2003 Women's Cross Country - Year In Review
Bob Braman, Head Coach
Althea Belgrave, Graduate Assistant
Wade Brett, Volunteer Assistant
John Guarino, Graduate Assistant
Peter Ormsby, Volunteer Assistant
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2003 Women's Cross Country - Year In Review | |
| Coaching Staff Bob Braman, Head Coach Althea Belgrave, Graduate Assistant Wade Brett, Volunteer Assistant John Guarino, Graduate Assistant Peter Ormsby, Volunteer Assistant Click here to see individual photos |
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Stefanie Bechler, 5-8, Libertyville, Ill.
Tina Biedenharn, 5-4, Orange Park
Christina Boekhout, Merritt Island
Heather Clark, 5-3, Brewer, Maine
Adrienne Lufkin, 5-4, Saint Petersburg
Kara Newell, 5-4, Tallahassee
Angelina Ramos, 5-5, New Fairfield, Conn.
Meredith Urban, 5-9, Raleigh, N.C.
2003 Roster - By Name
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Carla Agnew Fr Oshawa, Ontario, Canada (McLaughlin)
Stefanie Bechler 5-8 Fr Libertyville, Ill. (Libertyville)
Tina Biedenharn 5-4 Fr Orange Park (Ridgeview)
Christina Boekhout Fr Merritt Island (Merritt Island)
* Heather Clark 5-3 Fr Brewer, Maine (Brewer)
* Anne Clinton 5-6 Jr ** Richmond, Ind. (Richmond)
Abbie Day 5-4 So * Winter Park (Lake Howell)
Claudia Dorvillus 5-1 So Naples (Naples)
Brianne Frarrer Fr-R Naples (Saint John Neumann)
Tracy Friedlander So Miami (Ransom Everglades)
* Vicky Gill Sr ** Lancashire, England (Saint Andrews University)
Terra Goebel 5-2 So Palm Coast (Flager-Palm Coast)
* Jenny Gomez So * Miami (Lourdes Academy)
* Helen Hofstede 5-11 Sr Hoogkarspel, Netherlands (RSG Enkhuizen)
Janet Howard 5-5 Jr Clearwater (Central Catholic)
* Natalie Hughes 5-4 Jr ** Grand Junction, Colo. (Palisade)
Amanda Jordan 5-8 So-R Oklahoma City, Okla. (Bishop McGuinness)
Mari Leitner 5-8 Jr-R Pensacola (Washington)
Adrienne Lufkin 5-4 Fr Saint Petersburg (Lakewood)
Sydney Mondragon 5-4 Jr Pueblo, Colo. (Pueblo South)
Kara Newell 5-4 So Tallahassee (Maclay/Boston College)
Katie Puckett 5-8 So Pensacola (East Hill Christian)
Angelina Ramos 5-5 Fr New Fairfield, Conn. (New Fairfield)
Nikki Renzulli 5-3 So Cranston, R.I. (Cranston West)
Gina Riano 5-3 So Miami Shores (Archbishop Curley)
Meghan Rogers 5-4 Jr Wellington (Cardinal Newman)
Suzanne Shephard 5-5 So-R Ellis, Kans. (Ellis)
* Rachel Springer 5-2 Jr-R * Kissimmee (Osceola)
* Meredith Urban 5-9 Fr Raleigh, N.C. (Green Hope)
Julia Vola Fr Boca Raton (Spanish River)
Candace Walls 5-4 So Boynton Beach (Atlantic)
Kristin Walls 5-4 So Boynton Beach (Atlantic)
Cathleen Willy 5-4 So Pembroke Pines (Flanagan)
2003 Conference Awards
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Vicky Gill Atlantic Coast Conference - All-Conference
All-Conference - 1
2003 All-Americans
Name Organization
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Vicky Gill NCAA - - 11th place
Natalie Hughes NCAA - - 43rd place
All-Americans - 2
2003 Schedule and Results
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| Mountaineer Open Boone, N.C. |
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| Florida Intercollegiate | |||||
| Great American Cary, N.C. |
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| flrunners.com Invitational Tampa, Fla. |
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| Disney World Classic Lake Buena Vista, Fla. |
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| NCAA Pre-Nationals Cedar Falls, Iowa |
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| ACC Championship Winston-Salem, N.C. |
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| NCAA South Regional Auburn, Ala. |
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| NCAA Championship Cedar Falls, Iowa |
EOY StatsRef Overall Home Away Neutral ------------------------------------------------ FSU record is 0- 0 0- 0 0- 0 0- 0
2003 Atlantic Coast Conference Results 1 North Carolina 40 2 North Carolina State 44 3 Wake Forest 62 4 Duke 120 5 Florida State 135 6 Virginia 142 7 Maryland 209 8 Georgia Tech 229 9 Clemson 282
2003 EOY Stats
Team Overall Name Races Top 7 Top 10 Wins =============================================== Natalie Hughes 7 7 2 0 Anne Clinton 7 7 2 0 Helen Hofstede 7 7 2 0 Heather Clark 7 7 1 0 Rachel Springer 7 7 0 0 Jenny Gomez 7 7 0 0 Vicky Gill 6 5 5 2 Meredith Urban 4 1 0 0 Sydney Mondragon 4 1 0 0 Carla Agnew 3 3 0 0 Adrienne Lufkin 3 2 0 0 Mari Leitner 3 2 0 0 Tina Biedenharn 3 2 0 0 Claudia Dorvillus 3 2 0 0 Abbie Day 2 1 0 0 Stefanie Bechler 2 1 0 0 Angelina Ramos 2 0 0 0 Kristin Walls 2 0 0 0 Candace Walls 2 0 0 0 Amanda Jordan 1 1 0 0 Kara Newell 1 0 0 0 Katie Puckett 1 0 0 0 Suzanne Shephard 1 0 0 0
WOMEN 5K RACE Place Name Points Time ===== ========================= ====== ======== 5 Natalie Hughes 4 18:27.1 6 Anne Clinton 5 18:32.7 8 Helen Hofstede 7 18:42.8 16 Heather Clark 15 19:36.7 19 Rachel Springer 17 19:41.9 27 Carla Agnew 23 20:15.4 29 Jenny Gomez 25 20:22.9 31 Meredith Urban 20:27.6 41 Sydney Mondragon 21:12.7
Natalie Hughes 2nd 18:11.06 Helen Hofstede 3rd 18:14.14 Anne Clinton 5th 18:21.58 Heather Clark 7th 18:36.99 Rachel Marsh 11th 18:53.51 Jenny Gomez 16th 19:07.81 Carla Agnew 22nd 19:29.44
WOMEN 5K RACE Place Name Points Time ===== ========================= ====== ======== 1 Vicky Gill 16:37.77 3 Natalie Hughes 2 18:11.06 4 Helen Hofstede 3 18:14.14 6 Anne Clinton 5 18:21.58 9 Heather Clark 7 18:36.99 13 Rachel Springer 11 18:53.51 18 Jenny Gomez 16 19:07.81 24 Kara Newell 19:25.07 25 Carla Agnew 22 19:29.44 28 Meredith Urban 19:33.37 41 Adrienne Lufkin 20:04.36 44 Sydney Mondragon 20:06.67 48 Mari Leitner 20:13.50 54 Abbie Day 20:28.52 78 Tina Biedenharn 21:19.24 87 Angelina Ramos 21:52.21 96 Kristin Walls 22:38.81 97 Claudia Dorvillus 22:46.03 98 Candace Walls 22:53.30 109 Katie Puckett 25:11.38
WOMEN 5K RACE Place Name Points Time ===== ========================= ====== ======== 2 Vicky Gill 2 17:07.2 13 Natalie Hughes 13 18:15.8 22 Helen Hofstede 22 18:37.3 27 Anne Clinton 27 18:44.3 45 Rachel Springer 45 19:16.3 50 Heather Clark 50 19:21.5 83 Jenny Gomez 83 20:18.8
WOMEN 5K RACE Place Name Points Time ===== ========================= ====== ======== 21 Mari Leitner 19 20:12.31 29 Adrienne Lufkin 25 20:42.22 35 Sydney Mondragon 30 21:06.36 39 Tina Biedenharn 33 21:10.78 41 Stefanie Bechler 35 21:23.05 53 Claudia Dorvillus 46 21:53.24 58 Amanda Jordan 51 22:07.28 63 Kristin Walls 22:13.14 72 Candace Walls 22:51.01 110 Angelina Ramos 26:01.58
WOMEN 5K RACE Place Name Points Time ===== ========================= ====== ======== 61 Meredith Urban 53 19:38.14 82 Mari Leitner 71 19:56.22 125 Abbie Day 104 20:41.77 126 Adrienne Lufkin 105 20:42.20 133 Tina Biedenharn 112 20:53.14 142 Carla Agnew 119 21:03.30 166 Claudia Dorvillus 136 21:30.78 174 Stefanie Bechler 21:36.71 178 Sydney Mondragon 21:39.87 187 Suzanne Shephard 21:49.20
WOMEN 6K RACE Place Name Points Time ===== ========================= ====== ======== 3 Vicky Gill 3 19:55.6 18 Natalie Hughes 18 20:58.5 82 Helen Hofstede 82 22:05.7 99 Heather Clark 99 22:16.8 108 Anne Clinton 108 22:22.2 150 Jenny Gomez 150 22:57.4 166 Rachel Springer 166 23:12.3
WOMEN 6K RACE Place Name Points Time ===== ========================= ====== ======== 2 Vicky Gill 2 19:49.5 24 Natalie Hughes 24 21:34.3 33 Anne Clinton 32 21:56.3 40 Helen Hofstede 38 22:12.6 41 Heather Clark 39 22:15.4 44 Rachel Springer 42 22:19.0 50 Jenny Gomez 46 22:51.7 59 Meredith Urban 23:26.2
WOMEN 6K RACE Place Name Points Time ===== ========================= ====== ======== 1 Vicky Gill 1 19:48.04 11 Natalie Hughes 11 21:13.53 23 Anne Clinton 23 21:43.16 25 Helen Hofstede 25 21:44.40 34 Rachel Springer 33 22:01.07 59 Heather Clark 58 22:37.70 83 Jenny Gomez 79 23:05.80
Gill Leads the Noles at the NCAA Cross Country National Championships.
The women finished 18th, up ten spots from last year's finish while the men took 29th in their first trip since 1981.
CEDAR FALLS, IA - The Florida State women's cross country team enjoyed the fruits of labor, getting back to the NCAA National Championships and improving from last year's 28th place finish to place 18th this time. The Noles ran in un-Florida like weather with the temperature holding steady at minus three degrees with the wind chill at the 11:00 a.m. men's start. The meet was hosted by the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls.
"Our ladies ran fantastic for it to be minus three degrees at the start of the race. We picked up some big wins beating Wake Forest for the first time as well as Duke in the conference. We also beat Tennessee, who finished ahead of us (in first place) at the regionals. We finished very well being the third ACC team to cross the finish line and the first in the South Region," said head coach Bob Braman.
The women's team was led by senior Vicky Gill, who finished eleventh overall - up from last year's 15th place finish - and junior Natalie Hughes, who placed 34th, both earning All-America honors for the 2003 cross country season.
"Vicky moved up (from last year's finish of 15th) while Natalie ran the best cross country of her life. Helen ran a personal best by 28 seconds to finish 115th and Rachel, after setting a personal best last time out - set another one again. Rachel put us in last week's race and here she did it again. Anne (Clinton) was right behind her and she did especially well after almost getting run over at the start," said Braman.
The women finished 18th overall with 455 points. Last year, the women made their first trip to nationals finishing 28th out of 31 teams. This year, behind Gill and Hughes, senior Helen Hofstede completed the race in a time of 21:20.3 which was good for 89th place, junior Rachel Marsh ran another personal best time of 21:58 to place 156th followed by junior Anne Clinton who finished in 165th place at 22:06.1. Marsh's prior personal best time was set last week at the NCAA South Regionals. The Orlando, Fla. native's time helped the women earn the automatic bid to Iowa.
The men were led by freshman Luke Beevor with a place of 100th and a time of 31:04.8 followed by junior Eddie Rodriguez in 130th place in 31:24.6. Junior Ian Hornabrook (151st - 31:36.4), freshman Tom Lancashire (161st - 31:43.7) and sophomore Kevin Cook (191st - 32:24.3) Junior Joep Tigchelaar was disqualified for running outside of the course.
"With Joep, their was a big controversy because less than two miles out, he was pushed off the course and couldn't get back in so he ran next to the course. Luke had the best day for us because he ran really well despite his injury. For two weeks, he hasn't really had a full workout so he toughed it out for us. Eddy ran awesome and did a really nice job for a kid from Miami as did Kevin (Cook) who's never seen snow before. Ian also handled the rough course well. More importantly, the guys ran as hard as they have all year. We tried to adapt to the weather but obviously were physically at a huge deficit," said Braman.
UNC's Shalane Flanagan defended her national title completing the 6K course in 19:30.4. Stanford took the team titles in both the men's and women's races while Colorado's Dathan Ritzenhein won the 10K
race in 29:14.1.
WOMEN 6K RACE Place Name Points Time ===== ========================= ====== ======== 11 Vicky Gill 11 20:08.5 43 Natalie Hughes 34 20:50.1 115 Helen Hofstede 89 21:20.3 193 Rachel Springer 156 21:58.0 203 Anne Clinton 165 22:06.1 223 Heather Clark 185 22:20.5 251 Jenny Gomez 213 23:44.3