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Curham Finishes Fourth And Advances, Tigers Finish Third And Wait And See
November 14, 2014 | Women's Cross Country
NCAA Women's Mid-Atlantic Regional Cross-Country Results
Sophomore Megan Curham is heading to the NCAA cross-country national championship meet. Will the rest of her teammates be going with her?
Curham finished fourth at the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional at Penn State Friday afternoon to earn a spot in the NCAA championship race, which will be held Nov. 22 in Terre Haute, Ind.
Princeton's team finished third, behind Georgetown and West Virginia, and now finds itself waiting to see if it will be one of the teams that gets an at-large bid to the field. The Tigers had 125 points, behind the Hoyas with 38 and West Virginia with 42 but just ahead of Villanova, who had 128.
Curham, who finished 34th at the NCAA championships a year ago to earn All-America honors, finished the 6,000 meter course in 20:28, fourth behind Georgetown's Katrina Coogan (20:06) and West Virginia's Jillian Forsey (20:18) and Katie Gillespie (20:22).
Curham, who won the Ivy League Heptagonal championship two weeks ago, will run in Terre Haute as either a member of a qualifying team or as one of the top four finishers from a non-qualifying team.
Princeton's second-place finisher was freshman Natalie Rathjen, who finished 25th in a time of 21:17. Rathjen fell with a little less than a mile to go but got up and passed several runners near the finish to push the Tigers past Villanova.
Princeton's finishers:
4. Megan Curham 20:2825. Natalie Rathjen 21:17
31. Kathryn Little 21:25
32. Kathryn Fluehr 21:26
33. Lindsay Eysenbach 21:28
39. Erika Fluehr 21:33
81. Maria Seykora 22:24