Benjamin Fazio of East Greenwich on RPI's Cross Country Team

2016 Sep 13

Benjamin Fazio of East Greenwich 02818 is a member of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) cross country team. The Materials Engineering major has helped the Engineers to a strong start through the first two weeks of the season, including a win at Siena College and a runner-up finish on Saturday.

For specific information about Benjamin, please visit the team's roster page at http://rpiathletics.com/roster.aspx?path=mcross and click on his name. For the team's current schedule with results, visit http://rpiathletics.com/schedule.aspx?path=mcross&.

For photographs of Benjamin, either action pictures (if available) or a head shot, please contact Kevin Beattie at beattk@rpi.edu or 518-276-2187.

RPI, which is coached by John Lynch, is coming off a season in which it had five top three finishes. The Engineers travel to Williams College on September 24 for the Purple Valley Classic.

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As it approaches its bicentennial anniversary, the Institute continues to define The New Polytechnic, a new paradigm for teaching, learning, and research that uses advanced technologies to enable fresh collaborations across disciplines, sectors, and regions, in order to answer the global challenges of our day.