With nearly their entire rosters returning intact, the Drew University men's and women's cross country teams will take to the course with high hopes in 2026 under sixth-year Head Coach Sean Robinson.

On the women's side, the Rangers bring back nine of its runners from last year's squad that turned in the highest finish in team history at an NCAA regional championship, as the squad placed 10th at the Metro Championship. Meanwhile, the men's team returns eight harriers and enters the season with 12 runners, marking one of the squad's largest rosters in recent memory.

The women's team, ranked No. 9 in the USTFCCCA Division III Metro Region poll, is paced by a pair of All-Landmark Conference performers in graduate student Kate Rice and senior Skyler McGuire. A two-time team MVP, Rice placed 15th at the Landmark Conference Championships last season while McGuire was close behind in 18th place, and both earned all-conference honorable mention while becoming Drew's first all-conference performers in women's cross country since 2012.

Rice, who ran the fastest time in team history for both 6K (22:19) and 5K (18:25) two years ago, was the Rangers' top finisher in six of her seven races in 2025, when she ran a season-best time of 23:32 for 6K. She was also broke the top-50 at the NCAA Metro Region Championships last season.

McGuire was Drew's No. 1 finisher at the NCAA Regional Championships, where she finished 43rd overall while clocking a career-best time for 6K (23:24). She was also the second Ranger to cross the line in eight of her other nine races for the year.

A pair of additional graduate students also return in Annelise Wade and Emily Camlet. Wade was Drew's top finisher in each of the team's first two races of the year and recorded a career-best 5K time of 20:32. Camlet will provide outstanding leadership as a track & field standout who placed 13th in the 400-meter dash at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Championships to earn Second Team All-America status.

Also returning are seniors Sarah Hattan and Sophia Kim and juniors Isabella Fortunato, Bella Polizzi and Perri Rubin.

Hattan scored for the Rangers as one of the team's top-five runners in four of her five races last season, including the NCAA Regional, where she was the team's No. 4 runner and ran a season-best time of 24:49. Kim was a top-five runner for Drew in three races in her first season of cross country last year, including at the Landmark Conference Championships, where she was the fifth Ranger to cross the line while running a season-best time of 25:43.

Fortunato was a top-five runner in seven races last season, including at the Landmark Conference Championships, where she finished fourth among the Rangers while running a season-best time of 24:58. Rubin cracked the top-five for Drew in six different races and was the team's fifth runner at the NCAA Regional, where she raced to a career-best time of 24:50. Polizzi ran in four races last season with a season-best time of 27:00.

Sophomore Maycie Treney will also enter her first season for the Rangers.

The men's team is fronted by the duo of senior Tommy Edwards and junior Matt Ellis, who were Drew's top two finishers at each of its championship meets. The team MVP, Edwards was the top Ranger to finish in seven different races last season, including the Landmark Conference Championships, where he place 25th with a career-best 8K time of 26:26. He also finished well under 27 minutes at the Rowan Inter-Regional Border Battle, where he clocked a 26:31.

Ellis finished among Drew's top-three runners in each of his eight races a year ago, including the NCAA Regional, where he was the team's top finisher. At the same meet, he clocked the fastest time of his career at 27:05, good for a 72nd-place finish. Ellis also finished 49th at the Landmark Conference Championships.

Junior Eliot Vishnevsky also returns for his third season on the team. He scored for the Rangers in four different races and was the team's No. 4 runner at NCAA Regionals, and he registered his career-best time of 29:19 at the Landmark Conference Championships.

Four sophomores also return this season in Luke Krafton, Patrick Robinson, Chris Tocci, and Matt Vargas.

Tocci was a top-five finisher for Drew in six races and scored for the Rangers at both championships meets, finishing fourth on the team at the conference meet and fifth for Drew at regionals. His PR of 28:19 made him the team's third-fastest runner for the season. Vargas also scored in six races and was Drew's No. 3 runner at the Landmark Conference Championships, where he recorded a PR of 28:23. Krafton ran in seven races and ran a season-best of 30:47 while Robinson competed in eight races, notching a PR of 33:12.

Five newcomers will round out the roster and help provide the team with outstanding depth. Senior Aidan Riccardo has joined the team this season after becoming the first Ranger in the three-year history of Drew track & field to complete a decathlon this past spring. Other rookies include junior Kevin Profico and freshmen Sean Flynn, Chase Riley, and John Zeqa.

Drew opens its season on Sept. 12 at the Misericordia Invitational.