FLUSHING, NY --- (www.YORKATHLETICS.com) York College's Keanna Clouden was cited as a 2025 CUNYAC Women's Cross Country Preseason Runner to Watch when league officials released the eight-member group. This is the second consecutive season where Clouden has represented York on the women's cross country watch list. 

Debuting for the cross country program last season, she ran in five meets and produced four first-place team results. Clouden posted a career-best 6k time (35:53.1) at the Medgar Evers College Invitational (Oct. 20), and finished in 46th at the conference year-end event (Oct. 27). For her efforts, the Brooklyn native landed on the 2024 CUNYAC Women's Cross Country Sportsmanship Team and claimed the 2024-25 York College Women's Cross Country Most Outstanding Award.

Coaches voted York to finish eighth in this season's CUNYAC standings.

2025 CUNYAC Women's Cross Country Preseason Coaches Poll

	Points (First-Place Votes)
1. Hunter College	49 (7)
2. John Jay College	43 (1)
3. Baruch College	34
4. CCNY	30
5. Medgar Evers College	26
6. Brooklyn College	20
7. Lehman College	13
8. York College	9

Hunter College dominated the poll, receiving 49 points and seven first-place nods. John Jay College also received validation with 43 points and the other first-place vote. York accumulated nine points. The Cardinals' seven-meet schedule begins with the Herb Lorenz Invitational on September 13 with the St. Joseph's University (L.I) Golden Eagle Invitational hosted by Stony Brook University. 

The 2025 CUNYAC Championships will take place on October 26 at Van Cortlandt Park, as the Cardinals look to kick-start their program under first-year head coach Alex Dankwa. 

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