WILFERT THIRD IN CLOSE NESCAC WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY RACE

WILFERT THIRD IN CLOSE NESCAC WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY RACE
COLLEGE WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY RESULTS
NESCAC Championship
Sunday, November 1, 2009
At Manchester, CT (Wickham Park)

Results
Amy Wilfert was two seconds out of first place at the 2009 NESCAC Championship


MANCHESTER, Conn. -- In a very tightly contested New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) Championship race on Sunday, Tufts University junior Amy Wilfert (Westborough, MA) finished in third place with a 21:41 time. She was two seconds behind race champion Sophia Galleher from Amherst and one second behind runner-up Ravenna Neville of Wesleyan.

This marked the fourth straight year that Tufts had a runner in the top 3 at NESCAC's. Stephanie McNamara was the runner-up last fall, Cat Beck was second in 2007, and Katy O'Brien won the race while Beck was second in 2006.

The Jumbos placed seventh as a team on Sunday. Sophomore Anya Price (Natick, MA) crossed the finish line second for the Jumbos and 39th overall in a 23:21 time over 3.8 miles. The third Tufts scorer was first-year Grace Hafner (Healdsburg, CA), who ran 24:01 for 55th place overall.

Sophomore Sadie Lansdale (Bethesda, MD) stepped up for Coach Kristen Morwick's team and was 61st overall (24:07), while classmate Kelsey Picciuto (Cornwall, NY) was the fifth Tufts scorer with a 24:09 time for 62nd place. The race featured 121 runners overall.

Middlebury won the team championship with a score of 49, 10 ahead of runner-up Williams.

Tufts races in the ECAC Championships next week at Williams.

Courtesy Tufts