Bloomfield's Tum Breaks CACC X-C Meet Record
Oct 23, 2004

Felician Wins Third Team Championship

PHILADELPHIA, PA--Freshman Walter Tum of Bloomfield College broke the meet record at Saturday's Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference Men's Cross-Country Championship en route to being named 2004 CACC Runner of the Year and Newcomer of the Year at Belmont Plateau.

Tum completed the 8,000-meter (five-mile) course in 26 minutes, 37.55 seconds. He finished more than 42 seconds ahead of his nearest competitor, freshman Mike Burghoffer of Felician College. Seventeen runners turned in times lower than 30 minutes, the most in the five-year history of the event.

Felician put four runners in the top seven and all seven of its competitors among the top 17 to easily capture the team title. Six Golden Falcons attained all-CACC status, including Burghoffer and fourth-place finisher Sergio Zea. Felician also won the championship in 2000 and 2001.

Felician's John Brennan was named Coach of the Year by his peers. Second-place Nyack College was selected as the Team Sportsmanship Award winner. Team standings and the all-conference team are listed below. Complete results are available at http://www.geocities.com/xcresults/CACC.html.

TEAM STANDINGS

1. Felician 2 4 6 7 13 -- 32

2. Nyack 5 8 11 15 18 -- 57

3. Goldey-Beacom 9 10 19 22 23 -- 83

4. NJIT 12 20 27 28 29 -- 116

5. Holy Family 3 32 36 38 45 -- 154

6. USP 26 30 31 37 40 -- 164

7. Wilmington 16 34 42 52 54 -- 198

8. Bloomfield 1 50 51 55 63 -- 220

9. Teikyo Post 44 46 47 58 60 -- 255

10. Dominican 48 49 56 57 59 -- 269

2004 ALL-CACC TEAM

1. Walter Tum, Bloomfield 26:37.55

2. Mike Burghoffer, Felician 27:21.60

3. Andrew Phillips, Holy Family 27:34.23

4. Sergio Zea, Felician 27:41.48

5. Andrew Brackmann, Nyack 28:04.22

6. Matt Miller, Felician 28:05.76

7. Nick Freeman, Felician 28:10.54

8. James Sanchez, Nyack 28:14.88

9. Brad Paski, Goldey-Beacom 28:35.42

10. Matt Lang, Goldey-Beacom 28:42.06

11. Martin Cavanna, Nyack 28:56.02

12. Matthew Magnifico, NJIT 28:59.26

13. Andrew Conklin, Felician 29:03.27

14. Sean Emmerling, Felician 29:15.24

15. Ben Haggerty, Nyack 29:21.67

RUNNER OF THE YEAR

Walter Tum, Bloomfield

NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR

Walter Tum, Bloomfield

COACH OF THE YEAR

John Brennan, Felician

TEAM SPORTSMANSHIP AWARD

Nyack