May 11, 2007

PRINCETON, N.J. - Junior Christina DeRosa (Sound Beach, N.Y.) represented the University of Massachusetts women's track team well on Friday night as the lone competitor at the ECAC Championships hosted by Princeton University. The distance runner turned in a fifth-place performance in the 10,000 meters with the second fastest time of her career at 36 minutes, 28.04 seconds. DeRosa entered the meet coming off her Atlantic 10 Championship performance in the 10K one week ago. Friday's race was the first time she had competed at the ECAC Outdoor Championship Meet during her career.

Jolee Van Leuven of Princeton won the race in 34 minutes, 58.82 seconds. In just her second 10,000 meter race of the season, DeRosa was just 21 seconds shy of setting her career-best time in the event.

Jacqueline Prevete of Fordham was the only other Atlantic 10 runner entered in the race and she finished 12th overall. A week ago, she finished third just behind DeRosa.

Women 10000 Meter Run
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Meet Record: M 34:16.35  1980        Mary Walsh, Maryland
                33:30.00  NCAA
    Name              Year School                  Finals                        Points
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  1   668 van Leuven,   09 Princeton             34:58.82                    10
  2  1112 Whipple, Jus  07 Navy                  35:11.84                     8
  3   242 Pishny, Elle  07 Duke                  35:35.47                     6
  4   457 Jefferson, C  08 Liberty               36:00.23                     5
  5   942 DeRosa, Chri  08 UMass                 36:28.04                     4
  6    89 Nastase, Lea  07 Bucknell              36:43.52                     3
  7   620 Gagnon, Kris  08 Northeastern          37:03.57                     2
  8   706 Caruana, Ali  09 Rutgers               37:11.90                     1
  9  1046 Hodges, Laur  07 Virginia              37:15.19
10   768 Mullen, Cris  07 St Francis NY         37:18.23
11   569 Malloy, Mere  10 Monmouth              37:24.75
12   282 Prevente, Ja  09 Fordham               37:36.87
13   437 House, Carol  07 Lehigh                38:11.44
14   985 Bossart, Suz  08 Pittsburgh            38:54.91
--   127 Booker, Abby  08 William & Mary             DNF
--  1083 Barlow, Alli  07 Navy                       DNF
--     8 Radzik, Kati  09 Binghamton                 DNF
--   537 Little, Morg  09 UMBC                       DNF