Nov. 15, 2004

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Miami Completes Season with 12th-Place Finish at NCAA Great Lakes Regional: Miami wrapped up its 2004 season on Saturday at the NCAA Great Lakes Regional at the Eagle Crest Golf Course in Ypsilanti, Mich. For the third time this season, Jennie Stoll was the first Miamian across the tape. She finished the 6K race 27th overall in 21:07.3. Miami's other finishers were Carol Eckerly (65th, 21:42.7), Sarah Henize (88th, 22:11.9), Kristen Proach (91st, 22:14.4), Kelly Ardelean (93rd, 22:14.7), Mia Fiegelist (94th, 22:15.4) and Tricia Frisella (135th, 23:13.4).

Talented Rookies: Miami's first four runners at the NCAA Great Lakes Regional were all in their first season in a RedHawk uniform, completing a string that began in the season's first race. Four times this year, all five of Miami's scorers have been in their first year with the program, and in all seven races, a true freshman has been Miami's top finisher. Jennie Stoll and Carol Eckerly have been the first and second Miamians across the tape in all six races, Eckerly first four times and Stoll first twice. Though the RedHawks had the potential for five true freshmen to score, with Sarah Henize, Tricia Frisella and Mia Fiegelist all straight out of high school, academic junior Kristen Proach, in her first year with the program, has scored in six of the seven meets. Among the true freshmen, Frisella scored six times, Henize scored five times and Fiegelist once.

Great Lakes Region Represented at NCAA Championship: Notre Dame and Michigan earned the Great Lakes region's automatic berths to the NCAA Championship, and four more teams earned at-large berths. Butler, Indiana, Marquette and Michigan State give the region six teams in the 31-team field in Terre Haute, Ind., on Nov. 22. Four more runners earned individual bids, as 38 runners complement the 31 teams of seven that qualified, for a total of 255 participants at next Monday's meet.