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In almost any sport, if you spend the fewest minutes on the field of anyone on the team, it makes you a scrub or a benchwarmer. In cross country, though, this same condition makes you something different entirely: a star.

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By Steven Tydings · Sept. 9, 2014

The countdown is coming to an end: Penn football is nearing a field near you? or your Florida relative. There is just a week and a half until the Red and Blue head to the Sunshine State to take on Jacksonville, a Pioneer League squad.




Cross country coach Steve Dolan must contend with a fall season schedule devoid of home meets for the Quakers.

In almost any sport, if you spend the fewest minutes on the field of anyone on the team, it makes you a scrub or a benchwarmer. In cross country, though, this same condition makes you something different entirely: a star.