Women’s Steeplechase Report

New Zealand Nationals, March 27-28 - Christchurch, NZL
(reported birth years in parentheses)
Women's Open 3000m SC, March 27 1-Fiona Crombie (82), Canterbury
10:20.97; 2-Karly Ryder (92) North Canterbury 12:47.42
Women age 19 and under 3000m SC, March 27
1-Caroline Mellsop (91) Wanganui 10:35.19; 2-Sarah McSweeney (90)
Canterbury 10:43.22; 3-Josie Wilcox (91) Tasman 11:29.70 [5 finish]
Girls age 16 and under 2000m SC, March 28
1-Jenna Hansen (93) Waikato 7:41.08; 2-Kate Hewitt (93) Canterbury
7:47.32; 3-Rebecca Attwell (94) Wanganui 7:51.87; 4-Rachel Martin (95)
Athletics Whanga 8:12.11.

Senior Athletics League, March 21 - Hong Kong
3000m SC: 1-Sarah Cheung Hoi Wah 12:17.03; 2-Chan Sin Hung (91)
13:08.21 [National Junior Record] 3-Yeung Mei Yi 14:48.35.

National Championships, March 20 - Irbid, Jordan
1-Ala Ziyad Khalifah (91) 11:15.97 National Record & NJR.
Youth Cup Meet, March 10 – Taipei
Women: 1-Wang Wen-Hsien (92) 11:32.63; 2-Chen Chao-Chun (92)
12:02.12; 3-Su Feng-Ting 12:05.71;
High School Girls: 1-Chen Yu-Hsuan (93) 11:16.85; 2-Chung Wan
Chen (93) 12:28.84.
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Spring Classic, March 27 - Carbondale, Illinois
1-Megan Hoelscher, Southern Illinois 10:53.70; 2-Kristin Pelzel, Marquette
11:01.68; 3-Kirsten Lang, Illinois State 11:26.35 [6th /Last = 12:27]

Cal-Nevada Champs, March 27 - Los Angeles
1-Denali Foldager, Cal State Stanislaus 10:57.00; 2-Brienna Morris,
Cal Poly 11:12.99; 3-Zitlalic Ley, CSU Northridge 11:13.85; 4- Natalia
Jarawka, Nevada 11:22.35; 5-LeAnne Fogg, Cal Poly 11:23.45; 6-Andrea
Jacobs, UC Santa Barbara 11:33.03 [14 finish; Last = 12:19.76]

Steepling Safety Series – Part Three
Be aware of the actual water pit length. Rules of the IAAF and
member organizations such as UK Athletics plus USA Track and
Field specify 3.66m (12 feet) including the hurdle – three words
missing for decades from the NCAA rulebook until 2008. By then
many campus pits had been constructed and some remain too long.
Further, the water could be too deep in a pit constructed via
NCAA rules which add three extra words, a minimum of, just
prior to “70 centimeters” which (without those extra words) has
been the specified depth for decades in the IAAF rules.
Interestingly, the IAAF now recommends that all new pits be
more shallow – 50 centimeters – which is echoed by UK rule 117
(Steeplechases) but not yet by the comparable USATF rule 169.

THANKS to SR 497 information sources: George Grenier,
Athletics New Zealand, Heinrich Hubbeling, Doris Hung
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RESULTS - 3000m Steeple unless noted otherwise.

Stanford Invitational, March 26 -- Palo Alto, California
Section A: 1-Shayla Houlihan, unattached 10:03.26; 2-Erin Bedell,
Baylor 10:03.81; 3-Kristen Hemphill, Colorado State 10:08.00; 4-
Claire Michel, Oregon 10:14.84; 5-Allix Lee-Painter, Idaho 10:23.61;
6- Margaret Callahan, Arizona 10:25.14; 7-Lois Ricardi Keller,
unattached 10:29.28; 8-Silje Fjortoft, SMU 10:30.62; 9-Jayne
Grebinski, Marquette 10:30.81; 10-Kristine Eikrem-Engeset, SMU
10:42.98; 11-Mallory Champa, Boston College 10:46.68; 12-Hannah
Moen, Arizona 10:46.74; 13-Klara Bodinson, SMU 10:46.99.
Section B (run earlier) 1-Erin Stratton, Utah State 10:29.31; 2-Samantha
Gallagher, La Salle 10:31.05; 3-Megan Rolland, Humboldt
State 10:35.82; 4-Jenielle Hunt, Ohio U. 10:39.77; 5-Natalie Busby,
Syracuse 10:40.39; 6-Alison Stoakley, UC Davis 10:42.44; 7-Kendra
Woodson, Oklahoma State 10:47.46; 8-Lauren Moran, Concordia
10:50.86; 9-Meaghan Nelson., Iowa State 10:52.45; 10-Hallidie Wilt,
Alaska Anchorage 10:53.23; 11-Sarah Muniz , UNLV 10:57.48;
12-Nicole Peters, Colorado State 10:58.01; 13-Shannon McVannel,
unnattached 10:58.88; 14-Jennifer Webers, Nebraska 11:06.84;
15-Laura Mucho, Dallas Baptist 11:08.85; 16-Nicole Cochran, Harvard
11:12.49; 17-Casey McDermott, Drake 11:14.07; 18-Emma
Bohman, Alaska Anchorage 11:15.63.

Rice Bayou Classic, March 26 - Houston, Texas
1-Lennie Waite, unattached/SCO 10:04.49; 2-Halsey Fowler, Rice
11:01.26; 3-Meredith Blocker, SF Austin 11:25.75; 4-Randi Wymer,
SF Austin 11:28.90 [8 finish; Last = 12:22.99]

Titan Twilight Meet, March 26 - Fullerton, California
1-Juliane Masciana, unattached 10:27.6; 2-Erin Roberts, Cornell
10:40.5; 3-Karla Alburez, unat 10:50.4; 4-Maura Carroll, Cornell
11:04.6; 5-Liliana Hernandez, unat 11:06.2; 6-Evelyn Ross, unat
11:08.7 [8 finish; Last = 12:14.2] “Outside” water jump was used.

Raleigh Relays, March 27 - Raleigh, North Carolina
1-Lise Ogrodnick, Georgetown 10:30.58; 2-Lauren Gregory, Georgetown
10:40.14; 3-Katie Kelly, Duquesne 10:42.23; 4-Kelsey Malmquist,
Georgetown 10:49.08; 5-Lilian Jelimo, Cincinnati 10:50.71;
6-Samantha Stafford, Virginia 10:54.59; 7-Keara Thomas, Charlotte
10:57.15; 8-Terah Cheatham, DePaul 11:00.54; 9-Annie Scully,
Northeastern 11:06.45; 10-Aurora Trujillo, Charlotte 11:32.28.
B Race; 1-Kelly Jemison, James Madison 11:19.40; 2-Jennifer
Pace, Slippery Rock 11:26.53; 3-Cortney Staruch, Cincinnati
11:29.38; 4-Katie Sullivan, Dartmouth 11:31.53 [10/ Last = 12:51.99]

FSU Relays, March 26 - Tallahassee, Florida
1-Nicole Rozario, S. South Florida 10:33.73; 2-Ashley Bunch, Missouri
Southern 10:53.43; 3-Kari Fritchie, unattached 11:08.40; 4-Lindsay
Edwards, Tampa 11:15.34; 5-Kadi Whisnant, Nicholls State
11:29.46 [7 finish; Last = 13:00.28]

Distance Carnival, March 26 San Francisco. California
1-Jessica Harper, unattached 10:41.83; 2-Caitlin Fitzgerald, UC Davis
10:45.56; 3-Jodie Leal, unattached 11:03.83; 4-Amy Schnittger,
Chico State 11:08.48; 5-Samantha Kearney, UC Davis 11:10.42; 6-
Jessica Brieno, Chico State 11:12.12; 7-Kate Call, So. Utah 11:12.23;
8-Kate Spencer, Chico State 11:24.00. [14 finish; Last = 14:29.51]

Alabama Relays, March 27 - Tuscaloosa, Alabama
1-Caitlin Engel, Indiana 10:46.67; 2-Erica Ridderman, Indiana
11:04.15; 3-Jennifer Cherono, Alabama-Huntsville 11:12.70;
4-Kristin Vaughn, UA-Birmingham 11:13.79; 5-Andrea Torske,
Alabama 11:18.17. [16 finish; Last = 13:27.64]

Yellow Jacket Invitational, March 27 - Atlanta, GA
1-Mary Kate DuBard, Georgia Tech 10:48.33; 2-Lindsey Petri,
Kentucky 11:03.49; 3-Andrea Halasek-Richardson, Kentucky
11:16.87; 4- Katharine Showalter, Georgia State 11:20.35.

Rhodes College Open, March 20 - Memphis, Tennessee
1-Juli Koenegstein, SE Missouri 10:56.41; 2-Elizabeth Smit, Calvin
11:00.32; 3-Nicole Farr, Calvin 11:13.64; [26 finish; Last = 13:44.61]

Women’s Steeplechase Report
Number 497 –- 30 March 2010
Our 15th Year – Readers in six continents