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)

Eight qualifiers ended up coming out of this heat.	Automatic qualifiers were Christin Wurth (4:16.80), Shalane Flanagan (4:16.84), Maurica Carlucci (4:17.00) and Lauren King (4:17.01).	Amy Mortimer (4:17.42), Courtney Inman (4:17.53), Bethany Brewster (4:17.76) and Kassie Anderson (4:18.04) also advanced.	Christin Wurth won the heat with a personal best.	Bethany Brewster stops to sign an autograph for a young fan on her way off of the track.
Heat one of two in the steeplechase preliminaries.	The top four runners in each heat plus the next four fasest would advance.	Virginia's Melaine Matthews, UNC's Carol Henry and Michigan State's Ann Somerville lead.	Matthews, Somerville and Henry continue to lead.	Briana Shook, with a photo of her late grandfather pinned to her uniform, warms up for the second heat of the steeple.
Somerville, a junior at Michigan State and Henry, a freshman at UNC, lead.	Henry uses Somerville to help regain her balance.	Cal senior Marielle Schlueter.	Carol Henry moves out to a slight solo lead.	Henry, a freshman who originally hails from Canada was running only her third steeplechase ever here.
Henry used to run the 400 hurdles before becoming a distance runner and looks like she'll be a natural at this event.	Nan Evans, a junior at BYU.	Evans finished fifth in the final here last year, running 9:59.50.	Henry increases her lead.	NC State's Katie Sabino goes over the water barrier just ahead of Ann Somerville.

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