Stanhope's Top-20 Finish Highlights JMU at Paul Short Run

Friday, October 1

Bethlehem, Pa.

10 a.m.

James Madison University

Paul Short Run

Stanhope's Top-20 Finish Highlights JMU at Paul Short Run

10/1/2021 1:56:00 PM | Cross Country

BETHLEHEM, Pa. – James Madison cross country finished 18th as a team, and sophomore Miranda Stanhope registered a top-20 individual finish to highlight the Dukes at the 47th annual Paul Short Run on Friday morning at Lehigh University's Goodman Cross Country Course.

Stanhope led the Dukes with a 16th-place finish in the women's college Gold 6K race, which featured 341 entrants. She recorded a 6K personal-best time of 20:26.3 and was a little more than 30 seconds off the individual champion's lead pace.

The Dukes finished 18th in the 38-team field, producing 554 points.

Graduate student Brooke Manion was in second for JMU, taking 125th place (116th scoring) with her time of 21:52.2. Junior Laura Webb clocked a personal-best time of 22:03.0, good for 145th place (131st scoring).

Rounding out JMU's scoring runners were juniors Clare Morelli and Jessica Cantrell. Morelli turned in a personal-best mark of 22:08.3 to claim 154th place (140th scoring), while Cantrell completed the course in her record time of 22:14.9 to take 166th (151st scoring).

Other Dukes in the Gold race included junior Maddy Hesler (22:16, 170th), graduate student Caitlin Swanson (22:20.6, 178th), junior McKenzi Watkins (23:17.2, 272nd) and freshman Riley Schindel (23:32.7, 291st).

In the women's 6K open race, five Dukes competed in the 291-person race, with all finishing in the top 100.

Senior Lanie Jo Knight paced the group, finishing in 64th with a time of 23:47.0. Fractions of a second later, senior Sinead Sargeant crossed the finish line in 65th in 23:47.3.

Other Open race finishers were freshman Sierra Puleo (23:54.8, 69th) senior Meredith Beaver (24:07.5, 80th) and freshman Mary Milby (24:11.3, 86th).

QUOTING DAVE RINKER
"Miranda just ran unbelievable. We've come here a lot and that was the second-fastest time ever by a JMU runner for the 6K course. Only Alison Paris has run faster on this course. She personifies race intelligence. She passed four people in the last 500 meters and all four of those people are really good.

The rest of the team, I thought we had some breakthrough races for the season. We had a few people who didn't have their best day today, so we need to figure out how they can have their best day when we need it. It's such a different race than we run the rest of the year. When the gun goes off and you have almost 400 people getting out crazy, you never know where you are in the race unless you're one of the top 20 or 30 people. As we get to conference, and even to Penn State, it'll be a smaller field, which will allow us to get into our groups and run off each other, and I think that will help us a lot."

47th Annual Paul Short Run Results
6K Gold Race (341 entries)
16th – Miranda Stanhope (20:26.3)
125th – Brooke Manion (21:52.2)
145th – Laura Webb (22:03.0)
154th – Clare Morelli (22:08.3)
166th – Jessica Cantrell (22:14.9)
170th – Maddy Hesler (22:16)
178th – Caitlin Swanson (22:20.6)
272nd – McKenzi Watkins (23:17.2)
291st – Riley Schindel (23:32.7)

6K Open Race (291 entries)
64th – Lanie Jo Knight (23:47.0)
65th – Sinead Sargeant (23:47.3)
69th – Sierra Puleo (23:54.8)
80th – Meredith Beaver (24:07.5)
86th – Mary Milby (24:11.3)