Giannino defeated 284 other runners to claim the 2014 NCAA Atlantic Regional Championship, held on a sunny, cool, Saturday morning at nearby Genesee Valley Park. He is RIT's first Atlantic Regional winner since the format was changed from New York to Atlantic in 1997. Giannino blazed the 8,000-meter course in a snappy time of 25:08.7, defeating second place finisher Sebastian Oja of NYU by just under three seconds, finishing with a mile rate of 5:04. Giannino was 23rd after the 2,000-meter split and jumped to 13th at the 4,000-meter split. Giannino began his big kick soon after, vaulting to third at the 6,000-meter split and unleashed an incredible of time of 6:08.2 over the final 2,000-meters to take the lead and win the race, his fifth of the season. He became the first RIT runner to win a regional event since Tony Fraij won the final New York Regional in 1996. A RIT runner won five straight New York State Regionals from 1992-1996.
