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Last year, close friends and fierce competitors--Jenny Stricker and Kate Wiley--spent their freshman seasons as cross country runners shattering records and swapping first place finishes back and forth. Yesterday, in New York's sun-speckled Van Cortlandt Park they dredged up those memories as Harvard stomped all over seven other contenders to recapture the laurels in the Ivy League Championships...
Although rabbit-like Stricker held the lead throughout most of the tortuous, 3.1 mile course. Wiley--her determined, lanky room-mate--surged ahead in the final 600 meters to take first place with a time of 17:09. Wiley's clocking, though not a course record, is a new mark for Ivy competition in the Park by almost a minute...
Wiley's New York win is the first for her this fall Hampered by a wisdom tooth operation in September, her comeback has been slow, but steady. Thus far, Stricker has dominated most of the season's competition, capped by a spectacular, record-setting effort in Franklin Park last week at the Harvard-Princeton-Yale meet...
Sophomore Jenny Stricker took first in 18:15, Classmate Kathy Goode followed close behind to finish third' with a time of 18:36. Ellen Gallager, who took last semester off from running, finished fourth. Placing sixth for the harriers was freshman Leslie Cooper, with a time...
Last fall, Beckford, Wiley and Stricker formed a powerful triumverte that successfully knocked off most competition. This year it appears Brommer and the two sophomores oculd be an even more exciting trio, with comparable performances and times spurring them on to new heights...