Shane McKeon

University of Scranton

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2022 Men's Cross Country

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Graduate Student Year (2022)

Senior Year (2021)

Competed in five events on the season for the Royals and earned All-Landmark First Team honors with a sixth place finish at the Landmark Conference Championships (Oct. 30)
Was the team's top finisher on four occasions
Also earned USTFCCCA All-Region honors by virtue of a 19th place finish at the NCAA Mideast Regional Meet (Nov. 13)
Posted a career-best third place finish at the Misericordia Invitational (Sept. 3)
Clocked a season-best 8K time of 26:15.2 at the Paul Short Run (Oct. 1)

Sophomore Year (2019)

Competed in all seven events and finished in the team's top five at all seven races
Recorded four top-25 finishes including a career-best 5th place finish at the Misericordia Invitational with a career-best 5K time of 17:13.3
Was the team's top finisher at the Elizabethtown Short Course Invite on Sept. 20 with a 6K mark of 19:35.73 in 22nd place
Posted an 18th place finish at the Landmark Conference Championships on Nov. 2 with an 8K time of 27:41.1
Ran a career-best 8K time of 26:10.1 at the NCAA Mideast Regionals on Nov. 16

Freshman Year (2018)

Ran in all seven events on the season and was a top-five finisher for the Royals in six of those races
Recorded three top-25 results including a season-best 11th place finish at the Cougar Classic on Sept. 15
Posted a season-best 8K time of 27:59.12 at the Dutchmen Invitational on Sept. 8.

Top 25 Finishes

3rd - 13:21.8, 4,000 meters, Misericordia Invitational, Sept. 3, 2021
5th - 17:13.3, 5,000 meters, Misericordia Invitational, Aug. 30, 2019
6th - 26:45.4, 8,000 meters, Landmark Conference Championships, Oct. 30, 2021
8th - 26:15.2, 8,000 meters, Paul Short Run, Oct. 1, 2021
9th - 19:38.4, 6,000 meters, Moravian Invitational, Sept. 17, 2021
11th - 27:18.5, 8,000 meters, Dutchmen Invitational, Sept. 7, 2019
11th - 28:58.80, 8,000 meters, Cougar Classic (Misericordia), Sept. 15, 2018
12th - 17:44.9, 5,000 meters, Misericordia Invitational, Aug. 31, 2018
18th - 27:41.01, 8,000 meters, Landmark Conference Championships, Nov. 2, 2019
19th - 27:59.12, 8,000 meters, Dutchmen Invitational, Sept. 8, 2018
22nd - 19:35.73, 6,000 meters, Elizabethtown Short Course Invite, Sept. 20, 2019

Landmark Conference Championship Finishes

2018 - 29th, 28:01.79, 8,000 meters, Oct. 27, Union Canal Tunnel Park, Lebanon, Pa.
2019 - 18th, 27:41.01, 8,000 meters, Nov. 2, Colmar Manor Community Park, Colmar Manor, Md.
2021 - 6th, 26:45.4, 8,000 meters, Oct. 30, Bicentennial Park, Bethlehem, Pa.

NCAA Mideast Regional Finishes

2018 - 151st, 28:54, 8,000 meters, Nov. 10, DeSales University, Center Valley, Pa.
2019 - 51st, 26:10.1, 8,000 meters, Nov. 16, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa.
2021 - 19th, 27:22.1, 8,000 meters, Nov. 13, Rowan University, Glassboro, N.J.

Awards & Honors

High School/Personal

Also a member of The University's men's track and field team
Earned three varsity letters in cross country and two in track & field at Pope John Paul II.
Helped his team win the PIAA District 1 Class AA cross country championship as a senior.
Was named all-conference second-team and to the conference All-Academic Team as a senior.
Was named the track & field team MVP as a senior.
Was named Pope John Paul II's Outstanding Male Student Athlete as a senior and earned Honor Roll accolades.
Son of Andrew and Theresa McKeon.
Has an older sister, Molly, and a younger brother, Andrew. Molly was on the cross country and track & field teams at Monmouth.