Women's Cross Country Ranked Eighth in National Poll

Nov. 4, 2003

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Providence College women's cross country team remained No. 8 in the latest FinishLynx Division I Women's Cross Country Poll, which was released on November 4.

Providence received 292 points after finishing second at the BIG EAST Championship on Friday, October 31 at Van Cortlandt Park in Bronx, N.Y. The Friars were led by juniors Kimberly Smith (Auckland, New Zealand) and Mary Cullen (Sligo, Ireland), who finished first and second, respectively. Smith's time of 20:01 set a BIG EAST course record in the event. Smith beat the previous course record set by Catherine Guiney of Boston College in 2001 by three seconds, as Guiney finished the championship that season in 20:04. She also became the sixth female runner in PC history to win the BIG EAST crown and the first since Sara Dupre won it in 1998

Stanford (387 points) kept its hold on the top spot with 10 of 13 first-place votes. Brigham Young (380 points), North Carolina (362 points), Notre Dame (345 points) and North Carolina State (341 points) round out the top five.

The Friars return to action on Saturday, November 15 at the NCAA Northeast Regional at Franklin Park in Boston, Mass.


FinishLynx NCAA DIVISION I WOMEN'S NCAA CROSS COUNTRY POLLNovember 4, 2003Rank    Team (First place votes)         Points1   Stanford (10)                    3872   Brigham Young (3)                3803   North Carolina                   3624   Notre Dame                       3455   North Carolina State             3416   Colorado                         3117   Michigan                         3088   PROVIDENCE                       2929   Columbia                         26910  Northern Arizona                 26511  Arizona State                    26412  Michigan State                   25413  Wake Forest                      24114  Princeton                        23415  UCLA                             21316  Georgetown                       20517  Penn State                       17118  Baylor                           15819  Marquette                        15020  Missouri                         14221  Villanova                        12422  Colorado State                   12023  UC Santa Barbara                 9924  Tennessee                        8725  Duke                             6826  Boston College                   6027  Nevada                           5828  Florida State                    3229  Ball State                       2730  Texas Christian                  18

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Women's Cross Country Ranked Eighth in National Poll

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