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September 30, 2006

Women's Results

GREENSBORO, N.C.—The five scoring Lady Knights all finished in the top-20 of the NCAA Division II portion of the Women’s 5,000-meter race at the 23rd Annual Greensboro Cross Country Invitational to help St. Andrews Presbyterian College to a second place finish out of 21 D-II teams.

All 10 Lady Knights runners wore green bands during the race with the initials AV in support of a full recovery for junior teammate Adam Vick. The men’s team co-captain from Salisbury, N.C., was struck by a car during practice last week and is currently being treated in his hometown.

St. Andrews, who has been ranked No. 5 in the Southeast Region for the past three weeks, finished second with 83 points. No. 2 regionally ranked North Carolina Central University won the women’s team title.

Sophomore Alyson Trovato (Cedar Park, Texas) led the Lady Knights with a third place finish out of 68 Division II runners and a 12th place result out of all 181 NCAA entrants. Trovato finished the 5k course in 20:03.

Junior Veronica Gobeyn (Mullins, S.C.) continues to improve with a 10th place finish with a split of 20:33. Gobeyn was only 13 seconds behind her PR that was set in her freshman campaign of 2004.

Sophomore Leah Nicholson (Hendersonville, N.C.) crossed the finish line in 12th at 20:51. The freshmen duo of Rachael Ambrosia (San Jose, Calif.) and Heather Woodard (Hampton, Va.) concluded SAPC’s scoring five with a 19th and 20th place finishes, respectively, with PR times of 21:18 and 21:31.

Junior Tessa Franz (Warren, Ore.) beat her 5k PR by 38 seconds by stopping the clock at 21:38 and into 23rd place. Other St. Andrews runners included freshman Bonnie MacDonald (Carthage, N.C.) with a time of 24:00; freshman Lauren Crabb (Kalamazoo, Mich.) at 26:43; sophomore India Hill’s (Somerset, Va.) PR of 27:36; and junior Jordan Copp (Overland Park, Kan.) concluding the running at 28:25.

The Lady Knights harriers will make the long trek to Orlando, Fla., for the Walt Disney Cross Country Classic on Saturday, October 7. The women’s race begins at 8:55 a.m.