Stanhope Leads Dukes at NCAA Southeast Regional

Friday, November 10

Spartanburg, S.C.

11 a.m.

James Madison University

NCAA Southeast Regional

11/10/2023 12:02:00 PM | Cross Country

SPARTANBURG, S.C. – Miranda Stanhope finished 33rd in 20:47.5 as the Dukes placed 19th out of 34 scoring teams at the NCAA Southeast Regional at the Milliken Research Center Friday morning.

James Madison tallied 512 points (33-56-133-140-150) in the 6K race, 37 points behind 18th-place Richmond. N.C. State (52) and Furman (82) earned automatic bids to the NCAA Championships.

How It Happened

The Dukes were in 20th at the 2K split with Stanhope leading the team with a time of 6:28.1.
JMU remained in 20th while Stanhope moved up to 52nd at the 3.5K split (11:57.3), with sophomore Katherine Lawson closely behind (63rd – 12:02.1)
Stanhope continued to climb the ranks (39th – 17:23.5), while Lawson followed (50th - 17:31.5).
Stanhope was the first member of the Dukes to finish the 6K race, crossing the line in 20:47.5 for 33rd. Lawson registered a personal-best time of 21:07.6 for 58th.
Junior Sofia Terenziani (133rd – 22:26.9), fifth-year McKenzi Watkins (140th – 22:32.5) and sophomore Faithe Ketchum (150th – 22:44.7) rounded out the scoring.

Meet Notes

Stanhope has finished in the top 50 at the NCAA Southeast Regional for the third consecutive year.
The team posted an average time of 21:55 with a 1:58 spread among scorers. That's an improvement from the team's 22:38 average at last year's regional meet.
This is the fourth consecutive regional meet in which JMU has finished in the top 20 as a team. The program finished 19th last year with 577 points.

Quoting Head Coach Rebekah Ricksecker
"Today we saw some outstanding individual performances and a solid overall team performance. I'm really proud of Miranda, as she continued to lead our team, running her fastest regional 6k time and had her best race of the season today, with a very fast final kilometer. Katherine stepped up, running a 44-second PR. Sofia is a competitor and also ran great today. Also very proud of our seniors. McKenzi has been a consistent top-5 competitor all season; her efforts have been huge for our team, and today was no different. And Mary finished her last college cross country race with a PR."

JMU Runners
33. Miranda Stanhope – 20:47.5
56. Katherine Lawson – 21:07.6 (PR)
133. Sofia Terenziani – 22:26.9
140. McKenzi Watkins – 22:32.5
150. Faithe Ketchum – 22:44.7
179. Mary Milby – 23:14.9 (PR)
202. Kristin Giordano – 24:17.7