Minster OH junior Sunni Olding came up with a PR and the biggest win
of her career. Olding sat on pace setter Katie Harrington's shoulder through
the middle four laps in the 80-second range. Olding stepped up the pace
and took the lead on lap 7 and then held off the Indiana junior's counter
attack in the stretch by less than a second. They covered the last 800
meters in 2:26.
From
laps 3 through 6, Harrington led (below) with Olding right
behind. Then, on lap 7, Olding moved on top (right).
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Harrington
rallies gamely in the stretch (below), but Olding prevails
(right).
photo by John Dye |
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Red Bank NJ sr Kathleen Trotter edged Smoky Hill Aurora CO soph Katelyn
Kaltenbach by 0.06 second for third.
Kathleen Trotter
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Katelyn Kaltenbach
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SteveU's account
by Stephen (SteveU) Underwood
With no one really threatening sub-10:20 in this race and with an evenly-matched
field, the pace quickly settled into circuits at or around 80 seconds.
Katie Harrington (Carmel, IN), who certainly was one of the co-favorites,
did the field a favor by taking the pace.
Much of the 16-runner field stayed together for some time, but finally
a group of 6 broke off, including Harrington, Sunni Olding (Minister,
OH), Katy and Amanda Trotter (Little Silver, NJ), Katelyn Kaltenbach (Aurora,
CO) and Jenny Morgan (Barnesville, OH).
In the last 880, with Olding pushing her every step of the way, Harrington
finally started to gap the rest of her pursuers – a surprise given
the PRs of a few of the others. With 220 left, it still looked like Harrington,
but Olding showed more speed on the final straight and surged through
for a surprising triumph. She covered the final 880 in 2:25.
Olding, whose previous PR was 10:32 for 3200, definitely knew she’d
pulled off an upset. “I’m just so amazed!” she said.
“If you had asked me 2 hours ago if I was going to win the national
championship tonight, I would have said you’re full of it. I just
really feel like once I got in this race, I just felt it and just went
after it.”
The senior also acknowledged the pace played into her hands. “I
was kind of surprised it went out pretty slow. I was a little afraid like,
I don’t know if I should take this lead I wasn’t really a
favorite. … Katie did a great job, but … Just in the past
year, I’ve worked on my kick a lot. Before that it seemed like I
got beat out in the kick, but I really started focusing on that. Once
it gets so close to a national title, it’s hard to let it go.”
For her part, Harrington was oh, so mindful of what she had set up. Was
she cautious because of the warmth and humidity? “Maybe that was
it. I expected it to be a lot faster. I remember how it started out slow
at Arcadia and I was upset at that, so I came back home and thought why
I expected someone else to take over, so here I tried to do something
about that, early on.”
But a leader, if they are going to win, usually has to break the field
at some point. “I might have broken away, but it was a little harder
mentally than I thought it would be,” she said. “The kick
is kind of my weak spot. … I guess it wasn’t my night.”
Anatomy of the Race
Splits are at finish line; first "lap" was 418 meters, the
rest 400m.
Lap |
elapsed |
lap split |
leader |
1 |
77.6 |
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Harrington |
2 |
2:38.4 |
80.8 |
Beury |
3 |
3:59.5 |
81.1 |
Harrington |
4 |
5:19.1 |
79.6 |
Harrington |
5 |
6:38.9 |
79.8 |
Harrington |
6 |
7:59.5 |
80.6 |
Harrington |
7 |
9:15.1 |
75.6 |
Olding |
8 |
10:25.82 |
70.7 |
Olding |
Results
C.F.P.I. Timing & Data MANAGER 9:19 PM 6/13/2003 Page 1 adidas Outdoor Track and Field Championships - 6/13/2003 to 6/14/2003 North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC Results Event 12 Girls 2 Mile Run ================================================================ Fastest section Fri at 9:35pm; all others Fri at 7:45pm National: ! 10:01.08 6/14/2002 Molly Huddle, Notre Dame, Meet: @ 10:01.08 6/14/2002 Molly Huddle, Notre Dame, Freshman: # 10:20.69 1979 Vicki Cook, Alemany, CA (3 Sophomore: $ 10:09.0h 1981 Patty Matava, Bellevue, WA Junior: % 10:03.0h 1984 Suzie Tuffey, Bergan Peori Senior: * 10:01.08 6/14/2002 Molly Huddle, Notre Dame, Name Year School Finals ================================================================ Section 1 1 Jennifer Barringer 05 Oviedo, FL 10:50.37 2 Caitlin Chrisman 04 Carbondale, IL 10:52.66 3 Carmen Mims 05 Louisville, KY 11:00.47 4 Elle Pishny 03 Stilwell, KS 11:02.03 5 Kelley Taylor 03 Virginia Beach, VA 11:02.26 6 Shauneen Garrahan 03 Fairfax Station, VA 11:02.94 7 Laura Bowerman 04 Temple Terrace, AL 11:03.72 8 Madonna Schueler 04 Louisville, KY 11:08.97 9 Aislinn Ryan 06 Warwick Valley, NY 11:11.56 10 Ashley Wolf 04 Pinebrook, NJ 11:12.91 11 Lindsey Ferguson 06 Greenfield, NY 11:17.17 -- Erin Enderly 04 Ocean, NJ DNF -- Amanda Bodette 04 East Middlebury, VT DNS -- Tiare Ferguson 04 Santa Barbara, CA DNS Section 2 1 Sunni Olding 04 Minister, OH 10:25.82 2 Katie Harrington 04 Carmel, IN 10:26.41 3 Kathleen Trotter 03 Little Silver, NJ 10:30.47 4 Katelyn Kaltenbach 05 Aurora, CO 10:30.53 5 Jenny Morgan 06 Barnesville, OH 10:31.25 6 Amanda Trotter 03 Little Silver, NJ 10:40.48 7 Alissa McKaig 04 New Haven, IN 10:43.90 8 Jennifer Boyd 03 Chesapeake, VA 10:50.15 9 Corey Randall 03 Cincinatti, OH 10:50.63 10 Angela Bizzarri 06 Mason, OH 10:54.16 11 Jennifer Beury 04 Roanoke, VA 10:54.24 12 Meredith Snow 06 Eureka, MO 10:55.15 13 Connie Abbott 04 Overland Prk, KS 10:59.40 14 Kylee Schuler 04 Chambersburg, TX 11:03.73 15 Emily Harrison 04 Front Royal, VA 11:09.98 16 Frances Koons 04 Allentown, NJ 11:10.71 -- Joy Griffith 03 Tuscaloosa, AL DNS Event 12 Girls 2 Mile Run ================================================================ Name Year School Finals ================================================================ Finals 1 Sunni Olding 04 Minister, OH 10:25.82 2 Katie Harrington 04 Carmel, IN 10:26.41 3 Kathleen Trotter 03 Little Silver, NJ 10:30.47 4 Katelyn Kaltenbach 05 Aurora, CO 10:30.53 5 Jenny Morgan 06 Barnesville, OH 10:31.25 6 Amanda Trotter 03 Little Silver, NJ 10:40.48 7 Alissa McKaig 04 New Haven, IN 10:43.90 ....Event 12 Girls 2 Mile Run 8 Jennifer Boyd 03 Chesapeake, VA 10:50.15 9 Jennifer Barringer 05 Oviedo, FL 10:50.37 10 Corey Randall 03 Cincinatti, OH 10:50.63 11 Caitlin Chrisman 04 Carbondale, IL 10:52.66 12 Angela Bizzarri 06 Mason, OH 10:54.16 13 Jennifer Beury 04 Roanoke, VA 10:54.24 14 Meredith Snow 06 Eureka, MO 10:55.15 15 Connie Abbott 04 Overland Prk, KS 10:59.40 16 Carmen Mims 05 Louisville, KY 11:00.47 17 Elle Pishny 03 Stilwell, KS 11:02.03 18 Kelley Taylor 03 Virginia Beach, VA 11:02.26 19 Shauneen Garrahan 03 Fairfax Station, VA 11:02.94 20 Laura Bowerman 04 Temple Terrace, AL 11:03.72 21 Kylee Schuler 04 Chambersburg, TX 11:03.73 22 Madonna Schueler 04 Louisville, KY 11:08.97 23 Emily Harrison 04 Front Royal, VA 11:09.98 24 Frances Koons 04 Allentown, NJ 11:10.71 25 Aislinn Ryan 06 Warwick Valley, NY 11:11.56 26 Ashley Wolf 04 Pinebrook, NJ 11:12.91 27 Lindsey Ferguson 06 Greenfield, NY 11:17.17 -- Erin Enderly 04 Ocean, NJ DNF -- Joy Griffith 03 Tuscaloosa, AL DNS -- Tiare Ferguson 04 Santa Barbara, CA DNS -- Amanda Bodette 04 East Middlebury, VT DNS
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