USA JUNIOR & SENIOR OUTDOOR TRACK & FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, June 19-22, 2003

ALL PHOTOS ALISON WADE/NEW YORK ROAD RUNNERS

THURSDAY: PAGE ONE | PAGE TWO | PAGE THREE | PAGE FOUR | PAGE FIVE | PAGE SIX | PAGE SEVEN (800m Prelims., 1,500m Prelims., 10,000m Final)
FRIDAY: PAGE ONE | PAGE TWO | PAGE THREE | PAGE FOUR | PAGE FIVE (800m Semi-Finals, 5,000m Final)
SATURDAY: PAGE ONE | PAGE TWO | PAGE THREE | PAGE FOUR | PAGE FIVE | PAGE SIX | PAGE SEVEN | PAGE EIGHT | PAGE NINE (Steeplechase Final, 1,500m Final, Junior 1,500m Prelims., Junior 800m Prelims., Junior 5,000m Final)
SUNDAY: PAGE ONE | PAGE TWO | PAGE THREE | PAGE FOUR | PAGE FIVE | PAGE SIX | PAGE SEVEN | PAGE EIGHT (800m Final, Junior 2,000m Steeplechase Final, Junior 1,500m Final, Junior 800m Final, Junior 3,000m Final)
MEN'S PHOTOS

R-L on the first lap of the third 800m prelim: Hazel Clark, Jen Toomey, Krista Ferrara and Katrina de Boer.
R-L: Clark, Vicky Fleschner, Toomey, Kristina Bratton, Ferrara and de Boer.
Ferrara leads Bratton, de Boer, Katie Poindexter and Beth Heimann.
Hazel Clark (2:04.60), Jen Toomey (2:05.24) and Katrina de Boer (2:06.27) went 1-2-3.
Katie Poindexter (4th, 2:06.37) grabbed the final automatic qualifying spot...
...and Krista Ferrara (left, 5th, 2:06.72) advanced on time.
Clark represented the U.S. at the 2001 World Championships and would be looking for a 2003 berth here.
Florida's Kristina Bratton (7th, 2:08.51) did not advance.
Krista Ferrara ran for Indiana University -- finishing her eligibility in 1997 -- where she now coaches.
Shalane Flanagan of North Carolina leads the first of two 1,500m prelims.
The top four in each of the two prelims. plus the runners with the next four fastest times would advance to the final.
R-L: Londa Bevins, Bethany Brewster, Mary Jayne Harrelson, Jenelle Deatherage, Shayne Culpepper, Elissa Riedy, Mari Chandler and Sally Hauser.
North Carolina's Shalane Flanagan sets the pace. Flanagan had finished second in the NCAA 5,000m final less than a week earlier.
R-L: Flanagan, Sarah Schwald, Bevins, Regina Jacobs, Harrelson, Culpepper and Deatherage.
R-L: Bevins, Harrelson, Brewster, Culpepper, Hauser and Deatherage.
Flanagan continues to lead with one lap to go...
...and most of the field remains close behind.
After a good run at the NCAA Championships a week earlier, Bethany Brewster (11th, 4:26.71) had a rough day here.
Regina Jacobs used her usual sit-and-kick strategy to blow away the field on the final lap.
She won the first prelim. in 4:11.22, easily advancing to the final.

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