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...that time, the future looked as bright as it ever had. The Crimson (25-8 overall, 2-2 Ivy) had lost only one runner from a 1993 team which had finished second at the Heptagonals behind a Cornell team that would go on to finish fourth at the NCAA championships. What's more, the team seemed to have a number of solid freshman coming in to provide depth to a strong leadership corps of juniors and seniors...
After that, a flood of weird injuries seemed to hamper the team--from Gritschel's back sprain, sustained early in the season, to number-one runner karen Goetz' ankle sprain, sustained the night before the Heptagonals when she tripped over a rock on practice...
...Kelts was the toughest runner I have never seen," Hickey says. "He ran so damn hard in practice and in races that the rest of us couldn't help but run our skulls out. He was a great example and, all-around, he was the best captain I've ever...
After two-straight Eastern championships the two years before last and a runner-up finish last season, this year seemed, well--at the risk of sounding too greedy, a little bit blah...
...from there on, things started to go bad. Cruz, the captain and star jumper, went down with pulled ligaments in her ankle. Then, trying to compensate for a stress fracture in one leg, sophomore Amanda Williams pulled a ligament. And then, the team heard word that standout freshman distance runner Karen Goetze would be unable to perform in the meet, the victim of a stress fracture...