Cross Country

Mangini Named Landmark Conference Men's Cross Country Senior Scholar-Athlete

TOWSON, Md. - The Landmark Conference selects 23 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, athletic communications, and diversity, ethnicity, and inclusion designee.

Moravian University’s Josh Mangini has been recognized as the Landmark Conference Men's Cross Country Senior Scholar-Athlete. He is the third Greyhound to be selected, joining Aaron Hofmann (2018) and Shane Houghton (2022).

This fall, Mangini earned Landmark All-Conference First Team honors with a seventh-place finish at the 2024 Landmark Conference Championships on November 2 as he helped the Greyhounds capture their fourth straight and sixth overall Landmark Conference Team Championship. Mangini garnered All-Metro Region honors on November 16 as he placed 28th of 186 runners to help the program win its first Metro Regional title.

On November 23, Mangini placed 214th of 294 runners at the NCAA Division III National Championships in Terre Haute, Indiana where the Hounds finished 22nd of 32 teams in the program’s first appearance as a team in the championship meet.

Mangini is a three-time Landmark All-Conference runner, making the First Team in 2022 (third) and 2024 (seventh) and the Second Team in 2023 (tenth). Mangini was also a member of the All-Metro Region squad three times, finishing in the top 35 of the regional in 2022 (16th), 2023 (21st) and 2024 (28th). Mangini’s career-best 8,000-meter time of 25:37.8 at the Rowan University Border Battle in 2023.

Off the cross country course, Mangini has made Moravian’s Dean’s Honors List six times as well as being a member of the Chi Alpha Sigma National College Athlete Honor Society. He will be a 12-time member of the Landmark Conference Academic Honor Roll. Mangini, who is a graduate student, is working towards his MBA in data analytics after graduating from Moravian with a bachelor’s degree in business administration last May with a 3.65 grade point average.

He was selected to the 2022 and 2023 United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) All-Academic Team for Cross Country as well as the 2023 and 2024 College Sports Communicators Academic (CSC) All-District for Track & Field and Cross Country. Mangini is also a member of the Amhrein Investment Club at Moravian.

Complete Senior Scholar-Athlete History