From the NYU website:
NYU’s bid to successfully defend its championship ended almost before it began, as three Violet runners (senior Mark Hess, junior Calvin Lee, sophomore Matt Turlip), were all involved in a multi-runner spill soon after the race had begun.
“It was a very tight first turn and a lot of runners wound up pushing into each other and falling,” Schneider [who lost a shoe at ~2000m] revealed. “Someone right next to me fell, and I was fortunate to escape that jam.”
Violets’ junior Zach Maher, who managed to avoid the pile-up and keep both shoes on, took All-America honors with a 34th-place finish (24:59.55).
Hess wound up in 144th place (25:51.23), sophomore Sebastian Schwelm took 156th (25:55.26), Turlip was 204th (26:13.86), and freshman Jack Fitzhenry was 261st (26:45.81).
[Lee,] who injured his left heel in the fall, did not finish the race.