Bryn Mawr's Claudia Keep Named Runner of the Week

Posted: Sep 29, 2014

September 29, 2014

Claudia Keep, Sr, Bryn Mawr
Solebury, PA / Solebury

Keep took home first place at the Lancaster Bible Homecoming Invitational on Saturday by running the 5k course in 19:48. She also did a solid job of pacing some of the younger Owls to help Bryn Mawr place second in the team standings.

Notebook:

Swarthmore junior Katie Jo McMenamin placed 13th overall and first among Division III athletes at the Main Line Invitational at Haverford. She navigated a soaked three-mile course in 17:40.70 and finished behind 12 runners from Villanova and Penn. McMenamin's mark also bettered all Division III athletes by more than 35 seconds.

Previous Women's Cross Country Runners of the Week:

	September 22, 2014 Sarah Rutkowski, Sr, Dickinson Swarthmore, PA / Strath Haven Rutkowski matched the winning time (14:21) in the 4k event at the Dickinson Long/Short Course Invitational on Saturday by finishing less than a second behind CMUs' Liz Snyder. Rutkowski's second place finish led the Red Devil women to second place in the overall combined standings, avenging an earlier loss to Division II Shippensburg.
	Nora Weathers, Jr, Haverford Peterborough, N.H. / Miss Porters School Weathers placed third overall (23:09.15) at the Dickinson Long (6k) Invitational in the field of 265 runners that competed in the long race. She led No. 13 Haverford to a second-place finish in the team standings in the 6k event. Out of the 35 teams that competed in the long race, Haverford finished only behind Division I Bucknell. The Fords finished in front of third-place, No. 10 Dickinson by 17 points in the team standings for the long race.
	September 15, 2014 Sophia Meehan, Jr, Johns Hopkins Havertown, PA / Haverford Meehan finished first at the Salty Dog Invitational this past weekend with a time of 21:53.65. The Johns Hopkins women's cross country team is ranked No. 1 in the country in Division III and finished with three of the top-four runners, and five of the top-10, at the Salty Dog Invitational en route to a first-place finish.
	September 8, 2014 Hannah Hastings, Jr, Bryn Mawr Potomac, MD / St. Andrew's Episcopal School Hastings earned her first collegiate cross country victory by taking home first place in Saturday's Highlander Invitational. The junior ran the 6k course in 23:29, shattering the old course record en route to her victory. She also helped the Owls take home second place in the event, just behind fellow Centennial Conference school Ursinus.
	September 2, 2014 Frances Loeb, Sr, Johns Hopkins Wynnewood, PA / Lower Merion Loeb pulled away from the pack in the final minute to claim victory in the Salisbury Fall Classic with a time of 21:06.43. The No. 1 ranked Hopkins women's cross country team started their season with a weekend sweep at the Baltimore Metro Invitational and the Salisbury Fall Classic, where they finished with a perfect score of 15 points. The Blue Jays claimed the top nine spots overall at the Salisbury Fall Classic, and 11 of the first 15.