The United East Conference announced their Men's and Women's Cross Country All-Conference and Major Awards for the 2026 season last week, with Lancaster Bible landing five total student-athletes on the All-Conference list at the Championship meets on Saturday, October 31. For the Men's team, David Helms (Sr.) led the way as he finished second overall for an All-Conference First Team finish, with Matthew McKinney (Fr.) and Ethan Dell (Sr.) each finishing on the All-Conference Second Team. For the Women's team, Seana Dougherty (Jr.) and Cadee Cameron (Jr.) each earned All-Conference First Team honors for the second straight year to lead the way for the Chargers.
 
David Helms – MXC All-Conference 1st Team
Helms finished as the Individual Runner-Up at the United East Championship for the second straight year, earning his 2nd-Place finish by running a time of 25:26.0. David set a new personal record in the 8K race and is now the second-fastest time at the United East Championship meet since 2023. This was the third consecutive First Team finish for Helms.
 
Matthew McKinney – MXC All-Conference 2nd Team
McKinney put together a great race for his first United East Championship, rounding out the top-15 for the meet as he took 15th-Place overall with a time of 28:01.5. Matthew became the first LBC freshman to earn All-Conference honors since 2023 and was about 16 seconds behind his personal-best this season.
 
Ethan Dell – MXC All-Conference 2nd Team
Dell was directly behind McKinney at the end of the race and finished half a second after, crossing at a time of 28:02.0 for 16th-Place overall. Ethan squeezed onto the Second Team list by just a tenth of a second, beating out Cairn's Joey Swaim for the final spot and securing his first career All-Conference finish in Cross Country.

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Seana Dougherty – WXC All-Conference 1st Team
Dougherty earned her third straight All-Conference First Team finish at the United East Championship as she finished in 6th-Place overall. With a time of 24:22.2, Seana set a season-best time for 2026 and was just 19 seconds out of the top-5 finishers for the day, marking her best finish at the United East Championship in her three top-6 finishes.
 
Cadee Cameron – WXC All-Conference 1st Team
Cameron earned her second consecutive All-Conference First Team finish at the Championship meet, finishing 7th overall with a time of 24:49.1 to follow Dougherty for back-to-back LBC finishers. Cadee finished four seconds behind her season-best time and beat her time from last year's conference championship by ten seconds as well.
 
Conference Major Awards
On the Men's side, Gallaudet's Sevan Ikeda captured Runner of the Year honors after claiming the top spot with a time of 25:14.8 for back-to-back Individual titles, Adrian Maldonado from Penn St. Berks earned Rookie of the Year honors after placing fifth at 25:35.5, and Penn St. Berks earned Coaching Staff of the Year led by head coach Ryan Foster. Penn St. Berks won the Team title at 50 team points, followed by St. Mary's (Md.) in second place at 65 points while the Chargers took third place overall with 96 team points.
 
On the Women's side, Cedar Crest's Ryley Schwalm won the Individual title after setting a new United East Championship record with a time of 22:11.4 for Runner of the Year, Madelyn Holbrook earned Rookie of the Year after a 5th-Place finish with a time of 24:03.0, and St. Mary's (Md.) won Coaching Staff of the Year led by head coach Reava Potter. The Seahawks claimed the Team title with 62 team points with Cedar Crest narrowly finishing second at 63 points, then it was Penn St. Harrisburg in third with 83 points while Lancaster Bible landed in fourth for the meet with 108 team points.

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 To view the full United East All-Conference releases, click the links here for Men's Cross Country and Women's Cross Country.