¶w10,000: Lisa Koll (Iowa State) 32:44.95

[gh]

Final Thursday

Event 28 Women 10000 Meter Run
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Final Only. Two waterfall, one turn, start (18 - 9)
Name Year School Seed
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Section 1 Timed Finals
1 Ali Kielty SO Az State 34:04.70
2 Christina DeRosa SR Massachusetts 34:26.95
3 Danette Doetzel JR Providence 33:27.64
4 Clara Grandt SO West Virginia 34:15.70
5 Morgan Haws JR Weber St. 33:53.57
6 Dana Hastie SR Stony Brook 34:14.53
7 Meghan Armstrong SR Iowa 33:28.00
8 Racheal Marchand SR Iowa 34:11.48
9 Katrina Rundhaug SR Wisconsin 33:29.48
10 Diane Nukuri SR Iowa 33:17.01
11 Jolee vanLeuven JR Princeton 34:15.61
12 Andrea Walkonen JR Boston Univ. 34:27.88
13 Melissa Grelli JR Georgetown 33:19.60
14 Natalie Sherbak JR VA Tech 34:17.15
15 Katie Read JR Virginia 34:01.27
16 Grace Kemmey JR Iowa St. 33:59.70
17 Lara Crofford FR Nebraska 33:56.46
18 Emily Harrison SR Virginia 33:40.34
19 Denise Bargiachi JR Arkansas 33:55.73
20 Kara Scanlin SR Virginia 33:57.18
21 Taryn Gibson SR Louisville 34:40.11
22 Betty Rotich JR Alabama 34:19.47
23 Marissa Daniels SR Rice 34:07.60
24 Alexandra Gits FR Stanford 33:19.42
25 Becky Wade FR Rice 34:30.75
26 Lisa Koll SO Iowa St. 32:11.13
27 Marisa Ryan SR Boston Univ. 33:47.00

[AS]

I assume these times have been misattributed:

1 Lisa Koll SO Iowa State 32:44.95 10
2 Danette Doetzel JR Providence 33:44.23 8

Who was the real winner?

[gm]

I assume these times have been misattributed:

1 Lisa Koll SO Iowa State 32:44.95 10
2 Danette Doetzel JR Providence 33:44.23 8

Who was the real winner?

Look again...

[AS]

Goddamn!!! That's a caning... didn't even occur to me that there might be a minute between first and second!!

[Bruce Kritzler]

Lots of dnf's?

[gh]

Koll had 20m on the field after 2 laps, 40m after 3 (not making that up)... weather was just fine (low 70s, no humidity), but everybody else was doing a shuffle while she decided to run

[unclezadok]

I was wondering when that would happen! The field doing the fun-run thing and someone decides to actually run. Good for her!

[gh]

Iowa State's first woman champ since El Moutawakel in '84

[tandfman]

I was wondering when that would happen! The field doing the fun-run thing and someone decides to actually run. Good for her!

I've seen plenty of races where someone makes an early move like that, takes a big lead over the pack, and eventually pays the price. In this case, it just didn't happen that way. She knew what she was doing and by the end of the race, she was almost a lap ahead of second place. But that isn't always the case when it looks as if everyone else is doing the fun-run thing and someone decides to actually run.

[26mi235]

I was wondering when that would happen! The field doing the fun-run thing and someone decides to actually run. Good for her!

I've seen plenty of races where someone makes an early move like that, takes a big lead over the pack, and eventually pays the price. In this case, it just didn't happen that way. She knew what she was doing and by the end of the race, she was almost a lap ahead of second place. But that isn't always the case when it looks as if everyone else is doing the fun-run thing and someone decides to actually run.

Koll was in a different league and everyone else in the pack knew that was the case. Look at the qualifying times going in . The rest knew that they would be running for second unless they went with Koll, in which case they would be running to finish.

This was the next highest qualifier to Koll's big negative-split 32:11 and she was a DNF:

10 Diane Nukuri SR Iowa 33:17.01

[gh]

Koll vs. Kipyego would have been nice!

[26mi235]

Koll vs. Kipyego would have been nice!

That Kipyego did not run this race (i.e., Koll was going to be tough competition with 5000s on both sides and possible warm weather) is another indication that the other gals were not in the same league.

[gh]

Finals
1 Lisa Koll SO Iowa State 32:44.95 10
2 Danette Doetzel JR Providence 33:44.23 8
3 Alexandra Gits FR Stanford 33:49.73 6
4 Marisa Ryan SR Boston University 33:54.38 5
5 Katrina Rundhaug SR Wisconsin 34:00.62 4
6 Meghan Armstrong SR Iowa 34:01.87 3
7 Morgan Haws JR Weber State 34:05.56 2
8 Racheal Marchand SR Iowa 34:05.87 1
9 Jolee vanLeuven JR Princeton 34:09.51
10 Grace Kemmey JR Iowa State 34:27.42
11 Clara Grandt SO West Virginia 34:41.04
12 Emily Harrison SR Virginia 34:48.19
13 Andrea Walkonen JR Boston University 34:54.32
14 Katie Read JR Virginia 35:15.47
15 Dana Hastie SR Stony Brook-SUNY 35:19.73
16 Natalie Sherbak JR Virginia Tech 35:26.87
17 Ali Kielty SO Arizona State 35:27.68
18 Christina DeRosa SR Massachusetts 35:33.33
19 Denise Bargiachi JR Arkansas 35:41.98
20 Becky Wade FR Rice 35:51.16
21 Marissa Daniels SR Rice 35:58.65
22 Taryn Gibson SR Louisville 38:45.60
-- Melissa Grelli JR Georgetown DNF
-- Diane Nukuri SR Iowa DNF
-- Kara Scanlin SR Virginia DNF
-- Betty Rotich JR Alabama DNF
-- Lara Crofford FR Nebraska DNF

[ed gee]

Two Iowa State and two U of Iowa finishers in the top ten. Diane Nukuri from Iowa DNF and was in the top 10 for the majority of the race.