Emily Lipari Surges to NCAA #14 with Big PR at Columbia 3000Poised to Make Field at NCAA Indoor Nationals

Emily Lipari may have won herself a spot at the NCAA Indoor Nationals with a monster 11-second PR victory this evening at the Columbia Last Chance meet at her home away from home: the Armory in New York City.  Lipari won the race in 9:08.91.  Pending other results throughout the country today, that time puts Lipari at #14 in the country and part of the 16-person field at NCAA Indoor Nationals in Fayetteville. Her previous PR was 9:20.07, run at the Great Dane Classic at the same venue on January 18th.

3000m run
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    Name                    Year School                  Seed     Finals 
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  1       Lipari, Emily          Villanova            9:20.07    9:08.91  
  2       Crevoiserat, Linds     Connecticut          9:23.46    9:09.48  
  3       Adler, Monica          Unattached           9:06.00    9:10.87  
  4       Traynor, Nicol         New Jersey-N         9:05.00    9:19.07  
  5       Stevens, Joanna        Georgetown           9:45.95    9:40.28  
  6       Sara, Lauren           Connecticut          9:38.29    9:43.36  
  7       Fluehr, Erika          Princeton            9:51.83    9:48.46  
  8       Johnson, Jen           Unattached          10:03.20    9:52.62  
  9       May, Hilary            Georgetown R        10:13.13    9:52.96  
 10       Cotton, Sarah          Georgetown           9:53.34    9:59.79  
 11       Schustrom, Lexi        Columbia            10:00.00   10:03.38  
 12       Dinnan, Courtney       Unat-So. Con         9:35.00   10:05.13  
 13       Dengler, Molly         Columbia             9:40.00   10:13.53  
 --       Chambers, Madeline     Georgetown           9:09.20        DNF