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2025 Men's Cross Country Roster

Joseph Bertola

  • Class Junior
  • Hometown Orchard Park, N.Y.
  • High School Orchard Park

Biography

2024-25 (Sophomore):
Outdoor: Opened the spring with a fourth-place finish in the 3000-meter (8:33.01) in the Stony Brook Snowflake Classic… Placed top 15 and set a new personal best in the 5000-meter (14:39.27) at the Colonial Relays… Had a top-five finish and recorded a new career best in the 1500-meter (3:59.08) in the Mark Young Invitational… At the CAA Outdoor Championships finished in 13th place in the 5000-meter (15:37.70).

Indoor: Posted back-to-back top 15 finishes in the 3000-meter at the Rutgers Holiday Classic (8:44.07) and the Spartan Invitational (8:44.08) to begin the winter… Finished sixth in the 3000-meter (8:47.35) at the Ramapo College Season Opener… Had a sixth-place finish in the 5000-meter (15:04.28) in the Riverhawk Invitational…Posted his best finish of the season as a member of the distance medley relay team which finished in second (10:23.91) at the Fastrack National Invite… Also ran a career-best 4:20.18 in the mile at the Fastrack National Invite… Set another personal best at the Yale Giegengack Invitational in the 3000-meter (8:28.94), finishing fifth in the process… Finished top 15 in the 5000-meter (14:58.55) at the CAA Indoor Championships.

Cross Country: Finished 29th in the 6K (20:36.5), a personal season-best placement at Stony Brook Season Opener to help the Seawolves secure the top team finish… Set new personal best in 8K (26:02.5) race at Princeton Fall Classic.

2023-24 (Freshman): 
Outdoor: Finished fifth overall in the 3000-meter (8:44.78) at the Stony Brook Snowflake Classic… Earned a personal best 4:04.92 in the 1500-meter for 10th place at the Monmouth Season Opener… Recorded another personal best in the 5000-meter (15:08.32) at the Colonial Relays… Competed in the 1500-meter (4:12.52) at the UCONN Northeast Challenge… Concluded the season placing fourth in the 5000-meter (15:20.62) at the Mark Young Invitational. 

Indoor: Competed in the 3000-meter (8:54.55) at the Rutgers Holiday Classic… Earned a personal best 4:22.46 in the mile run at the Penn Select 10… Ran the 3000-meter (8:53.23) at the Villanova Invitational… Recorded another personal best in the 3000-meter (8:44.17) at the Scarlet Knight Open… Competed in the mile run (4:34.09) at the Fastrack National Invite… Had a top 15 finish in the mile run (4:22.81) and the 4x800 (8:03.72) at the CAA Indoor Championships.

Cross Country: Made his collegiate debut at the Friar Invitational (52nd place) where the Seawolves secured the top team finish.

Historical Player Information

  • 2023Freshman

  • 2024Sophomore

  • 2025Junior

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