Fox and Knight Win ACC Postseason Awards
12/7/2016 3:22:00 PM | Cross Country
Fox earns fourth-straight ACC Coach of the Year, while Knight earns second-straight ACC Performer of the Year honors
Four years in the ACC, four ACC Coach of the Year honors for Chris Fox and three Men's Performer of the Year honors for his student-athletes.
On Wednesday, the league announced Fox had earned the ACC Coach of the Year award for the fourth-straight season after guiding the Orange to its second-straight podium finish at the NCAA Championship and once again collecting both ACC and NCAA Northeast Region Championships.
Justyn Knight, NCAA runner-up and the individual champion at the NCAA Northeast Regional, ACC Championship, Nuttycombe Wisconsin Invitational and Panorama Farms Invitational, was named ACC Male Performer of the Year for the second-straight season. It also marked the third year in a row that a member of the Orange took home the award, after Martin Hehir earned the honor in 2014.
Knight was the leader for the Orange which took third at the NCAA Championship, the program's second-best finish since 1954 behind last year's national championship, with the Vaughan, Ontario native taking second overall which tied Ray Osterhaut (1952) for the best individual finish in program history.
With one season of eligibility remaining and the only runner in the top-four of the NCAA Championships returning next season, Knight has the potential to be just the third runner in Syracuse history, and first since 1954, to finish in the top-10 three times in his career and could join Osterhaut as the only other competitor to have all-three finishes be in the top-four.
Majoring in social work at the David B. Falk College, Knight is the first member of the Orange to win four individual meets in the same season since Jim O'Connell in 1982. Including indoor and outdoor track, Knight has earned All-America accolades in five-straight seasons.
Fox took another step in cementing his program's return to being one of the sport's elite destinations for student-athletes this season by following up the 2015 NCAA title with a third-place finish at nationals this season. Under his tutelage, three members of the Orange earned USTFCCCA All-America honors, with Colin Bennie (two-time recipient) and Joel Hubbard joining Knight in receiving the honor.
The 2015 National Coach of the Year, he also led the Orange to once again be a dominant force on the east coast this season, picking up his 10th NCAA Northeast Regional Championship between the men's and women's programs this season, with six members of the Orange earning USTFCCCA All-Region honors (Knight, Bennie, Hubbard, Iliass Aouani, Philo Germano and Adam Visokay). That performance came two weeks after Syracuse posted its lowest point total ever in any of their conference championship meets, cruising to a dominant, fifth-straight conference championship. In that meet, seven members of the Orange earned All-ACC honors (Knight, Bennie, Hubbard, Germano, Aouani, Visokay and Kevin James).
With five members of Syracuse's seven-man NCAA Championship roster returning in 2017, Fox is primed to continue the Orange's success at the national level.
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On Wednesday, the league announced Fox had earned the ACC Coach of the Year award for the fourth-straight season after guiding the Orange to its second-straight podium finish at the NCAA Championship and once again collecting both ACC and NCAA Northeast Region Championships.
Justyn Knight, NCAA runner-up and the individual champion at the NCAA Northeast Regional, ACC Championship, Nuttycombe Wisconsin Invitational and Panorama Farms Invitational, was named ACC Male Performer of the Year for the second-straight season. It also marked the third year in a row that a member of the Orange took home the award, after Martin Hehir earned the honor in 2014.
Knight was the leader for the Orange which took third at the NCAA Championship, the program's second-best finish since 1954 behind last year's national championship, with the Vaughan, Ontario native taking second overall which tied Ray Osterhaut (1952) for the best individual finish in program history.
With one season of eligibility remaining and the only runner in the top-four of the NCAA Championships returning next season, Knight has the potential to be just the third runner in Syracuse history, and first since 1954, to finish in the top-10 three times in his career and could join Osterhaut as the only other competitor to have all-three finishes be in the top-four.
Majoring in social work at the David B. Falk College, Knight is the first member of the Orange to win four individual meets in the same season since Jim O'Connell in 1982. Including indoor and outdoor track, Knight has earned All-America accolades in five-straight seasons.
Fox took another step in cementing his program's return to being one of the sport's elite destinations for student-athletes this season by following up the 2015 NCAA title with a third-place finish at nationals this season. Under his tutelage, three members of the Orange earned USTFCCCA All-America honors, with Colin Bennie (two-time recipient) and Joel Hubbard joining Knight in receiving the honor.
The 2015 National Coach of the Year, he also led the Orange to once again be a dominant force on the east coast this season, picking up his 10th NCAA Northeast Regional Championship between the men's and women's programs this season, with six members of the Orange earning USTFCCCA All-Region honors (Knight, Bennie, Hubbard, Iliass Aouani, Philo Germano and Adam Visokay). That performance came two weeks after Syracuse posted its lowest point total ever in any of their conference championship meets, cruising to a dominant, fifth-straight conference championship. In that meet, seven members of the Orange earned All-ACC honors (Knight, Bennie, Hubbard, Germano, Aouani, Visokay and Kevin James).
With five members of Syracuse's seven-man NCAA Championship roster returning in 2017, Fox is primed to continue the Orange's success at the national level.
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