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Kroshus competes at 2001 NCAA Cross Country Championships

Sophomore Emily Kroshus finished her 2001 season alone at the 2001 NCAA Cross Country Championships at Furman University. Kroshus, who was the top finisher for Princeton in all of the Tigers' races this season, was the only member of the team to qualify for the event. Kroshus finished the course in 22 minutes, 20 seconds, good for 124th in a field of 249 competitors.

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Tara Chaplin of Arizona was the top individual finisher at the event. Her time of 20:24 broke Washington's Sabrina Monro and North Carolina's Shalane Flanagan's 6K course record by two seconds, and was seven seconds ahead of the second-place finisher, Georgia Tech's Renee Metivier.

Yale's Kate O'Neill finished 11th with a time of 20:58, while her sister Laura O'Neill was close behind in a time of 21:13.

Brigham Young captured the women's team title in dominating fashion. The Cougars won by 86 points over second-place North Carolina State. BYU, ranked second behind Stanford coming into the race, had five runners place in the top 25. The Cougars' highest finisher was Michaela Manova at No. 5 in a time of 20:42.

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