Klein Named AMCC Men's Cross Country Runner of the Year; Seven Earn All-Conference

ERIE, Pa. – Sophomore Kody Klein (North East, PA/Cathedral Prep) was named the 2022 Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference (AMCC) Runner of the Year while head coach Greg Cooper earned Coach of the Year honors, announced on Friday.

Noteworthy:

* This is the program's seventh overall Runner of the Year award and first since 2016
* Klein was the individual medalist at the AMCC Championship with a time of 27:10.2
* He also had a personal-best time of 26:44.9 at the Inter-Regional Rumble this season
* Cooper is earning his 11^th Coach of the Year accolades for leading Behrend to its 15^th overall championship and third in a row
* Joining Klein on the All-Conference Team were six teammates
* Nick Temel (Conneaut Lake, PA/Conneaut Area) and Aidan Domencic (Cranberry Township, PA/Seneca Valley) were third and fourth overall at the AMCC Championships to earn a spot on the All-AMCC Team
* Bennett Kerr (Murrysville, PA/Franklin Regional) took fifth, while Aidan Reinsel (North East, PA/North East) and Joey George (Leechburg, PA/Kiski) placed seventh and eighth, respectively to be named to the All-AMCC squad
* Christopher Annear (Fredonia, NY/Fredonia) rounds out the Top 10 for the meet and the All-Conference Team
* Klein, Temel, Domencic, Kerr, George and Annear are repeat runners on the All-AMCC list