From University of Rochester Athletics
Junior Catherine Knox turned in a career best performance for
the University of Rochester women's cross country team, earning
10th place at the NCAA Division III Atlantic Regional Cross Country
Championships on Saturday at Genesee Valley Park.
St. Lawrence narrowly edged SUNY Geneseo for the team title,
winning by just one point 50 to 51. Oneonta St. was 3rd with
120, SUNY Cortland 4th (189) and Ithaca (210) rounded out the top
five.
Knox was 10th of 272 runners and guarantees her spot into the NCAA
Division III Championships next week in Mason, Ohio. She
earned that spot by virtue of her being the 3rd runner from a
non-NCAA qualifying team (SLU and Geneseo). The junior
posted a personal best 6k time of 21:58.6.
The second UR runner was junior Anya Joynt who posted a time of
23:10.4, good for 54th place. Senior Alyssa Arre ran a
personal best time of 23:17.3 in a 58th place run as the 3rd UR
finisher.
Brianna Loughran was 63rd following her time of 23:31.3. She
was joined by senior Jennifer Klemenz in 110th (24:06.0) to round
out the Yellowjacket scoring.
UR's displacers in the race were senior Kathryn Woodworth (24:18.6,
124th) and sophomore Audrey McCarthy (25:42.9, 186th).
The overall race winner was Stevens' Amy Regan who was a runaway
winner in 21:05.8. She was over 21 seconds clear of the
second place finisher.