Women’s Cross Country Claims 10th Place at Boston Coast-to-Coast Meet

Friday, September 25

Boston, Mass.

3:00 PM

University of New Hampshire

Boston Coast-To-Coast Meet

Photo by: Bob O'Rourk

Women’s Cross Country Claims 10th Place at Boston Coast-to-Coast Meet

9/25/2015 6:27:00 PM | Women's Cross Country

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – Senior Laura Rose Donegan (Melbourne, Australia) finished 17^th overall out of 206 athletes to lead the University of New Hampshire women's cross country team to a 10^th place finish (275 points) at the Boston Coast-to-Coast meet, Friday afternoon at Boston College.

New Hampshire's 10^th place finish was out of the 24 programs competing on the day, including four America East members (University at Albany, Stony Brook University, UMass Lowell, University of Hartford and the University of Maine). UAlbany placed 13^th (342 points), Stony Brook 14^th (356 points), UMass Lowell earned 16^th place (474 points) while Hartford and Maine finished 22^nd (678 points) and 24^th (731 points), respectively.

"We did not have a good start," said head coach Robert Hoppler. "We ran very well in the second half of the race and fought hard to finish 10^th overall. I am very happy with the team's competitive effort today."

The seniors raced well on the afternoon as Donegan ran a 17 minute, 28.0 second 5K race to lead all Wildcats. Amber Short (Keene, N.H.) placed 27^th overall, breaking the tape in 17:38.0. Samantha Blais (Lyndeborough, N.H.) and Brianna Boden (Keene, N.H.) placed 74^th (18:10.0) and 76^th (18:12.0) overall, respectively.

Junior Sarah Keiran (Rowley, Mass.) earned an 84^th place finish (18:15.0) followed by freshman Shannon Murdock (Exeter, N.H.) who placed 89^th with a time of 18:21.0. Rounding out the top-7 Wildcat finishers was junior Hannah Kimball (Atkinson, N.H.) who collected a 102^nd finish (18:30.0).

This meet gives the team a great boost heading into the championship half of the season.

Up next, New Hampshire will compete at the New England Championships (Oct. 10) following a 15-day break from competition.

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