Boys Cross Country

East Canton Boys Cross Country Team History

The program was started by Coach Lee Sternberg in the autumn of 1973. Coach Sternberg has been the only head coach of the East Canton High School Boys. The Program has complied an amazing record. These team have won 24 League/Conference Titles; 2 overall Stark County Titles; 27 District Championships; 11 Regional Titles; 3 State Runner-up finished and 4 State Championship Titles.

Individually, four runners have finished as State Runner-up. Mike Dorto was second in both 1985 and 1987. Nicholas Dysle was 2nd in 2006; Gabe Henning was 2nd in 2008 and Demetrius Snellenberger finished 2nd in 2018 and again in 2019. In 2019, Demetrius set the current school record of 15:44 for 5000 meters, during the State meet at National Trail Raceway. There have been numerous other "All-Ohio" Cross Country athletes and many more State qualifiers for the Hornet Pac-Men. Many others have been named "All League/ Conference and "All Stark County" for their efforts on the many courses throughout the State of Ohio.

Through the years, the program has been associated with 4 conferences. From 1976-1988 East Canton was part of the Senate League; 1989 to 2004 the team competed in the Principal's Athletic Conference (P.A.C. 7). In 2005 the "Pac-Men" joined the Portage Trail Conference (P.T.C.) and was there until 2012. This year 2021, is the 9th year that East Canton has competed in the Inter-Valley Conference (I.V.C.) East Canton won their 1st I.V.C. Championship in 2015 and again in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021

2020 State Cross Country Champions!

State Meet Results

1982-2021
1982-11th 1984-6th 1985-3rd 1986-4th 1987-2nd 1988-2nd 1991-4th	1992-9th 1993-8th 1995-4th 1996-3rd 1997-7th 1998-1st 1999-9th	2005-10th 2006-2nd 2008-5th 2017-1st 2018-3rd 2019-3rd 2020-1st 2021-1st

1982-2021

1982-11th

1984-6th

1985-3rd

1986-4th

1987-2nd

1988-2nd

1991-4th

1992-9th

1993-8th

1995-4th

1996-3rd

1997-7th

1998-1st

1999-9th

2005-10th

2006-2nd

2008-5th

2017-1st

2018-3rd

2019-3rd

2020-1st

2021-1st

Conference Championships & Finishes
1st Place Finishes Senate League- 1983, '84, '86, '87, '88 PAC- 1989, '90, '91, '92, '93, '95, '96, '97, '98, '99, '03, '04 IVC- 2015, '16, '17, '18, '19, '20. '21	2nd Place Finishes Senate League- 1977, '78, PAC- 2000, '02 PTC- 2005, '06, '07, '08, '09 IVC- 2014	3rd Place Finishes Senate League- 1979, '81, 82 PAC- 1994, '01 IVC- 2013	4th Place Finishes Senate League- 1976 PTC- 2010, '11, '12

Conference Championships & Finishes

1st Place Finishes

Senate League- 1983, '84, '86, '87, '88

PAC- 1989, '90, '91, '92, '93, '95, '96, '97, '98, '99, '03, '04

IVC- 2015, '16, '17, '18, '19, '20. '21

2nd Place Finishes

Senate League- 1977, '78,

PAC- 2000, '02

PTC- 2005, '06, '07, '08, '09

IVC- 2014

3rd Place Finishes

Senate League- 1979, '81, 82

PAC- 1994, '01

IVC- 2013

4th Place Finishes

Senate League- 1976

PTC- 2010, '11, '12

* There were no league meets in 1980 or 1985.

Senate League	Principle Athletic Conference	Portage Trail Conference	Inter Valley Conference
1976-4th	1989-1st	2005-2nd	2013-3rd
1977-2nd	1990-1st	2006-2nd	2014-2nd
1978-2nd	1991-1st	2007-2nd	2015-1st
1979-3rd	1992-1st	2008-2nd	2016-1st
1980-no meet	1993-1st	2009-2nd	2017-1st
1981-3rd	1994-3d	2010-4th	2018-1st
1982-3rd	1995-1st	2011-4th	2019-1st
1983-1st	1996-1st	2012-4th	2020-1st
1984-1st	1997-1st		2021-1st
1985-no meet	1998-1st
1986-1st	1999-1st
1987-1st	2000-2nd
1988-1st	2001-3rd
	2002-2nd
	2003-1st
	2004-1st