Nov. 19, 2001

Complete Results

GREENVILLE, S.C. - Sophomore Andrea Kremer (Indianapolis, Ind./Bishop Chatard) earned all-America honors this afternoon at the NCAA Championship meet in Greenville, S.C. Kremer finished Furman University's 6,000-meter course in a 21:13 clocking to place 25th in a field of 249. All-America laurels go to the meet's top 30 finishers.

This was the second straight season in which Kremer gained all-America status, as she received the same distinction after finishing 11th in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the NCAA Track and Field Championship last spring.

On an unseasonably warm and clear day, Kremer jumped out to the front in the first half-mile, running with the top 20 or so competitors. At about the 1-1/2 mile mark, she started cramping up, which forced her to fall back as far as 43rd. By the time she reached three miles, she had climbed to 27th, and in the last half-mile she passed two more runners, for her 25th-place finish.

"Even though she was running at a phenomenal pace, she was able to control that phase of the race (when she was cramping) and get through it, whereas others might have panicked," head coach Rich Ceronie said.

In terms of individual finishers from the Mid-American Conference, Kremer was second only to Ball State's Stacey Ritz, who placed 16th.

In the 21 years of women's cross country in the MAC, Kremer is just the seventh conference female to be named an All-American in the sport. Miami's sixth NCAA qualifier in the last 10 years, she joins Melissa Mayers as the school's only female all-America cross country runners. Mayers accomplished the feat in 1996.

Kremer's performance at the national meet wraps up a superlative cross country season, in which she also was named all-MAC, following a sixth-place finish in Ypsilanti, Mich., and all-region, after taking seventh at the meet in Terre Haute, Ind. She was named MAC Women's Runner of the Week three times during the season.