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No Regrets: Mahoney Closes Out Running Career At Temple With NCAA All-American Honors
11.17.12 | Men's Cross Country
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LOUISVILLE, Kent.— For the second time in a calendar year, redshirt senior Travis Mahoney has once again been named an NCAA All-American. Closing out his illustrious five-year running career at Temple University, Mahoney capped it at the pinnacle by becoming the first Owl ever to be dealt the honors in cross country. The Old Bridge, Pa. native ran the 10K course at Saturday's NCAA Championships in 29:58.6 to place 37th overall.
Mahoney is the first Temple runner to be named a national All-American in both track and field and cross country. Back in May, Mahoney ran the steeplechase at the NCAA Track & Field Championships in the fifth-fastest to time to earn the title of First Team All-American, making him TU's first individual to ever earn that status in the sport.
"This is so big. This is everything I worked for," Mahoney said. "I will never look back and be disappointed. I came back and accomplished every goal I wanted. I will always be satisfied."
"He closed out a career the best way that one possibly can," head coach Eric Mobley said. "Not many people have the opportunity to do what Travis has done during this season—going through and winning conference meets and now to be named an All-American again. It's an outstanding finish to a final meet and career."
Last season, Mahoney redshirted the cross country season in order to primarily focus on getting back to the NCAA Championships performing in the steeplechase at the U.S. Olympic Trials.
"I came back for this fifth year with three goals in mind: win the A-10 title, win the [NCAA Mid-Atlantic} regional and be named an All-American," Mahoney said. "To be able to sit here and take in that I have done all of those things, I couldn't be happier."
Going up against the nation and even the world's top athletes, Mahoney felt privileged to be part of this meet. In what is deemed the most difficult national championship among all sports to qualify for, Mahoney secured his slot back on Nov. 9 by running the 10K course at Penn State in a first place time at the Mid-Atlantic Regional, setting him up to run against 31 teams and 37 other individual qualifiers.
"Having the chance to qualify to run at the hardest races you can ever run and to walk away an All-American, I feel completely satisfied to close out my career here and leave my mark at Temple University," Mahoney commented.
At the start of the season, Mobley hired Adam Bray as his assistant coach, who does most of the overseeing of the cross country program. With Mahoney getting ready to make a pursuit at what he set out for himself, he also had to adjust to a new mentor and trainer.
"He was already really good before I got here," Bray said. "Coming here and knowing that, I just didn't want to mess him up or his routines, which obviously proved to be working for him. I worked with him in discussing meet plans and how to go about training for each race. All credit goes to him. He's the one the goes out there and runs the races. What he did out there today, is extraordinary and I'm proud of him."
For Mahoney, the book to his five-year career as a runner at Temple comes to a close. In short, the track and field/cross country performer ends with a total of seven Atlantic 10 Conference individual championships, three A-10 Outstanding Performer of the Year awards, a Mid-Atlantic Athlete of the Year recognition and now, three NCAA All-American titles.
LOUISVILLE, Kent.— For the second time in a calendar year, redshirt senior Travis Mahoney has once again been named an NCAA All-American. Closing out his illustrious five-year running career at Temple University, Mahoney capped it at the pinnacle by becoming the first Owl ever to be dealt the honors in cross country. The Old Bridge, Pa. native ran the 10K course at Saturday's NCAA Championships in 29:58.6 to place 37th overall.
Mahoney is the first Temple runner to be named a national All-American in both track and field and cross country. Back in May, Mahoney ran the steeplechase at the NCAA Track & Field Championships in the fifth-fastest to time to earn the title of First Team All-American, making him TU's first individual to ever earn that status in the sport.
"This is so big. This is everything I worked for," Mahoney said. "I will never look back and be disappointed. I came back and accomplished every goal I wanted. I will always be satisfied."
"He closed out a career the best way that one possibly can," head coach Eric Mobley said. "Not many people have the opportunity to do what Travis has done during this season—going through and winning conference meets and now to be named an All-American again. It's an outstanding finish to a final meet and career."
Last season, Mahoney redshirted the cross country season in order to primarily focus on getting back to the NCAA Championships performing in the steeplechase at the U.S. Olympic Trials.
"I came back for this fifth year with three goals in mind: win the A-10 title, win the [NCAA Mid-Atlantic} regional and be named an All-American," Mahoney said. "To be able to sit here and take in that I have done all of those things, I couldn't be happier."
Going up against the nation and even the world's top athletes, Mahoney felt privileged to be part of this meet. In what is deemed the most difficult national championship among all sports to qualify for, Mahoney secured his slot back on Nov. 9 by running the 10K course at Penn State in a first place time at the Mid-Atlantic Regional, setting him up to run against 31 teams and 37 other individual qualifiers.
"Having the chance to qualify to run at the hardest races you can ever run and to walk away an All-American, I feel completely satisfied to close out my career here and leave my mark at Temple University," Mahoney commented.
At the start of the season, Mobley hired Adam Bray as his assistant coach, who does most of the overseeing of the cross country program. With Mahoney getting ready to make a pursuit at what he set out for himself, he also had to adjust to a new mentor and trainer.
"He was already really good before I got here," Bray said. "Coming here and knowing that, I just didn't want to mess him up or his routines, which obviously proved to be working for him. I worked with him in discussing meet plans and how to go about training for each race. All credit goes to him. He's the one the goes out there and runs the races. What he did out there today, is extraordinary and I'm proud of him."
For Mahoney, the book to his five-year career as a runner at Temple comes to a close. In short, the track and field/cross country performer ends with a total of seven Atlantic 10 Conference individual championships, three A-10 Outstanding Performer of the Year awards, a Mid-Atlantic Athlete of the Year recognition and now, three NCAA All-American titles.
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