HAVERFORD, Pa. – The Haverford College women's cross country team, coming off a third place finish at the Centennial Conference Championship this past Saturday, is ranked No. 29 in the latest release of the US Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches' Poll. The Fords picked up 54 voting points in the latest release.
Junior Nora Weathers earned second-team All-Centennial Conference honors as she placed 10th overall in the conference field on a wet, rainy day on the Alumni Cross Country Course. Charlotte Lellman (16th), Kelley Riffenburgh (17th), and Maggie Heffernan (20th) gave the Fords four runners in the top 20.
That conference race also provided Haverford what should be a good test of the competition they will face in the upcoming Mideast Regional. Johns Hopkins, the 2014 Centennial Conference Champion, is currently ranked No. 1 in the region and the nation with all of the first place votes in both polls.
Dickinson finished second in the Centennial Championship and is ranked third in the region and 19th in the NCAA. Swarthmore finished fourth in the conference meet and is ranked sixth in the latest regional rankings. Elizabethtown (second in region) and Carnegie Mellon (fifth in region) comprise the remaining top five teams that will compete in the Mideast Regional next weekend.
The 2014 Mideast Regional will be held in Newville, Pa. next Saturday, November 15. The women's race will begin at noon with the top two teams from that regional earning an automatic bid to the NCAA Championship.