Matt Giannino

Matt Giannino

  • Award
    Performer
  • Week Of
    10/20/2014
  • Sport
    Men's Cross Country
  • School
    Rochester Institute of Technology
  • Year
    Senior
  • Position
  • Hometown
    Syracuse, N.Y.
  • High School
    Christian Brothers Academy
RIT senior Matt Giannino finished first out of 279 runners, as the RIT men's cross country team placed 15th overall out of 34 teams at the Oberlin Inter-Regional Rumble on Saturday morning. Giannino continued his incredible start to the season, finishing the 8,000-meter course in a time of 25:17.2. He had a mile rate of 5:06 in defeating 278 other runners. Giannino defeated second place Nathan Rosenberg of Ohio Northern by nearly 11 seconds to win for the third time this season.