Rice University
Pre-National Meet
Owls Place 22nd at Pre-National Meet
10/17/2009 12:00:00 AM | Women's Cross Country
Oct. 17, 2009
Complete Results - Blue Race in PDF Format 
Terre Haute, Ind. -- The Rice women's cross country team placed 22nd at the Pre-National Meet (Blue Race) held at the LaVern Gibson Championship Cross Country Course at the Wabash Valley Family Sports Center and hosted by Indiana State University. A total of 147 teams including eight of the top 10 nationally ranked men's teams and seven of the top 10 nationally ranked women's teams competed today.
The Owls totaled 545 points and were led by Halsey Fowler. Fowler placed 81st with a time of 21:55.0, while Heather Olson was 94th (22:01.6).
In one of the biggest and most prestigious cross country meets in the nation, head coach Jim Bevan brought a young and inexperienced squad to Terre Haute, Ind.
"I felt like we competed exceedingly wel at the biggest race in the nation, commented Bevan. "We were running seven athletes that had never been to this meet and six who have not run a six kilometer course. Halsey Fowler had the best cross country race of her life as did Johanna Ohm. We chose to compete her with the best to help prepare our team for conference and regional meets along with giving them some seasoning for the future."
Colorado's Jenny Barringer captured her third straight Pre-National individual championship, leading the Buffaloes to the team win in the Women's 6,000 Meter Blue race with a time of 19:50.9. Colorado, ranked 19th nationally, won the team title with 94 points with 11th ranked Florida State second with 135 points. Fourth ranked Oregon placed third (169 points) with 13th ranked Georgetown fourth (200 points), and sixth ranked Stanford fifth (206 points).
Florida State's Susan Kuijken finished second in the individual race with a time of 20:20.8 with Oregon's Jordan Hasay third (20:33.0), UTEP's Risper Kimaiyo fourth (20:33.9), and Western Kentucky's Janet Jesang fifth (20:34.5).
22. Rice - 545
81 Halsey Fowler 21:55.0
94 Heather Olson 22:01.6
102 Marie Thompson 22:05.9
112 Johanna Ohm 22:12.3
175 Katherine Zebrowski 22:56.3
187 Claire Shorall 23:07.8
194 Michaela Reynolds 23:15.7
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