Nick Lyndaker has been named Liberty League Co-Runner of the Year for the 2024 season, the conference office announced Tuesday.
Lyndaker was the individual champion at the Liberty League championship earlier this year on the Hoffmann Cross Country course. His time of 24:35.3 broke a 13-year-old Hoffmann course record, and was the fastest individual champion time in Liberty League history. He also earned all-Liberty League first-team honors with the finish.
"Nick had an amazing season this year and is very deserving of this award," said Saints head coach
John Newman. "He made a big statement by winning the individual title at the conference championship setting both a course and conference championship record. Doing this on our home course made that very special and it will go down as one of the big highlights for me and our program both for the season but also historically. He also put up three top 20 fastest ever cross country times this year which also helps to put him in a very select group of our highest achieving St. Lawrence runners."
Outside of the Liberty League, Lyndaker qualified for the NCAA championship as an individual runner with an eighth place finish at the NCAA Mideast regional. Lyndaker stuck with the top group for the majority of the race at Conn College, and stayed in contention until the final stretch, earning Mideast all-Region honors in the process.
Lyndaker finished 59
th at the NCAA championship – the third appearance of his career.
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