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Ejegayehu Dibaba laps Zoila Gomez. |
Tirunesh Dibaba with one lap to go. |
Sara Slattery moves out into lane two to avoid blocking Dibaba at the finish. |
Tirunesh Dibaba broke the tape in 14:35.46, a time that is second only to her own world record. |
Missy Buttry. |
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Canada's Jennifer Biewald gets ready for the junior mile. |
L-R: Jackie Areson from Florida, Samantha Gawrych from Rhode Island, Lindsay Carson from Canada, and Kara McKenna from New York. |
Nicole Blood of Saratoga Springs, New York, who will attend the University of Oregon next year. |
Aislinn Ryan, a senior at Warwick Valley High School in New York, will attend the University of Colorado next fall. |
Areson and Gawrych (whose name is spelled wrong on her bib) at the start of the race. |
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On the first lap, L-R: Nicole Blood, Lindsay Ferguson, Samantha Gawrych, and Kara McKenna. |
Hannah Davidson (one of three girls from Saratoga Springs High School in this race) leads Lindsay Carson, Jennifer Biewald, and Aislinn Ryan. |
Lindsay Ferguson leads Nicole Blood, who had the fastest high school time in the country heading into this race. |
The pace in the early laps wasn't particularly fast, which led to a tightly-bunched pack. |
Nicole Blood and Kara McKenna run next to each other. |
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Gawrych, McKenna, and Ryan. Five out of the nine runners in this field, and five out of the seven from the U.S. were from New York. |
Around halfway, Blood took over the race and pushed the pace, which finally spread things out. |
Kara McKenna and Samantha Gawrych. |
Hannah Davidson, a sophomore at Saratoga Springs High School, runs in the back of the pack. |
Nicole Blood puts some distance on the field. |
