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Ada Anderson blazed through the first lap and arrived at the 200m mark... |
...well ahead of everyone else. |
Lysaira Roman-Del Valle and Nicole Cook run in second and third. |
Approaching the 400m mark, Ada Anderson continues to set a fast pace. |
Akron senior Beata Rudzinska. |
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With a lap and a straightaway to go, the field makes up ground on Anderson. |
One lap to go. |
Nicole Cook runs in second place...and eventual heat winner Ashley Patten runs in seventh place. |
Missouri's Ashley Patten ran a great last 200 and won the second prelim in 2:05.70. |
Ada Anderson held on to finish second in 2:05.93. Nicole Cook stumbled and lost a lot of ground up the homestretch, and faded to last in 2:08.25. |
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All of the time qualifiers ended up coming out of this heat. Beata Rudzinska (2:06.12), Mable Kunihira (2:06.22)... |
...Morgan Uceny (2:06.66), and Lysaira Roman-Del Valle (2:06.68) all advanced. |
Defending champion Nicole Cook finished a non-advancing eighth in 2:08.25. |
Arianna Lambie, a redshirt freshman at Stanford, gets ready for the first of two mile prelims. |
L-R, at the start of the first mile prelim: Lambie, Mary Kamau, and Erin Donohue. |
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One lap into the race, L-R: Desiraye Osburn, Arianna Lambie, Erin Donohue, Kathleen Trotter, and Shannon Rowbury. |
The top three finishers in each prelim, plus the runners with the next four fastest times overall... |
...would advance to Saturday's final. |
University of Washington senior Lindsey Egerdahl. |
Arianna Lambie leads and Erin Donhue runs in second place. |
