1 CU Coach M. Wetmore Still Unsure if His Men Won/Preparing for Women's
2 They're Off
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5 Arizona's Chaplin Had an Early Lead
6 The Chasers
7 Chasers From Different Angle - Including #2 Metivier (199) and #3 Fleshman (276)
8 Stacey Ritz of Ball State Would Wind Up #17
9 M. Larson of C. State and Janet Rono of S. Miss would end up 90th and 215th
10 Many ladies including Lauren King (#248) of Notre Dame and Darja Vasiljeva (r.) of Minnesota
11 Nervous Fans
12 Tara Chaplin Was Out Front Early
13 Shalane Flanagan Leading the Chasers
14 All those in the hunt for the individual title except Chaplin
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16 NC's Carol Henry Would End Up 38th
17 Arkansas' #3 Penny Splichal
18 BYU's #1 Michael Manova Leading The Way To An NCAA Title
19 BYU's #3 Tara Northcutt (143) who ends up 9th
20 BYU's #5 Sarah Taylor would give the Cougars the title when she finished 24th
21 Lots of ladies including G-Town's Amanda Pape
22 The Ivy League's #2 Caitlin Hicklin (Columbia) would end up 20th
23 Lots of ladies in the house early on
24 South Florida's Tara Quinn (#269) was cheered on by a large USF contingent that slept outside (no tent) in 30 degree weather
25 Stanford's #6 Marirel Ettinger among others
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29 Amazing Depth!!! BYU's Amy Bair (#149) was the Cougar's 7th runner in 45th. Only 3 other teams even had 3 higher than that.
30 NC State's 5th woman is 6th year runner Christy Nichols (#240)
31 Hey Ladies Did I Tell You I'm A National Champ
32 Just like Boaz except she got caught
33 NC State's Krisin Price leads the chase
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35 Price and Flanagan trying to catch Chaplin
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37 It's not where you start but where you finish. UVA's Jennifer Owens would end up 6th while Lisa Aguilera (#108) and Cheryl Smith (#308) would end up 18th and 15th
38 BYU, BYU, BYU
39 Everlyn Lagat of WSU- Bernard's little sis
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41 Yale's O'Neill Twins
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43 14th place finisher Jill Laurendeau of GTown
44 She trains in Flagstaff: NAU's Susie Rutherford - does she know Wejo??
45 Rachel Felton of BU: "This Hurts"
46 This Hurts
47 Here come the masses including NCAA 5k runner-up Kelly McDonald of ASU
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50 Chaplin still in the lead
51 the chase pack
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53 Virginia's Jennifer Owens
54 UNC's #2 Carol Henry
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57 They're catching Chaplin
58 Flanagan would open up a 8 second lead before having to walk
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61 Second isn't so bad afterall - #2 at ACCs, #2 at NCAAs
62 The top twin in the field: BC's Maggie Guinney got 10th.
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64 Never give up: CU's Molly Austin would finish 8th. In '99, she was 236th.
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66 Flanagan Back in Front
67 Georgia Tech's Renee Metivier in 2nd
68 The Battle for 3rd
69 Manova - #1 BYU's #1
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71 BYU's #2
72 BYU's #3 Northcutt would be passed by Austin
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75 Making wejo proud
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81 50 yards to go
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83 More of the finishing straight
84 The battle for 14th - Laurendeau (r.) would hold off Smith
85 BC's Maria Cicero doing her best Michael Jordan imitation
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88 the 2nd O'Neil twin of Yale
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90 Everlyne Lagat can kick like her bro as she beat all the others
91 That's depth! BYU's #6 Nan Evans would pass G-town's #3 Marni Kruppa
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94 You'd better sprint as within 15 seconds of ASU's Kelly McDonald crossing the line, 32 others would do so as well.
95 That's last year's runner-up Sabrina Monro way back on the left in purple. Struggling with achilles tendinitis, she finished 78th.
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99 the masses coming in one after another
100 Staggering In: Colorado State's Marget Larson in 161st less than 50 yards from the finish. She would heroicly finish in 215th.
101 Out of the Way Idiot
102 Finishing means a lot. Larson staggering after falling down. She would collapse again on the finishing mat.
103 Surprise 4th Place Arizona
104 4th place Arizona most excited about the fact that they beat Stanford.
105 Winner Tara Chaplin - the high mileage king
106 Stanford's Lauren Fleshman
107 CU Coach Mark Wetmore
108 Top 15 Women
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