1989 Women's Cross Country

Coach Ron Hopkins and his Lady Flames Cross Country team started the season on September 9th attheWilliam andMary Invitational. LU finished second inthe competition with Karen Eiseman finishing seventh, Lynn Atwood twelfth, andSuzzane Duncan sixteenth.

The second meet ofthe season found theteam competing atthe15team UMB C Retriever Invitational.The team finishedfirstwithfiveofthetopsixplaces.Eiseman setacourserecord and finished first. Atwood finished seven seconds later for a second place finish followed by Patty Bottiglieriand Duncan.

The Lady FlamesthenfinishedthirdintheLoyolaUniversityLakefrontInvitationalinChicago with Eiseman finishing tenth and Atwood thirteenth.

The fourthmeetmatched theLady FlamesagainstallteamsinthestateofVirginia.LUfinished fourth behind William andMary,George Mason,andtheUniversity of Virginia.

The Mason-Dixon Conference Championships held inBaltimore again belonged to the Lady Rames forthefifth consecutiveyear. Libertyheld thetopthreeplacesand had its first sixrunners earnAll-Conference honors. Atwood finished theracefirst followed by Eiseman and Bottiglieri.

The cross country team then concluded the year with a respectable 23rd place finish at the regional championships.

MikeMontoro