CHICAGO – Finishing first in three separate events at the 2013 Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference Outdoor Track & Field Championships on April 20, sophomore John Stancato (Manhattan, Ill./Lincoln-Way Central) of the men's track and field team was selected as the World Hyundai-Saint Xavier April Athlete of the Month when the honor was announced Wednesday.  Stancato, a biology (pre-medicine) major at SXU, also set a new conference record with a time of 10.99 seconds in the 100-meter dash at the conference meet in addition to winning the 200-meter dash (22.58 seconds) and anchoring the conference champion 4x400 meter relay team.  He was the highest individual point scorer at the CCAC Championships accounting for 38 of SXU's points at the meet.

Joliet, Ill. – Highlighted by a pair of first-place finishes by sophomore John Stancato (Manhattan, Ill./Lincoln-Way Central), the Saint Xavier University men's track team finished fourth overall at the third annual Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference (CCAC) Championships held at Memorial Stadium this past Saturday in Joliet, Ill.  The Cougars claimed the No. 4 spot in the eight-team meet with 78 points.  Stancato blazed his way to the top spot in the 100-meter and 200-meter dashes, winning the shorter sprint in a conference record time of 10.99 seconds and coming back in the 200 with a winning time of 22.58 seconds.  Amazingly, Stancato's day was far from complete.  He also finished second in the javelin throw (40.71m), third overall in the pole vault (3.20m), anchored the third-place 4x100 meter relay team (44.74) and then finished the day by anchoring the conference champion 4x400 relay team (3:28.03).

CHICAGO - The Saint Xavier University men's track team had a busy weekend splitting the team over two meets with one group participating at the Grand Valley State University Tune-Up in Allendale, Mich., last Friday and the rest of the squad heading to University of Chicago's Margaret Bradley Classic Saturday.  The Cougar runners had resounding success qualifying two individual runners for the 2013 NAIA Indoor Track & Field National Championships and achieving season-best times for three of the runners. Friday's highlights included junior Shane Kenney (Porter, Ind./Chesterton) qualifying in the 800-meter run with an outstanding time 1:56.51 besting the NAIA qualifying mark of 1:56.65, while junior Brian Corcoran (Chicago, Ill./Brother Rice) added to his qualifying list by running a national qualifying time of 4:21.8 in the mile run.  Sophomore John Stancato (Manhattan, Ill./Lincoln-Way Central) notched a solid 22.57 in the 200-meter dash as well.