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Villanova's Bridget Akard. |
Marquette's Shannon Oster leads Baylor's Brittany McGuire and Colorado's Laura Zeigle. |
Baylor's McGuire and Colorado's Zeigle. |
Tennessee's Rolanda Bell and Notre Dame's Katie DeRusso. |
Georgetown's Sabine Knothe leads Villanova's Casey Nelson, and Arkansas' Jessie Gordon. |
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Georgia teammates Rebekah Madebach (left) and Nicole DeMarco lead Michigan State's Emily Adama. |
Virginia's Jennifer Dolson leads Butler's Maria Beitel. |
Beitel is a junior at Butler, which is located nearby in Indianapolis. |
Virginia's Janine Ricci. |
Ricci is a sophomore at Virginia. |
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Shortly after the halfway point, Johanna Nilsson and Arianna Lambie reportedly pushed the pace and pulled away from the field. |
Nilsson kept the hammer down and managed to put quite a bit of distance between herself and the second place runner. |
The Northern Arizona University (NAU) junior also won the 2002 NCAA Indoor mile title. |
This was her first NCAA cross country title, though, and she crossed the finish line in 19:33.9... |
...a new course record for the 6K layout. |
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Nilsson's older sister, Ida, who also ran for NAU, won two NCAA titles on the track. |
After finishing third a year ago, Columbia's Caroline Bierbaum moved up one spot to finish second. |
Bierbaum, a senior at Columbia University in New York City, finished second in 19:46.0. |
Bierbaum was the Heptagonal champion and had finished a very close second to Victoria Mitchell at the Pre-NCAA meet in October. |
Bierbaum is originally from New York City but she attended private school in Massachusetts. |
