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Andrew Benford Interview-3rd Place 2014 Collegiate Mountain Running National Championship (July 6-Loon Mountain, New Hampshire)

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CollegiateRunning   Jul 14th 2014, 9:29pm
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Andrew Benford (Princeton University) placed 3rd in the inaugural Collegiate Running Association National Mountain Running Championships held within the 2014 Loon Mountain Race in Lincoln, New Hampshire on July 6.  Benford spoke with us following the race, where not only did he earn $600 for his 3rd place finish in the Collegiate National Championship, he also finished 9th in the U.S. Championship. Here is Andrew’s unedited video interview…

Benford has started graduate work at Princeton University making him eligible for the Collegiate Running Association’s National Championships. He earned NCAA DI All-America honors in the 3KSC for the University of Richmond in 2011…was crowed Atlantic 10 Cross Country Champion in 2010 and helped the Spiders to a 24th place finish in the 2010 NCAA DI Cross Country Championships.  He was selected to the 2006 U.S. Junior (under 20) Mountain Running Team (USMRT) and ran his way onto the 2009 USMRT for the World Mountain Running Championships. 

A record number of entries and participants were on hand for the 2014 Loon Mountain Race in Lincoln, N.H.. For the first time in history college students competed for a National Championship in Mountain Running on July 6, 2014.  The Loon Mountain Race served as not only the inaugural Collegiate Running Association National Mountain Running Championship but also the U.S. National Mountain Running Championship (USATF) with the top 6 U.S. men and top 4 U.S. women earning a spot on the #USMRT for the 30th World Mountain Running Championship. With new NCAA legislation (August 2013) permitting varsity NCAA DI athletes to accept prize money, the newly formed Collegiate Running Association provided $6,000 in prize money specifically reserved for college students who were enrolled in at least 1 college course at any level (undergraduate, graduate or post graduate) between January 1 and the day of the race. The women’s race was a 4.8 mile climb with over 2,800 vertical feet of elevation gain with the final ascent reaching an incline exceeding 40%. Known in the running world as a race to put on your “bucket list” it’s mystique met every expectation.  An excellent race!

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