CNE Champions! Women’s Cross Country Completes Five-Peat
Suffolk women’s cross continued its league dominance as the Rams raced to their fifth consecutive conference title at the 2025 Conference of New England (CNE) Championship Saturday on the campus of Gordon College.
WENHAM, Mass. – Suffolk women's cross continued its league dominance as the Rams raced to their fifth consecutive conference title at the 2025 Conference of New England (CNE) Championship Saturday on the campus of Gordon College.
The first four runners that came through the 6k finisher's chute on the North Shore donned the blue-and-gold to clinch Suffolk's fifth title in as many years as members of the league. The blue-and-gold compiled 21 points, 53 ahead of runner-up Endicott. The University of New England completed the podium with 91 points.
Suffolk is one of only three teams to win five or more conference championships in the league's history, which dates back to 1994. The Rams are the first squad to lock up five league titles in a row since the University of New England won seven straight from 2012-18.
SUFFOLK'S SCORERS
- Sofia Moukaddem (22:04.08), Grace Miller (22:04.54), Tess Drury (22:06.87) and Amy Pattelena (22:24.18) were in a race among themselves as the Rams' foursome coasted to the first four spots in the field of 92.
- Chloe Koo crossed the tape in 23:237.74 to grab 11th and lock up Suffolk's fifth consecutive championship.
RAMS RUNNERS
- Katelyn Porter was one place outside the top 15 as she clocked a 23:53.01.
- Megan Dunn (24:33.63 – 31st), Gina Cappello (24:37.23 – 33rd), Cassie Silkoff (24:37.90 – 34th) and Bailey Ford (24:49.06 – 37th) all found spots in the top 30.
- Cassie Middleton (24:56.85) claimed 42nd and Laina Fraiser (25:34.20) was seven spots behind her.
- Kathleen Sullivan (26:02.50), Shannon Groom (26:08.70), Jaenelle Bryant (27:22.83), Kaitlyn Cullen(31:10.28) and Katarina Ferreira (31:36.47) rounded out the Rams in the race.
ALL-CNE
- Student-athletes that finish in the top 15 captured all-conference recognition.
- Moukaddem, Miller, Drury and Pattelena all received All-CNE First-Team distinctions with spots in the top five.
- Koo wrapped up a spot on the All-CNE Third-Team behind her 11th place performance.
NOTEWORTHY
- Suffolk captured the program's fifth conference championship, all of which have come in the last five years.
- The Rams have gone 5-for-5 in CNE Championships.
- Suffolk competed at the CNE Championships for the fifth time in program history.
- The Rams ran for the CNE title at Gordon for the second time, first since 2023.
- The 21 team points are the fewest for Suffolk when racing at the CNE Championship at Gordon or on any CNE league championship course.
- The five all-league honors tie for second in the Rams record book for the most all-conference distinctions in a single season sitting behind the 2022's six selection.
- Suffolk has seen five student-athletes garner all-conference the last three years.
- The four first-team honorees is a program-record for Suffolk surpassing the previous mark of two garnered a year ago when the all-conference squad was split into specific teams.
- Moukaddem is the first-ever Ram to be an individual CNE Champion. She is the third-ever Suffolk student-athlete to earn an individual league championship joining Emily Manfra and Emma Weisse, who won the Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) Individual Titles in 2019 and 2018, respectively.
- Moukaddem and Miller are the first-ever individual champion and runner up in the CNE era for Suffolk. The junior and grad student are the first Rams to do so since Manfra and Weisse went first and second at the 2019 GNACs.
- Suffolk secured the first four spots in the conference championship field for the first time in program history.
- Moukaddem captured her second all-conference award as a Ram, third overall as she picked up one for Endicott in 2022.
- Pattelena became the second-ever Suffolk female runner to earn all-league honors four times in her collegiate career, first behind Sydney Fogg, who accomplished the feat a year ago.
- Miller, Drury and Koo are all first-time All-CNE honorees.
RAMS RECORDS
- Moukaddem's 22:04.1 is a program-best for a Suffolk women runner on the 6k CNE conference championship course.
- A dozen Rams rewrote 6k personal best in Moukaddem (22:04.08), Koo (23:23.74), Porter (23:53.01), Dunn (23:33.63), Cappello (24:37.23), Silkoff (24:37.90), Ford (24:49.06), Middleton (24:56.85), Frasier (25:34.20), Sullivan (26:02.50), Bryant (27:22.83) and Cullen (31:10.28).
- Miller (22:04.54), Drury (22:06.87), Pattelena (22:24.18) and Ferreira (31:36.47) logged season best 6k times.
WHAT'S NEXT?
Suffolk rests next weekend to get ready for the 2025 NCAA Division III East Regionals at the Hopkinton Fairgrounds in Hopkinton, New Hampshire, hosted by the Rams Saturday, Nov. 15.
