Couraud Finishes as Runner-Up in Goucher Classic
TOWSON, Md. — Goucher's Hadley Couraud (East Lansing, Mich./East Lansing) was the runner-up today in the 2009 Goucher Cross Country Classic, finishing less than 11 seconds behind Melody Parshall from York.
Host School Places Third Behind York, Coppin St. in Team Scoring
TOWSON, Md. — Goucher's Hadley Couraud (East
Lansing, Mich./East Lansing) was the runner-up today in
the 2009 Goucher Cross Country Classic, finishing less than 11
seconds behind Melody Parshall from York.
Parshall's winning time was 25:40.19, while Couraud completed the 6,000-meter race in 25:50.28. Latisha Duncan from Coppin St. was third with her time of 25:52.39, York's Corie Thompson was fourth (26:12.85) and Goucher's Katie Shaw (Albuquerque, N.M./Bosque School) was fifth (26:14.62).
The three remaining runners that figured in Goucher's team score of 60 points were Hannah Southworth (Durham, N.H./Oyster River) in 16th place with a time of 28:09.63, Kate Young (Ithaca, N.Y./Ithaca) in 21st place (29:40.78) and Chiara Collette (Naples, Fla./Jakarta International School) in 26th (30:36.33).
In the team scoring, York posted the low score of 37 points to win the title and second place went to Coppin St., which earned a score of 59 points, one fewer than Goucher. Still, by finishing third, head coach John Caslin's Gophers matched their best performance in the Goucher Cross Country Classic — third place in 2006 — since winning the event in 2005.