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

The start of the steeplechase final.
Briana Shook and Lisa Aguilera lead.
L-R: Dawn Cleary, Kelly MacDonald and Mollie DeFrancesco.
R-L: Cleary, Kassi Andersen and Lisa Antonelli.
Using her usual strategy, Briana Shook already holds a big lead on her first...
...trip over the water barrier. The Univerity of Toledo runner redshirted the collegiate season...
...and had raced well, but she hadn't run as many races as some of the other collegians.
Cleary runs in second and MacDonald, DeFrancesco and Aguilera follow.
Because this event is so new for women, the field was heavy on collegians and recent graduates.
DeFrancesco leads Boston College's Jennifer Donovan and Penn State's Molly Landreth.
Sarah Gall leads Lisa Antonelli.
Shook was among the favorites here, but runners like...
...BYU's Kassi Andersen, who had won the NCAA Steeplechase title...
...a week earlier were expected to challenge.
The question was if they were letting Shook get a little too far ahead.
The javelin competition was going on during the race and the officials did a poor job of keeping the throwers off the track... Here a disaster was narrowly averted.
Shook's go-out-hard strategy usually worked against weaker competition, but she hadn't yet pulled it off successfully in a national-level competition.
BYU's Andersen (with Dawn Cleary) prefers to use a come-from-behind strategy...
...but it looked like she may have waited too long to make up all of the distance Shook had put on her.
Cleary and Andersen lead Aguilera, Jane Rudkin and Donovan.

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