Meet Information 
• Race: Coast-to-Coast Battle in Beantown
• Location: Franklin Park • Jamaica Plain, MA
• Date: Friday, September 21
• The Short Story: The No. 1 Johns Hopkins women's cross country team tested itself on Friday afternoon as the Blue Jays were the only Division III school out of a field of 24 at the Coast-to-Coast Battle in Beantown. JHU held its own, finishing 15^th, ahead of teams such as Pittsburg (7^th in Mid Atlantic), Bucknell (8^th in Mid Atlantic) and New Hampshire (11^th Northeast). Hopkins finished just six points behind the University of North Carolina.
• Complete Results

Race Highlights
• Hopkins didn't get off to a start off the line which set them back a bit and forced them to really have to work in the earlier parts of the race to get into good positions. Junior Abbey Wheeler of No. 11 Providence won the race with a time of 17:10 while Bethany Hasz of No. 24 Minnesota finished second with a time of 17:17. Senior Ellie Clawson was the top finisher for the Blue Jays as she finished 46^th overall with a time of 18:06, ahead of runners from No. 27 Dartmouth and No. 34 Utah. Clawson put together a great second half of the race to finish in the top-50 in the field of 216. Samantha Levy was the next best finisher for JHU, finishing in 65^th with a time of 18:16. Levy was one of the Blue Jay runners who was able to get out well from the start as she set herself up for a great race. Casey Greenwalt of UNC finished in 78^th, just two seconds of Felicia Koerner who finished in 79^th with a time of 18:28.
• Emily Stahl was the top finisher for the Blue Jays in the open race with a mark of 18:48.  

Team Results
1. Ole Miss (102 pts.)
2. Georgia Tech (105 pts.)
3. Utah (161 pts.)
4. Minnesota (162 pts.)
5. Dartmouth (168 pts.)
15. Johns Hopkins (378)

Johns Hopkins Top Finishers:
46. Ellie Clawson – 18:06
65. Samantha Levy – 18:16
79. Felicia Koerner – 18:28
100. Ariel Keklak – 18:45
109. Tasha Freed – 18:54
127. Kristin Meek – 19:07

HEAD COACH BOBBY VAN ALLEN
• "Races like this certainly help prepare us for our championships and we get to go out and do it again in a big Division I field in eight days at the Paul Short Run."

Up Next
• Many JHU runners will be racing tomorrow, Saturday, September 22 at the Dickinson Long/Short Invitational. The meet is scheduled to being at 10:30 am.

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