NCAA OUTDOOR TRACK & FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS
University of Texas, Austin, TX, June 9-12, 2004
ALL PHOTOS ALISON WADE/NEW YORK ROAD RUNNERS

THURSDAY: 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 (800 prelims, 1,500 prelims, steeplechase prelims, 10,000 final)
SATURDAY: PAGE ONE | PAGE TWO | PAGE THREE | PAGE FOUR | PAGE FIVE | PAGE SIX | PAGE SEVEN | PAGE EIGHT | PAGE NINE (1,500 final, steeplechase final, 800 final, 5,000 final)
THURSDAY HIGHLIGHTS: PAGE ONE | PAGE TWO | PAGE THREE
SATURDAY HIGHLIGHTS: PAGE ONE
MEN'S PHOTOS | WEDNESDAY WOMEN'S REPORT | THURSDAY WOMEN'S REPORT | SATURDAY WOMEN'S REPORT

R-L: Tennessee's Kameisha Bennett, Florida's Kamille Bratton, and SUNY-Buffalo's Allison Laske (5th, 2:06.73) on the first lap in the first 800m prelim.	R-L: Aneita Denton (who advanced by finishing third in 2:06.51), Bratton (4th, 2:06.55, a surprise non qualifier), Kajsa Haglund (6th, 2:07.27) and Laske.	Bennett (2:03.83) won the heat with the fastest time of the day, Nicole Petty and Aneita Denton were the other two who advanced to the final.	R-L: Brooke Patterson, Ashley Caldwell, and Beata Rudzinska. Because Wednesday's first round was cancelled due to the weather, there were only two rounds of the 800.	The winner of each of the four prelims, plus the runners with the next five fastest times, advanced to the final. R-L: Danute Ceika, Chinny Offor, Kali Baker and Sarah Reese.
Rudzinska won the second prelim in 2:05.52. Patterson (2:05.68) was the only other runner who advanced.	R-L: Tulsa's Melanie Hardy, LSU's Neisha Bernard-Thomas, and Kentucky's Beth Heimann run in the third prelim.	Also in there are Utah's Nellie Hammons, Illinois' Carlene Robinson, and Tennessee's Leslie Treherne.	Bernard-Thomas won comfortably in 2:04.21, with Nikeya Green of Wake Forest (2:05.36) and Robinson (2:06.30) also advancing.	2004 NCAA Indoor champion Nicole Cook at the start of the fourth prelim. Cook was the most surprising casualty of the prelims.
Alice Schmidt of UNC, the two-time defending champion, led on the first lap, with a host of others right behind.	Schmidt won in 2:06.03, the slowest of the heat winners. Cook finished second in 2:07.01 and did not advance.	As usual, Tiffany McWilliams jumped out to an early lead in the first 1,500 prelim.	Arianna Lambie, a freshman at Stanford, was the only runner who even seemed to pay attention to McWilliams' fast early pace.	McWilliams strategy is predictable, but effective. She's won two NCAA titles (1,500m outdoors in '03 and mile indoors in 04) with it.
Lambie, who had run a 4:11 1,600m split at Penn Relays earlier in the season, began to fade on the second lap. She finished in 4:21.56 and missed advancing by a little over one second.	The chase pack was led by Mississippi State's Jennifer McPherson and Duke's Shannon Rowbury.	McWilliams maintains a sizeable lead over the rest of the field.	The pack, now led by Wisconsin's Hilary Edmondson and Virginia Tech's Marlies Overbeeke, swallows up Lambie with one lap to go.	R-L: Rowbury, Melissa McBain, Erin Donohue (mostly obscured), Lambie, Valentina Medina, and Laura Lavoie.

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