Teams: Women's Track & Field: Schedule & Results

COLLEGE WOMEN'S OUTDOOR TRACK & FIELD RESULTS
Penn Relays
Thursday, April 24, 2008
At Philadelphia, PA

Senior co-captain Cat Beck stopped in at the Penn Relays to run a 16:42 5K

PHILADELPHIA -- All-American Cat Beck (Brookline, NH) continued her outstanding senior season for the Tufts women's track team by traveling south for more than 300 miles and seven hours through traffic on Thursday to the Penn Relays. Competing in the 5,000 meters at 8:25 in the evening, about an hour after she arrived, Beck ran a school record and NCAA automatic qualifying time of 16:41.97.

Held at legendary Franklin Field on the University of Pennsylvania campus, the Penn Relays are the nation's oldest and largest relay carnival. Running in a very competitive field as the only Division III entrant, Beck finished sixth in the college women's 5K. She was more than 13 seconds faster than the NCAA automatic time of 16:55, and it is the nation's fastest time in the event for Division III entering the weekend.

In the Tufts record book, she improves her own 5K mark from the 16:51.04 set in 2006. Arriving back at Tufts on Friday morning, Beck will travel with the team to Hamilton College later in the day for the 2008 NESCAC Championships in Clinton, New York on Saturday.

Beck also has NCAA provisional qualifying marks in the 800 meters and the 1,500 meters. She ran a 2:11.52 800 at Northeastern on April 12, just .02 of a second off the NCAA automatic time. Her 1,500 time of 4:37.81 was at home in the Snowflake Classic on March 29.  

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