May 28, 2009

ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Navy senior Carey Young (Virginia Beach, Va. / Ocean Lakes) will test her might against the East's elite steeplechasers this weekend at the NCAA Regional Track Championship in Greensboro, N.C.

Young will compete amongst 13 runners in the first of three sections (there are 46 total entries) of the women's 3,000m steeplechase on Saturday, beginning at 7:15 pm.

She qualified for this weekend's regional championship with a 10-minute, 49.92-second clocking at Princeton's Larry Ellis Invitational on April 17. The performance came while running the steeplechase for just the fifth time in her career and currently stands as the fourth-best mark in program history.

With the effort, Young, who owns three of the top-10 all-time Navy showings, ranks as the school's second-fastest steeplechaser, behind only former standout Amy Baxter ('01).

This spring, she has produced three individual victories in the steeplechase, including her first career league title at April's Patriot League Outdoor Championship. During this winter's indoor season, Young was a key point-scorer for the Mids at the league championship, finishing third in the 5,000m and taking sixth in the 3,000m.

The top-five finishers will earn an automatic berth into the NCAA Championship two weekends from now in Fayetteville, Ark., on June 10-13. A handful of at-large spots will also be awarded to athletes from a national pool to fill out the championship field.

Young is aiming to become the second Navy women's track competitor in program history to qualify for the NCAA Championship and the first since Kim McGreevy did so in 1995. McGreevy brought home All-America honors in the 3,000-meter run during the 1995 indoor championship.

Women's 3000 Meter Steeplechase
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     Name                        Year School                 Seed
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Section 1  Timed Finals
  1  Michaeline Nelson             SO Brown              10:48.56
  2  Beatrice Biwott               FR S. Carolina        10:48.77
  3  Maura Carroll                 SO Cornell            10:50.20
  4  Annelore Desaedeleer          JR Iona               10:47.48
  5  Zsanett Kis                   SR High Point         10:56.41
  6  Carey Young                   SR Navy               10:49.92
  7  Julie Quinn                   SO Columbia           10:48.14
  8  Aspen Foster                  SR JMU                10:47.85
  9  Siobhan Dwyer                 JR Iona               11:05.49
 10  Krystle Medlin                SR Hampton            11:29.75
 11  Kari Higdem                   SR Columbia           10:47.75
 12  Abigail Gosling               SR Quinnipiac         11:04.59
 13  Paola Reategui                SR FL Intn'l          10:47.59
Section 2  Timed Finals
  1  Laura Cummings                JR Albany             10:40.64
  2  Meghan Cunningham             SO Connecticut        10:40.15
  3  Carolina Cortes               SO Stony Brook        10:43.86
  4  Sydney Fitzpatrick            FR New Hampshire      10:47.41
  5  Keara Thomas                  SO Charlotte          10:39.47
  6  Mary Kate DuBard              FR Ga Tech            10:46.04
  7  Amanda Quick                  JR Fla State          10:43.70
  8  Erin Roberts                  JR Cornell            10:40.05
  9  Kristen Reed                  JR Maryland           10:41.84
 10  Heather Stephens              FR Syracuse           10:37.50
 11  Rebekah MacKay                FR Syracuse           10:36.04
 12  Lise Ogrodnick                JR Georgetown         10:39.76
 13  Cheryl Spring                 JR Penn St.           10:37.85
 14  Elizabeth Foster              SR Hartford           10:43.30
 15  Alison Spiker                 SR West Virginia      10:38.36
Section 3  Timed Finals
  1  Sarah Morrison                SO Villanova          10:12.65
  2  Hannah Davidson               FR Providence         10:15.97
  3  Nicol Traynor                 SO Richmond           10:28.46
  4  Stephanie Pancoast            JR Cornell            10:11.95
  5  Lydia Willemse                SR Fla State          10:05.36
  6  Samantha Stafford             SO Virginia           10:36.02
  7  Betsy Graney                  SO William & Mary     10:15.99
  8  Kara McKenna                  SO NC State           10:31.06
  9  Addie Bracy                   SR North Carolina     10:19.21
 10  Genevieve LaCaze              FR Florida            10:26.92
 11  Natalie Busby                 FR Syracuse           10:33.45
 12  Friederike Feil               JR FL Atlantic        10:33.82
 13  Julie Northrup                JR Florida            10:31.59
 14  Ashley Higginson              SO Princeton          10:24.98
 15  Stephanie Garcia              JR Virginia           10:08.48
 16  Lauren Gregory                JR Georgetown         10:15.05
 17  Bridget Franek                JR Penn St.            9:43.57
 18  Patricia Loughlin             SR Duke               10:09.77

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