Ruccio Earns Rookie of the Year Honors for Marywood’s First-Ever MAC Major Award

Owings Mills, Md. — Marywood University freshman Joelle Ruccio earned Middle Atlantic Conference Women’s Cross Country Rookie of the Year honors on Saturday. Ruccio was the top first-year runner at the MAC Championships held at Stevenson University. Ruccio earned Marywood’s first-ever major MAC award in the university’s first championship appearance in the conference. The Fanwood, N.J. freshman finished fifth overall out of 135 runners. She completed the 6K course in 22:42.32 with a 6:05.3 average pace. Marywood finished 12th out of 15 teams with 294 teams. The Pacers had an average time of 26 minutes, 33 seconds. Janelle Sanabria finished…