2011 Season Review

Signature highlight: Another trip to the NCAA national championship as a team marked the pinnacle for the 2011 Haverford College women’s cross country team.  In that meet, senior Emily Lipman took 53^rd place as the first to cross the finish line for the Fords (who took 28^th as a team). The event was hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and held at Lake Breeze Country Club (Winneconne, Wis.). 

Awards:

• NCAA Division III national championship: 28^th place
• Centennial Championship: Emily Lipman, runner-up
• All-Mideast Region: Lipman, Emily Scott, Andrea Tocci and Alice Vienneau
• All-Centennial Conference first team: Lipman, Scott. 
  All-Centennial Conference second team: Tocci, Sara Hess
• Centennial Conference Academic Honor Roll: Flora Berklein, Jamie Croucher, Hess, Lipman, Kathryn Meehan, Molly Minden, Mary Morgan, Sheera Rosenbaum, Olivia Uddin, Vienneau, Sally Weathers

Season notes: The Fords finished in the top four at the Mideast Regional meet for the 11^th time in the last 12 years, clinching an at-large bid in 2011. For the season, Haverford raced to a second-place Centennial championship finish and a fourth-place regional performance en route to 28^th at the national event. Earlier in the season, the Fords took seventh-place at the Paul Short Invitational (brown division), and fifth at the Princeton Invitational.  It wasn’t until post-season meets that the Fords really hit their stride.

Looking ahead: The Fords lose just two runners to graduation in their top scoring seven from the national meet.  That’s good news for head coach Fran Rizzo and his staff, as the Fords will look to capture the league title and earn yet another invitation to the nationals.