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North
Carolina's Jessica Perry shortly after the two-mile mark.
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NAU
freshman Ariel Latimer.
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Nebraska
freshman Lindsey Finkner.
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Florida
State sophomore Jenny Gomez.
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Tennessee
junior Nicole Cook, an All-American in the 800.
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Between
2.5 and 3 miles, Flanagan's lead had grown to about six...
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...seconds
over Kim Smith, and Flanagan was covering a lot of ground in those
six seconds.
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Flanagan
appeared to be on her way to capturing her second-straight NCAA
XC title.
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In doing so, Flanagan would become the first woman to win back-to-back
titles since...
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...Villanova's
Carole Zajac exactly 10 years earlier. Villanova's Sonia O'Sullivan...
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...('90-'91)
is the only other woman to win back-to-back NCAA titles.
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Kim
Smith appeared to be the best of the rest. She had a cushion of...
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...about
7-8 seconds over Stanford's Alicia Craig at this point.
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Craig
seemed to be making an effort to pull away from the pack throughout...
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...the
race, but she never got very far away and expended a lot of energy
in trying.
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Craig
had scored a convincing win at the West Regional nine days earlier.
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L-R:
Michaela Mannova, Mary Cullen, Sara Bei and Carol Henry.
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Cullen,
Mannova, Bei and Henry run in spots 4-7.
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Cullen,
Henry and Bei all had teammates in front of them.
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Emily
Kroshus leads sisters Johanna Nilsson and Ida Nilsson.
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