Sydney Packard of Georgetown, Mass., Earns Spot on WPI Cross Country Team

2017 Aug 30

First-year WPI Cross Country head coach Brian Chabot, who will enter his 10th season as the head of the Track & Field program, has revealed the 2017 Men's and Women's Cross Country rosters which includes Sydney Packard.

The Engineers, who begin competition on September 16 at Bowdoin, are in action locally a week later at the Worcester City Championships.

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