JMU Finishes Third at JMU Invitational

Saturday, September 14

New Market, Va.

10 a.m.

James Madison University

JMU Invitational

9/14/2019 3:19:00 PM | Cross Country

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NEW MARKET, Va. – On a cloudy morning, James Madison cross country hosted their annual JMU Invitational at New Market Battlefield. Hosting at the site of the CAA Championship for this season, four other Colonial Athletic Association teams were present.

JMU finished third out of the six teams with 67 points. Elon won the event with 32 points, Delaware was second with 41. Following JMU was Towson (109), College of Charleston (138) and VMI (157).

Early in the race, a large front pack stuck together through the 1M mark with 18 runners within two seconds of each other and 8 within one second. Elon's Scolasticah Kemei split apart from the park at the 3.5K mark and continued in front as she won the women's 6K. Webb was able to stay within the top-10 throughout the race finishing sixth.

Brooke Manion and Caitlin Swanson sat solidly in the middle of the pack to start. They both moved up past runners when they hit the 3.5 mark. Both finished in the top-15 to help JMU finish third. Sinead Sargeant moved past nine runner in the final stretch to hit a personal best time in the race.

JMU Runners: Out of 60 Runners

Place	Name	Time
6th	Laura Webb	21:50.5
13^th	Brooke Manion	22:11.0
14^th	Caitlin Swanson	22:11.2
17^th	Maddy Hesler	22:31.7
22^nd	Megan Keady	22:42.9
24^th	McKenzi Watkins	22:52.4
25^th	Sophie Bollinger	23:00.8
26^th	Sinead Sargeant	23:01.0
29^th	Sophie Hudak	23:06.4
33^rd	Clare Morelli	23:15.3
34^th	Averi Witt	23:15.9
42^nd	Katie Fox	24:01.1
51^st	Annie Dunlop	25:16.9

MEET NOTES

Six straight years of finishing top-3 at the JMU Invitational
JMU has finished in the Top-3 at the JMU Invitational every year of hosting the event since 2002 (the event was not run in 2013)
Second meet with Laura Webb leading the way for JMU
This was the first collegiate 6K for Webb, Hesler, Keady, Watkins, Hudak, Morelli and Dunlop.
Brooke Manion set a new personal record, which she had last set at the CAA Championship last year
Sinead Sargeant also set a new personal best 6K time. Her previous record was set last season at the CAA Championship
The Dukes defeated Towson and College of Charleston of CAA teams present
The CAA Championship is set to be run at New Market on November 2, 2019.

QUOTING COACH DAVE RINKER
"We did some good things today. We followed the race plan and we raced hard. We have been working extremely hard and some are struggling with the work load. However, if we can fight through this we have a chance to be pretty good."

UP NEXT
JMU will rest for the next week before heading the Charlotte, N.C. for the Queens City Invitational on Friday, September 27 at 5 p.m.