Air Force Academy
ROY GRIAK INVITATIONAL
Falcons Place 25th at Roy Griak Invitational
9/29/2001 12:00:00 AM | Women's Cross Country
Sept. 29, 2001
In the women's race, the Falcons placed 25th with a team score of 634 points. Coach Mark Stanforth can be very proud of the Air Force runners. In the field of 300 competitors, the Falcon women finished the race with a team average time of 22:45. Brandess Pardue, a sophomore from Aurora, Colo., was the team leader in 22:38 she finished in 111th place. Pardue, like the rest of her teammates, shaved seconds off her previous time. Pardue ran 22:54 at the New Mexico Invitational on Sept. 22. The rest of the Falcons' top seven runners, with season best times, were Anne Chumlea who finished 117th in 22:40, Elissa Ballas in 124th (22:43), Jean Taylor in 135th (22:48), Lara Coppinger in 147th (22:54), Kelly McPherson at 175th (23:16) and Cindy Dawson who finished 195th with a season best time of 23:36. Also finishing were Mary Uhler and Stephanie Cornell with times of 23:57 and 24:39, respectively. Cornell's time is also a season best. Thirty-two teams ran the 6K race. Arizona State was victorious with 109 points.
In the '98 Griak Invitational, the women's team finished 16th in a field of 18 teams, compared to this year's 32-team race. Heather Johnson was the team leader then with a time of 18:47 she finished 67th in the 5K race. Pardue's time may have been three minutes slower this time, but the 6K field of competitors was wider.
Women's 6K Team Scores: 1. Arizona State, 109, 2. Providence College, 139, 3. Arizona, 167, 4. CSU, 188, 5. Michigan State, 194, 6. Virginia, 212, 7. Washington, 214, 8. UCLA, 276, 9. Marquette, 300, 10. James Madison, 306, 11. Columbia, 343, 12. Minnesota, 367, 13. Missouri-Columbia, 380, 14. Georgia Tech, 406, 15. Duke, 440, 16. Northwestern, 451, 17. Weber State, 458, 18. Wake Forest, 462, 19. Univ. of Toledo, 463, 20. Miami (Ohio), 469, 21. Penn State, 475, 22. Kent State, 485, 23. Illinois, 507, 24. Washington State, 628, 25. Air Force, 634, *26. Nebraska, 663, *26. Indiana Univ., 663, 28. Univ. of Oregon, 735, 29. Iowa State, 744, 30. Coastal Carolina, 772, 31. Army, 807, 32. Youngstown State, 1002.
