Ritter, Stanley Shine At NCAA Regional
Senior Carrie Ritter and freshman Emma Stanley ran to All-Mid East Regional status, leading Swarthmore to a fifth-place finish at the 2005 NCAA Mid-East Regional Cross Country Championship in Carlisle, Pa. on Saturday morning.
Ritter and Stanley finished among the top 35 runners out of 292 participants to make All-Region. Stanley was the third freshman runner to cross the finish line, earning All-Freshman Region honors.
Ritter closed out her Garnet running career with a top-flight performance on the 6K course , finishing 17th in a time of 23:17.9. The senior earned her second consecutive All-Region selection and missed getting one of the coveted individual national-qualifier spots by approximately nine seconds.
Stanley capped her strong freshman campaign by clocking in at 23:25.2 to finish 22nd overall.
Three seniors continued the balanced scoring for Swarthmore; Lauren Fety '06 ran 43rd in a time of 24:14.6, Debbie Farrelly '06 checked in 59th with a time of 24:36.5, while classmate Emily Wistar was right behind in 60th position (24:37.3).
Sophomore Kavita Hardy came in 98th place (25:14.8) and freshman Bess Ritter finished in 111th (25:28.1) to complete the scoring for the Garnet.
Swarthmore collected a total of 201 team points to finish behind defending champion Dickinson (27 points), Haverford (148), Elizabethtown (162), and Grove City (188).