Fagan buoyed by top award ahead of cross country test

MULLINGAR’S Martin Fagan will go to the line at today’s NCAA Cross Country Championships in Indiana buoyed by receiving a top award at the weekend.

Fagan, a senior at Providence College, is one of the favourites to land the national title in today’s 10k race at Terre Haute after an outstanding final cross country season, which earned him the US Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Male Athlete of the Year for cross country in the northeast region.

Fagan landed his second-straight BIG EAST Conference individual title in Boston on October 27 and won the NCAA Northeast Regional title for the first time on November 11 in New York. Both victories came by large margins, 22 seconds ahead of the field in Boston as he set a championship course record with a time of 23:09 over 8km.