017-18 school year
Currently running at Penn State.