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The women’s NCAA D1 XC Championships race was a great follow-up to a pretty boring men’s race, which featured a lot of footage of Arizona’s Lawi Lalang running alone.

Silje Fjortoft of SMU tried to replicate Lalang’s domination, except she attempted to do so right from the gun. This always makes for fun spectating, because you know that there is about a 95% chance the early leader is just a sitting duck that’s about to be swallowed up, and it’s always fascinating to see how fast that gap disappears when the chase pack starts to attack.

In this case, the chase pack waited until the last 1500 of the 6000m race to strike down the lead, and when they did so, it was very predictable. With about 800m to go, the lead pack was fronted by Sheila Reid, Jordan Hasay and Emily Infeld. When it came down to the kick, it was a very familiar dual between Reid and Hasay, with Emily Infeld just not quite able to match their move. Ultimately, Reid nabbed yet another win, with Hassay less than a second back. Dartmouth’s Abbey D'Agostino passed Infeld for third, with Princeton’s Alex Banfich in fifth.

The team competition took a long time to tabulate. The cameras kept panning back and forth between Villanova and Washington, at one point showing the Washington women jumping up and down congratulating each other, and the Villanova women consoling each other. However, to steal a line from Alison Wade (@alisonkwade), “It's like Villanova and Washington were playing a football game, and Georgetown won it.”

That’s right, the Georgetown women, led by coach Chris Miltenberg, won their first NCAA title. The #1 ranked Florida State slipped all the way to fourth.

Also, props to Mark Coogan, who not only coached the third place individual finisher, his daughter was part of the winning Georgetown team. And to Columbia's Waverly Neer, the top freshman in the race in 40th place.

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