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Eldridge Heads to Championship
November 16, 2007 | Cross Country
Nov. 16, 2007
NORMAN, Okla. -- University of Oklahoma cross country runner Jessica Eldridge heads to Terre Haute, Ind., in preparation of Monday's NCAA National Championship. Eldridge will be looking for her second career All-America honor on the 6,000-meter LaVern Gibson Championship Cross Country Course at the Wabash Family Sports Center.
Eldridge qualified for the event by finishing sixth in the NCAA Midwest Regional in Peoria, Ill., on Nov. 10. The senior led all Sooners with a time of 20 minutes and 10 seconds in the 6,000-meter race as the Oklahoma women's team finished ninth overall.
In last year's NCAA National Championship, held on the same course as this year's, Eldridge finished 18th with a time of 21:13 to become just the sixth woman in OU cross country history to earn All-America honors. Eldridge's result was the best by a Sooner at the national championships since Alice Braham finished sixth in 1994.
Eldridge had raced twice previously in the NCAA Championships, finishing 180th in 2003 and 80th in 2004.
The finish at the NCAA National Championship was just the beginning of a successful 2006-07 season for Eldridge as she captured two additional All-America honors during the track & field season, garnering honors in the outdoor 1500-meter run and as a member of the indoor distance medley relay team that finished sixth in the NCAA Indoor National Championship.
The 2007 NCAA Women's Cross Country National Championship begins at 11:55 a.m. CST and will feature a field of 255 competitors.
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