MIDDLETOWN, N.Y. – Hannah Snayd won her third consecutive individual conference championship to lead Fairfield University Women's Cross Country to fifth place at the 2026 Metro Conference Championship. Snayd is only the second woman in conference history to win three straight individual titles.
Making her 2026 season debut for the Stags, Snayd broke the tape on the 6K course in 21:25.2 to beat the field by more than six seconds. Already the only individual champion in Fairfield Cross Country history, Snayd joins Iona's Egle Morenaite (2017-19) as the only three-time league champions in Metro/MAAC history.
Snayd was the first of 12 Stags to finish in the top half of the 158-runner field.
Mia Strazzella completed the course in 28th place,
Catherine Gobo finished 30th,
Carlina Castro placed 34th, and
Isabella Cardozo was 40th to round out the five scoring runners for Fairfield.
Caroline Cox added a 41st place finish,
Sophie Cheesman was 45th followed by
Avery Brennan in 46th,
Bridget Reidy in 51st,
Taylor Partridge in 56th,
Emma Preissman in 63rd, and
Ada Gebauer finishing 72nd.
Also competing for the Stags on Saturday were
Clare Lowther,
Callie DeDecko, and Michaels Kenny as Fairfield sent 15 runners to Blue Sky Sports Complex for the 2026 championship.
On the team ledger, the Stags placed fifth for the second consecutive season – matching their-best ever finish at the conference meet. Fairfield was comfortably ahead of sixth-place Sacred Heart by 43 points and sat only 12 points shy of Marist and Rider, who tied for third.
Iona won the 2026 Metro Conference Championship, led by second-place individual finisher Sofia Lumbreras and third-place performer Kiera Atkinson.
Fairfield Women's Cross Country continues its championship season in two weeks at the NCAA Northeast Regional Championship at Bethpage State Park in Farmingdale, N.Y. on Nov. 13.
