Moore races to All-America finish at cross country nationals
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| A muddy Kathryn Moore ’07 (right) poses with Bates head coach Jay Hartshorn after her outstanding performance Saturday in West Chester, Ohio. (Photo by Patrick Wales-Dinan) |
WEST CHESTER, Ohio — Bates College senior Kathryn Moore finished 32nd overall out of 279 runners at the NCAA Division III Women’s Cross Country Championships on Saturday, and eighth out of the at-large contingent.
By placing among the top 35 runners, Moore earns All-America honors.
The event, hosted by Wilmington College at Voice of America Park, was riddled with an uncommonly slow, mucky course thanks to heavy rains in recent days in southwestern Ohio. Moore (Pelham, N.H.) finished the 6 kilometers in 23:50, and may have turned the course conditions into her own advantage, said head coach Jay Hartshorn.
“It was one of those days where you can be hesitant, or you can accept that there’s going to be a lot of mud and nobody’s going to run a fast time, and go out and get after it, and that’s what Kathryn did,” said Hartshorn.
Moore becomes the first Bates female to earn NCAA All-America honors in cross country since Adelia Myrick ’99 did it in 1996, and the fourth in school history. Moore also becomes the first Bates female to become All-American in both cross country and track and field. She won All-America honors in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the 2006 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships.