Ravenna Neville ’10 and Liz Wheatley ’09 placed 52nd and 101st of 279 runners, respectively, in the NCAA Division III Women’s Cross Country Championship at Hanover College in Hanover, Ind on Nov. 22. Neville covered the 6k course in 22:02.92 and Wheatley clocked in at 20:43.91
Both runners had earned at-large bids to the Championship based on their success in the previous week’s New England Division III Championship, in which Neville finished fifth out of 330 runners with a time of 23:02.6 and Wheatley came in 11th at 23:10.7.
2008 marks the fifth consecutive year Wesleyan has been represented at the Championship; the Cardinals qualified as a team in 2004 and had individual qualifiers the last four seasons.
This year, however, marked the first time Wesleyan sent two individuals. Overall, Neville and Wheatley are the fifth and sixth Wesleyan women to qualify individually for the NCAA Championship, joining Allegra Burton ’87 (who qualified four times), Sarah Hann ’95 (twice), Ellen Davis ’07 (twice) and Lucia Pier ’08.
Middlebury won the team title with a score of 179. A NESCAC team has won the title the last three years and eight of the past nine seasons. Because Wesleyan did not qualify as a team, it did not have a team score.
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