Mitch Iszkula of the men's lacrosse team and Maddy McDonald of the women's cross country team are the Pita Pit Athletes of the Week for the week of October 7-13.

Maddy McDonald reached the podium, and both McMaster teams finished third, as the Marauder cross country teams fielded their strongest units of the season at the AUS-RSEQ Interlock on Saturday.

The McMaster men's volleyball team debuted at no. 3 in this week's CIS top ten poll, while the men's soccer (5), men's cross country (6), women's cross country (6) and women's rugby (10) teams remained ranked.

The men's cross country team is ranked fifth, the women's cross country team sixth, men's soccer sixth and women's rugby ninth in the newest CIS top ten polls.

The Marauder men's and women's cross country teams have both been ranked to open the 2013 season, placing fifth and sixth respectively in the sport's first top ten poll.

Lionel Sanders and Maddy McDonald returned as the Marauder cross country teams competed at the Vic Matthews Open in Guelph on Saturday.

Courtney Patterson headlined McMaster's first competition of the cross country season, finishing third in the women's five-kilometre race at the Western International meet on September 21.

McMaster University launches the Official App of the McMaster Marauders

It is called THE McMASTER WAY and is the end result of a process that has seen the Department of Athletics and Recreation define its mission and the core values that drive that mission.

Already the winner of this year's Dr. Mary Keyes Award and Therese A. Quigley Award, graduand and Marauder cross-country/track star Victoria Coates was recognized with three more honours at her Convocation on June 14.