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It’s not everyday that an athlete gets the chance to compete for a national title. Junior distance runner Claire Richardson took advantage of one such rare opportunity on Friday night, capping off a stellar season on the track with a 19th-place finish and personal record in the 5,000-meter run at the NCAA national championships in Eugene...
...last event on day three of the four-day national championship meet, so it wasn’t until just before seven that Richardson stepped up to the starting line for the last race of her junior year...
Senior Lisa Koll of Iowa State, who posted the fastest 10k time in Wednesday’s national championship race, led the group from the start, along with Illinois senior Angela Bizzarri and West Virginia junior Marie Louise Asselin. After the first few laps, Koll and Bizzarri began to pull ahead and stretch the gap separating them from the rest of the runners. Suddenly, Bizzarri slowed her pace and stepped off the track, withdrawing from the race, as Koll went on to win the national title with a time of 15:23.80, a full 30 seconds faster than...
After the first three finishers—Koll, Asselin, and Oregon junior Alex Kosinski— crossed the line, a blanket finish determined the next seven places in which the difference between fourth place and 10h place was just over one second. The remaining runners, including Richardson, followed closely behind...
Wheeler, who arrived at Harvard in 2007 as a sophomore, was a resident of Kirkland House and won a Hoopes prize in his junior year for a paper that was later found to be plagiarized...