Richy Bikko opened the 2010 cross country season right where he left off in 2009 - by beating everyone in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference not named Ricky Flynn. Bikko took second at the 2009 ODAC Championships to Lynchburg's Flynn, and took 108th at the national meet as Flynn took gold. Flynn has since graduated, and Bikko showed he might be the cream of the ODAC crop in 2010 by taking first place at Wednesday's Randolph College Invitational. (Sep 1) [More] [Meet Results]

The Old Dominion Athletic Conference Cross Country Preseason Polls were released today and the Eastern Mennonite University teams were both left with room to move up by the season's end. The men's team was voted seventh out of ten ODAC schools while the Lady Royals were voted seventh out of nine. (Sep 1) [More] [Season Schedule]

When Eastern Mennonite University junior Richy Bikko (Nairobi, Kenya/Harrisonburg) went to the national meet in his first year running cross country, it was a surprise. To everyone except his first-year head coach, Matt Dougherty, that is. (May 6) [More]

Eastern Mennonite University has announced the resignation of cross country and track & field coach, Matt Dougherty, effective at the end of May. Dougherty was hired last summer as EMU's first combined head coach of the two sports, but he and his wife/assistant coach, Mary, are resigning with plans to move closer to their families. (Apr 29) [More]

In a way, Richy Bikko is still just getting his feet wet. The Eastern Mennonite junior ran his first cross country season this year for first-year Head Coach Matt Doughtery, and Bikko stunned his way to the 2009 Div. III Cross Country Nationals in Cleveland, Oh., on Saturday, Nov. 21. Bikko then ran his personal record at the national meet, giving him 108th overall out of 276 runners. (Nov 21) [More]