Nov. 21, 2009
Complete Results
Cleveland, OH - The Johns Hopkins women's cross country team finished seventh at the NCAA Championships hosted by Baldwin-Wallace College. This is the best finish in Hopkins history and an improvement of six spots from last year's 13th place finish. Johns Hopkins finished with a total of 306 points.
Wisconsin-Eau Claire won the 2009 NCAA Title with 171 points. Saint Lawrence, Calvin, Middlebury, and MIT rounded out the top five. Whitworth finished sixth, edging out Johns Hopkins with 291 points.
All five of Hopkins' scoring running finished within one minute of each other. Seniors Laura Paulsen and Mira Patel led the Blue Jays. Paulsen (23:09.1) finished 37th overall and Patel (23:14.7) finished just five spots later at 42nd.
Sophomore Cecilia Furlong (23:30.8) finished 57th, which is more than 100 spots higher than her 2008 finish at the NCAA Championships. Freshman Liz Provost (23:37.8) ran a strong race at her first NCAA Championships finishing 65th overall. Senior Nadia McMillan (24:02.9) rounded out the scoring group finishing 105th.
Coach Bobby Van Allen said this about the team's performance at the NCAA Championships: "Our girls showed a lot of heart out there today. I'm very proud with how they ran despite some key injuries and illness late in our season. Many of the seniors on our team didn't even qualify for nationals their freshman year and now we moved up from 29th to 13th to now 7th in the nation in their time here. They've done so much for our program, and we're excited to continue to move this program forward."
The seventh-place finish is the best finish in Hopkins' history.
