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...Canadian freshman Kat Wiley and junior standout Darlene Beckford--last year's collegiate indoor champion at 800 meters--the Crimson runners managed to grab eight of the top ten places with a convincing display of depth and speed...
...good news is that senior captain Kristin Linsley and junior Darlene Beckford, the one-two punch that last year took the Harvard women's cross country team to the Nationals for the first time ever, are both back this fall...
Performing in near-freezing rainy weather, the Harvard team succeeded without its full lineup. Standout Darlene Beckford, who won the national indoor 800-meter championship was out with a knee injury, and miler Mary Herlihy was sidelined with hip problems. And last but not least, a test sufficed to put Kim Johnson, the team's foremost shot putter, out of action...
Injuries also hurt the thinclads' finish in the meet, Hunt said. He predicted that if Darlene F. Beckford '82, who was grounded in Cambridge with a bum knee, had been able to compete. "She would have easily won the 1500- and 800-meter races, giving us 14 or 15 more points," and moving Harvard's team score into second place...
...Crimson, however, again contributed the only two American women's victories. with Darlene Beckford copping the 800 in 2:11--four seconds off her Harvard record--and Mary Herlihy winning the mile in 4:58. For Herlihy, the victory represents a propitious omen since it came in her first outdoor race after a one-year layoff...