NCAA INDOOR TRACK & FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, March 12-13, 2004
ALL PHOTOS ALISON WADE/NEW YORK ROAD RUNNERS

FRIDAY: PAGE ONE | PAGE TWO | PAGE THREE | PAGE FOUR | PAGE FIVE | PAGE SIX | PAGE SEVEN | PAGE EIGHT | PAGE NINE | PAGE TEN | PAGE ELEVEN | PAGE TWELVE | PAGE THIRTEEN | PAGE FOURTEEN | PAGE FIFTEEN (800m prelims, mile prelims, 5,000m final, distance medley relay final)
SATURDAY:
PAGE ONE | PAGE TWO | PAGE THREE | PAGE FOUR | PAGE FIVE | PAGE SIX | PAGE SEVEN | PAGE EIGHT (mile final, 800m final, 3,000m final)
FRIDAY HIGHLIGHTS: PAGE ONE | PAGE TWO
SATURDAY HIGHLIGHTS: PAGE ONE
MEN'S PHOTOS | DAY ONE WOMEN'S REPORT | DAY TWO WOMEN'S REPORT

With one lap to go in the 800m final, Nicole Cook continued to lead the race...
...with Akron's Beata Rudzinska running in second place.
Beth Heimann would finish sixth in 2:06.91.
Ashley Patten had an off day, finishing eighth in 2:15.15 but still earning All-America honors.
Cook continued to hold off all challengers down the homestretch and earned the win...
...by leading wire-to-wire and winning by more than a second in 2:03.27.
Neisha Bernard-Thomas took second (2:04.26) and Katie Erdman third (2:04.41). Pictured above is Patten, 8th.
Cook, who also played a large role in Tennessee's DMR victory, takes a victory lap.
Runners get ready for the 3,000m final. Many of the runners competing were doubling back from other events.
Kristin Price of NC State had finished sixth in the previous evening's 5,000m final.
Catherine "Cack" Ferrell of Princeton was making her first appearanceof the meet...
...as was first-time nationals qualifier and fellow Ivy Leaguer, Penn's Emily Logan.
L-R: Alicia Craig, Renee Metivier, Sara Bei, Treniere Clement, and 5,000m champion Kim Smith.
The 3,000 was probably the deepest distance event of the meet, but a lot of the athletes were tired...
...after running events earlier in the meet (in some cases, earlier in the day).
Some thought Kim Smith might be tired from the 5,000m record she set...
...the previous evening, but she quickly put those thoughts to rest.
Smith shot off the starting line as if she were running a 200-meter race.
UTEP's Adriana Pirtea and West Virginia's Megan Metcalfe.
Just past the 200-meter mark, Smith had already established a Tiffany McWilliams-esque lead.

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