Green Leads Virginia with Top-Five Finish at Penn State National Open
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.- Freshman Abbey Green (Bethesda, Md.) led the Virginia women’s cross country team with a fourth-place finish on Friday (Oct. 12) at the Penn State National Open at the Blue-White Golf Course in University Park, Pa. The Cavaliers finished 14th overall with a score of 362.
“I was a bit disappointed in how we raced as a team,” head women’s cross country coach Megan LaVoie said. “I thought Abbey (Green) had a great race, but the gap between our first and fifth runner was way too much. We have to fight a little more on the course than what we did today. We have two weeks to work before heading into ACCs.”
Green captured a fourth-place finish with a time of 20.40 in the 6k race. She was followed by freshman Emma Wolcott (Leesburg, Va.), who recorded a time of 21.38 for 65th place. Sophomore Kiera Bothwell (Springfield, Va.) and freshman Helena Lindsay (Yokohama, Japan) finished 79th and 88th, respectively. Bothwell ran a time of 21.43, while Lindsay captured a time of 21.49. Sophomore Hannah Moran (Salam, Va.) rounded out the scoring runs for the Cavaliers. She finished 126th with a time of 22:14.
The Cavaliers will compete next at the ACC Championships in Chestnut Hill, Mass., on Oct. 26.