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Colby ranked 5th in most recent 2005 NCAA Division III Women's Cross Country Poll2005 Season Preview With six of the top seven runners returning following the best season in school history in 2004, the Colby women’s cross-country team has high expectations in 2005. The Mules will look to win another Maine State title, finish in the top four at the NESCAC meet, finish in the top four at the New England Division III Championships, and return to the NCAA Division III Championships and finish in the top five. Senior tri-captains Hillary Easter, Jessica Minty, and Elizabeth Turner will lead the team. Easter (Jay, Maine) remained a top four to seven runner through last year and is coming off her strongest Nordic ski season and a highly successful outdoor track year. Turner (Cape Neddick, Maine) had a much-improved season a year ago. Although she spent her second semester in Australia, she will return with every intention of remaining in the top seven. Minty (Concord, Mass.) is the likely candidate to take over the lead position after her strong cross-country season and an amazing indoor season in which she broke three school records in the 800-meter run, 1,000-meter run, and mile. Minty went undefeated in the 800 meters and earned her first All-America honor, finishing second at the NCAA Indoor Championships. Junior Karen Prisby (Agawam, N.Y.) was the third Colby runner across the finish line at nationals and won most improved honors during the indoor track season. Sophomore Anna King (Greenland, N.H.) was second for Colby at nationals and had an equally impressive indoor track season while earning her second trip to national competition in the mile and an 11th -place finish. King is another likely candidate to challenge for the lead position. Elizabeth Petit (Grosse Pointe, Mich.), fifth for the team at nationals, had an impressive and very consistent cross-country season and showed steady improvement during the indoor and outdoor track seasons. In addition to the top six runners returning, the team has a strong group of runners returning who will be vying to break into the top seven pack: sophomores Shannon Burnham (Bailey's Island, Wis.), Sharon Fuller (Old Town, Maine), Megan Lehmann (Sitka, Alaska), Lane Marder (Weston, Mass.), and juniors Elizabeth Coogan (Concord, Mass.), Kirsten Davis (Franklin, Mass.), and Betsy Littlefield (Wellesley, Mass.). 2004 Season Recap
Deb Aitken, in her 20th year at Colby, was named New England Region Coach of the Year and NESCAC Coach of the Year. Aitken has taken five teams to the NCAA meet during her time with the Mules. Colby made it to the NCAA meet after placing third at the NCAA Division III New England Regional meet at Cumberland Center in Maine. The Mules beat then fifth-ranked Amherst at the meet. The team also placed fourth at the NESCAC Championships hosted by Colby. Senior Karina Johnson was the top runner for Colby in the second half of the season. Johnson earned NESCAC second team honors for taking 11th at the league meet. She was Colby's top finisher in 45th place at the NCAA meet. First-year runners Anna King and Elizabeth Petit both had fine seasons. King was 16th at the New England meet and 49th at the NCAA race. Junior Jess Minty was the top runner for the first part of the season. Sophomore Karen Prisby also had fine finishes for the Mules. Johnson, Torrey Kulow and Minty all earned NESCAC Fall All-Academic honors. Program OverviewColby's distance training program is divided into four or five phases, with each phase focused on the improvement of a different energy system. Workouts are designed to improve cellular adaptation and running economy, increase maximum oxygen capacity, and elevate lactate threshold. The emphasis is on individual development. Every effort is made to ensure that each individual is challenged without over- or under-training. Thanks to a gift from Judge and Mrs. Levin Campbell and their daughter Eleanor '81, Colby has developed five miles of running trails over the 714-acre Mayflower Hill campus. The wood-chipped and grass-covered trails have been the site of state, NESCAC, and ECAC championship races. The greater Waterville area is a runner's haven. In addition to the Campbell Trails, a variety of dirt roads within the Belgrade Lakes area, local golf courses, and area trails provide an array of soft surfaces and varying terrain on which to train and endless miles of breathtaking scenery that is hard for the running enthusiast to resist.
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Women's cross country finished fifth in the country at the NCAA Division III Championships in Colfax, Wisconsin. The Mules had their best finish ever at an NCAA meet.