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 Rachelle Malette was the 2007 Great Lakes Regional individual champion. |
Nov. 3, 2007
Edwardsville, Ill. - The Wayne State University women's cross country team qualified for the NCAA Championship meet (on Saturday, Nov. 17 in Joplin, Mo.) by finishing second out of 22 schools at the NCAA Great Lakes Regional championship meet held on Saturday at Southern Illinois-Edwardsville.
This will be WSU's first trip as a team to the national championship meet since 2003. The year prior, the Warriors had the best finish in school history (9th) at the 2002 NCAA meet.
Junior Rachelle Malette (Windsor, Ont./Holy Names) continued her amazing season by winning the regional 6k race (21:12.33) by nearly 20 seconds over Jessica Lamp from Wisconsin-Parkside (21:32.24). Malette has won five of the six races she has entered this year with her lone non-victorious race coming in the Louisville Classic where she finished third behind a University of Louisville runner and the champion from Rend Lake College.
Also contributing to WSU's successful team finish were freshman Lauren Kessler (Ionia, Mich.), who placed 22nd in a time of 22:47.85; graduate student Tracy Egnatuk (Albion, Mich.), who was 24th (22:48.92); freshman Allison Wykle (Trenton, Mich.), who was 33rd (23:03.34); and senior Kara Kessler (Ionia, Mich.), who was 37th (23:06.76).
Freshman Brittany Colley (Ionia, Mich.) was 66th (23:42.95), while freshman Annie Magin (Richland, Mich./Gull Lake) was 91st (24:10.34) out of 153 runners.
