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NCAA
Indoor Track Championships All photos by Alison Wade/www.fast-women.com Highlights: Unedited
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Top-seeded
Colorado freshman Sara Gorton jogs out onto the track for the
women's 3,000.
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Missouri's
Ann Marie Brooks (who carried Missouri to a DMR victory the night
before) and Wisconsin's Bethany Brewster wait for the start.
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Boston
College's Shannon Smith.
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NCAA
cross country runner-up Sabrina Monro of Montana.
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L-R:
Lilli Kleinmann, Sara Day, Sheela Agrawal, Gorton, Brewster, Monro
and Sharolyn Shields.
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Gorton
and Duke's Agrawal run near the front of the pack.
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Michigan
standout Katie Jazwinski.
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Arkansas-Little
Rock freshman Ida Nilsson had a good race, finishing 5th in 9:19.41.
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Gorton
and Robertson (doubling back from her mile win) lead the race
with Smith, Monro and Brooks close behind.
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Katie
Ryan of Boson College.
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After
the race, Gorton's coach Mark Wetmore said she was a victim of
bad coaching after he gave her too aggressive of a race plan for
the cold that she's been battling.
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Robertson
was understandably unable to stay with the leaders as the 3,000
started just 80 minutes after the mile.
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Day
(8th, 9:23.60) and Stanford's Elena Villarreal (12th, 9:36.65).
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Shannon
Smith stayed near the front throughout and took over the lead
with three laps to go.
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Lilli
Kleinmann (with Katie Ryan) was never a factor in the race after
suffering from dehydration the night before. One minute she was
running along in the pack...
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...And
just a few strides later she dropped off the track and collapsed.
Read Kleinmann's
account of her NCAA weekend.
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Smith,
a fifth year senior at BC, did not run NCAA cross country this
year because she was out of eligibility.
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Smith
became BC's first-ever national champion and broke the 3,000m
school record by nine seconds with her 9:11.25.
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The
7th seed heading into the race, Smith was hardly considered one
of the favorites.
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Ann
Marie Brooks capped off an excellent weekend of running with her
runner-up finish (9:12.43).
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Monro
finished 10th in 9:25.88.
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