TOWSON, Md. - The Landmark Conference selects 22 senior scholar-athletes each year to recognize the top student-athlete in each sport based on academics and athletics.

The honorees must have a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.20 and are selected by a committee of Landmark Conference officers, athletics directors, senior woman administrators, faculty athletic representatives, and sports information directors.

Shane Houghton of Moravian University was selected as the 2022 Landmark Men's Cross Country Senior Scholar-Athlete. He is the second Greyhound to earn the honor, joining Aaron Hofmann (2019).

This fall, Houghton was named the Landmark Conference Men's Cross Country Performer of the Year and earned a spot on the Landmark All-Conference First Team after winning the 2022 Landmark Conference Individual title at Goucher College on October 29 as he helped the Greyhounds capture their second straight and fourth overall Landmark Conference Team Championship. Last weekend, Houghton earned NCAA Division III Metro All-Region honors for the second consecutive fall with a 15th place finish. In September, Houghton posted a personal-best time of 25:24.8 for 8,000-meters at the Paul Short Run hosted by Lehigh University. That time is the 12th fastest in school history and has Houghton as the fourth fastest Greyhound in program history.

In 2021, Houghton garnered Metro All-Region accolades with a sixth place, and he went on to run in the 2021 NCAA Division III National Championships in Terre Haute, Indiana. Prior to 2022, Houghton's best finish in a Landmark Conference cross country championship meet was a 40th place in 2019.

Off the cross country course, Houghton has made Moravian's Dean's Honors List seven times as well as being a member of the Chi Alpha Sigma National College Athlete Honor Society. He will be a seven-time member of the Landmark Conference Academic Honor Roll, and Houghton was honored as Moravian's Blue & Grey Senior Scholar-Athlete in 2021. Houghton, who is a fifth-year senior, is majoring in computer science and user interface design, and he also has a minor in mathematics with a 3.84 grade point average. Houghton was selected to the 2021 United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association All-Academic Team for Cross Country.

Additionally, Houghton has volunteered his time working with local elementary schools on track and field days at Moravian. 

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