NCAA OUTDOOR TRACK & FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, May 29-June 1, 2002

ALL PHOTOS ALISON WADE/NEW YORK ROAD RUNNERS

DAY ONE: PAGE ONE | PAGE TWO | PAGE THREE | PAGE FOUR | PAGE FIVE (800m Preliminaries, 10,000m Final)
DAY TWO: PAGE ONE | PAGE TWO | PAGE THREE | PAGE FOUR (1,500m Preliminaries, Steeplechase Preliminaries)
DAY THREE: PAGE ONE | PAGE TWO | PAGE THREE | PAGE FOUR (800m Final, 5,000m Final)
DAY FOUR: PAGE ONE | PAGE TWO | PAGE THREE | PAGE FOUR (1,500m Final, Steeplechase Final)

The pack heads around the first turn.	Lena Nilsson displayed impressive leg speed on the last lap, winning in 4:23.42.	Because of the slow pace, all of the time qualifiers ended up coming out of the second heat.	Natalie Hughes (4:24.23), Heather Sagan (4:24.81) and Londa Bevins (4:25.41) were the other qualifiers.	Megan Metcalfe (5th, 4:26.19) just missed advancing.
Katie Eisenmenger finished eighth in 4:27.72.	Shalane Flanagan claps as her teammate Erin Donohue is announced.	Christin Wurth and Amy Mortimer at the start of heat two in the 1,500 prelims.	L-R: Maurica Carlucci of Stanford, Erin Donohue of UNC, Courtney Inman of Washington and Lauren King of Notre Dame.	North Carolina's Shalane Flanagan leads the pack 300 meters into the race, on her outside are Bevins and Inman.
L-R: Inman, Elmore, King, Wurth and Flanagan.	Flanagan is known as a front-runner and would assure that the pace did not lag here.	R-L: King, Inman, Malindi Elmore and Donohue.	Amy Mortimer hangs back behind the pack.	Flanagan continues to lead.
Also in the pack is #401 Bethany Brewster, a junior at Wisconsin.	#320 Maurica Carlucci of Stanford moves up on the outside with 400 meters remaining.	The pack stretches out behind Flanagan.	R-L: Mortimer, Elmore, Brewster, Donohue, Inman and BYU's Kassie Anderson.	Down the home stretch, it's a tight race.

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