Mt. Pleasant, SC – Senior Becky Celorio recorded the second-best 6K time in school history to place 11th and lead the Hofstra Women's Cross Country team to a sixth-place finish at the 2015 Colonial Athletic Association Women's Cross Country Championship at Laurel Hill Plantation Saturday morning.

Celorio clocked a time of 21:21, just 10 seconds from Mary Sullivan's 2005 6K mark of 21:11, set at the CAA Championships at UNCW. Her 11th-place finish also earned her All-CAA honors for the first time in her career. She led the team for the third time this season and the 22nd time in 25 meets in her career.

Hofstra's sixth-place finish with 163 points is the Pride's best conference finish since finishing in a three-way tie for fifth place with 163 points at the 2005 CAA Championship at UNCW. The Tribe of William and Mary, who placed four of their five scoring runners in the top five, captured their fourth consecutive CAA title and the 11th in the past 13 years with 23 points. James Madison was second with 54 points and Elon was third with 66 points. Host Charleston was fourth with 125 points with Delaware (153) fifth, Northeastern (173) seventh, Towson (210) eighth and UNCW (260) ninth. William and Mary's Emily Stites was the individual champion in a conference-record 20:00.2.

In addition to Celorio, Hofstra freshman Felicia Banda was the Pride's second finisher, placing 19th in 21:56. Graduate-student Angelica Peck was the third Hofstra runner, finishing 21st in 21:58. Freshman Mahlah Givehand placed 71st for the Pride in 23:55 while sophomore Emily McLean was 73rd in 23:58. Freshman Alli Bacher placed 76th in 24:03 and junior Amanda Sullivan held down the last placement spot, coming in 77th in 24:07. Sophomore Megan Tidey completed the Pride line-up with an 86th-place finish in 25:31.

Hofstra will compete next in the NCAA Division I Northeast Regional at Franklin Park in Boston on Friday, November 13.