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

COLLEGE WOMEN'S OUTDOOR TRACK & FIELD RESULTS
NCAA Div. 3 Championships
Thursday-Saturday, May 22-24, 2008
At Oshkosh, WI

Meet Results

Nine-time All-American Cat Beck

OSHKOSH, Wisc. -- Tufts University senior co-captain Cat Beck (Brookline, NH) finished second in both the 1,500 meters and in the 5,000 meters at the 2008 NCAA Division 3 Women's Outdoor Track & Field Championships hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Thursday through Saturday. With the two All-American performances, Beck concluded her illustrious Jumbo career with nine total All-American awards (five outdoors, four indoors).

Beck ran a school-record time of 4:24.97 in the 1,500 meters on Saturday, but it wasn't quite fast enough to defeat Marcia Taddy of Wisconsin Platteville. She won the race with a 4:23.36 time. Beck broke her own Tufts record of 4:27.58 set last season. Tufts first-year Stephanie McNamara (North Attleborough, MA) was also an All-American in the 1,500, running 4:32.03 for eighth place. It is her second All-American honor of the season.

Tufts senior Katy O'Brien (North Easton, MA) was tenth in the 1,500-meter race (4:35.39). Beck and O'Brien had run the the two fastest times in the preliminaries of the 1,500-meter run on Thursday at 4:30.62 and 4:30.71, respectively.

Approximately two and a half hours after finishing the 1,500 meters on Saturday afternoon, Beck competed in the 5,000 meters and was second with a 16:54.54 time. That was two seconds behind national champion Becca Jordahl (16:52.49).

With 17 points scored, Tufts placed 17th at the meet. That's the third time in the last four NCAA Championships (indoors and outdoors) that Tufts has scored among the top 20 teams.

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