BETHLEHEM, Pa. – The No. 13 Haverford College women's cross country team placed eighth overall in a field of 40 teams at Lehigh's Paul Short Invitational. The Fords competed in the Brown Race on Saturday and had four individuals place among the top 100 finishers in a race that featured 360 entrants.

Nora Weathers led the Fords to the finish line as she placed 45th overall in the field and finished in a time of 22:41. Right behind her was Haverford's second and third runners in Maggie Heffernan and Kelley Riffenburgh. Heffernan (22:50) and Riffenburgh (22:54) finished 57th and 68th, respectively.

Seniors Charlotte Lellman and Katherine Greifeld finished as the Fords' fourth and fifth runners in the field. Lellman finished in a time of 23:12, placing 98th overall in the field as the final Fords' runner in the top 100 finishers. Greifeld ran the best race of her career, cutting nearly two full minutes off her previous personal best at the 6,000-meter distance. She set her previous best at this same meet during the 2013 season.

Five freshmen rounded out the Fords' finishers in the Brown Race. Nicole Giannetti finished 117th in a time of 23:20 in her first career 6K at the collegiate level, while Katie Sullivan improved her personal best from earlier in the season by 34 seconds as she placed 126th in a time of 23:25. MaryKate Cavanaugh (23:38), Amelia Keyser-Gibson (24:00) and Sarah Wade (24:31) also ran in the Brown Race for Haverford. Cavanaugh and Wade each ran personal bests, while Keyser-Gibson was running her first collegiate 6K.

Haverford also entered eight individuals into the open race and found great success with three individuals setting personal bests in that race. Alison Love (24:14) was the first of those personal bests as she placed 155th as the Fords' top finisher. Allison Hacker (26:04) and Liana Alves (28:25) also set new personal bests on Saturday.

In her first collegiate 6,000-meter race, Amelia Williams finished in a time of 24:21. Molly Allen finished just 10 seconds behind her in 172nd place, while Margaret Duffy was the Fords' fourth finisher in the open event with a time of 25:35. Sophomores Amanda Glavin (28:27) and Rebecca Fisher (29:50) rounded out the Fords' contingent in the open race.

Women's cross cross country will now take the upcoming week away from competition. The Fords will be back in two weeks as they head to the Princeton Invitational on Saturday, October 18. That meet is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m.