W&L Women Picked to Win Fourth
Straight Cross Country Crown
Roanoke, Lynchburg, Bridgewater
Challenge for Top Spot
August 27, 2007
SALEM, Va. ---
Washington & Lee University (81
votes) received all nine first place votes in the annual ODAC
Women’s Cross Country Preseason Poll. Roanoke College (70) was
chosen second by the league’s coaches with Lynchburg College and
Bridgewater College (58 and 51, respectively) battling for the third
position.
Washington & Lee earned its
conference-best 10th all-time ODAC women’s cross country
crown a season ago, also marking its third straight triumph. Seven
of the top 14 individual times were posted by Generals including the
two best marks of the meet. Individual champion Jackie Burns and
sophomore Kat Telfeyan, last season’s Rookie of the Year, were the
first two runners to cross the finish line in times of 24:36.6 and
25:17.2, respectively. Washington & Lee’s first team All-ODAC
tandem was joined by five of its teammates on the second team
including possible returnees in junior Becca Taylor (26:38.7) and
sophomores Dorothy Todd (26:55.2), Mary Frances Weatherly (27:07.1)
and Lizz Krausnick (27:17.8). Taylor was also selected as the ODAC/Farm
Bureau Scholar-Athlete Award recipient.
Roanoke saw a trio of Maroons place
in the top seven in last season’s conference championships with all
three possibly set for a return to the course. Sophomore Mallory
McClaine finished third overall in a time of 25:39.9 and was joined
by senior Meg Harnett (25:50.8) and sophomore Liz Mumaw (25:52.8) on
the All-ODAC first team. Harnett was joined by W&L’s Burns and
Telfeyan as individual runners in the 2006 NCAA Div. III National
Championships hosted in Wilmington, Ohio.
Lynchburg and Bridgewater finished
fourth and fifth, respectively, at the ODAC championship meet a
season ago. The two schools were chosen to maintain the same order
in the standings, but leapfrog a spot into a battle for third
place. Former Hornet Ashley Armstead (graduation) was the lone
runner to post a top-14 time last year, but each teams returns
several athletes capable of taking the next step.
The 2007 ODAC season gets underway on
Saturday, September 1. This year’s ODAC Championships will be
hosted by Washington & Lee in Lexington, Virginia. The meet is
slated for Saturday, October 27.
Listed below is the entire ODAC
Women’s Cross Country Preseason Poll. For more information on ODAC
cross country, visit
www.odaconline.com or any of the competing schools sponsored
websites.
2007 ODAC Women’s Cross Country
Preseason Poll
(#) Denotes first place votes
|
1. Washington & Lee |
81 (9) |
|
2. Roanoke |
70 |
|
3. Lynchburg |
58 |
|
4. Bridgewater |
51 |
|
5. Eastern Mennonite |
45 |
|
6. Virginia Wesleyan |
41 |
|
7. Guilford |
28 |
|
8. Emory & Henry |
18 |
|
9. Randolph |
13 |
