Teams: Women's Cross Country: Schedule & Results

THREE JUMBOS IN TOP 10 AT REGIONAL, EARN NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP RACE BERTHS

COLLEGE WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY RESULTS
NCAA Northeast Region Championship
Saturday, November 10, 2007
At Waterford, CT

Race Results

Stephanie McNamara was ninth in her first NCAA Regional race

WATERFORD, Conn. -- Three members of the Tufts women's cross country team placed among the top 10 at the NCAA Northeast Region Championship hosted by Connecticut College on Saturday. The trio will represent the Jumbos at the NCAA Championship Race hosted next Saturday (Nov. 17) by St. Olaf College in Minnesota. Tufts finished sixth as a team at the Regional and did not earn a national berth.

Senior tri-captain Catherine Beck (Brookline, NH) was the first Jumbo finisher of six kilometers with a time of 21 minutes, 34.9 seconds on Saturday. She was followed by classmate and fellow tri-captain Katy O'Brien (North Easton, MA), who finished fifth at the Regional with a 21:43.1 time. In her first NCAA Regional experience, first-year Stephanie McNamara (North Attleborough, MA) was spectacular with a 22:02.7 finish for ninth place overall. The Tufts trio earned their national berths individually by finishing among the top seven runners at the Regional who were not associated with teams that qualified. Beck and O'Brien will both make their third NCAA Championship appearances, though first individually.

Also at the Regional for Coach Kristen Morwick's team, first-year Amy Wilfert (Westborough, MA) was 80th overall with a 23:30.1 time and junior Amy Hopkins (Williston, VT) was 83rd (23:30.6).

Tufts scored 179 points, 10 behind fifth-place Middlebury. Amherst won the Regional title with 40 points. Jennifer Adams of Keene State College was the individual champion with a time of 21:20.1.

Tufts has now qualified as a team or with individuals for every NCAA Championship Race since the 2003 season.

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