{"id":6278,"date":"2013-11-01T14:34:50","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T18:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=6278"},"modified":"2013-11-01T14:34:50","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T18:34:50","slug":"dukes-bottorff-wins-acc-womens-cross-country-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=6278","title":{"rendered":"Duke’s Bottorff wins ACC women’s cross country title"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Juliet Bottorff.<\/figcaption><\/figure>Florida State placed three runners among the top eight finishers to win its sixth-straight ACC Women\u2019s Cross Country Championships on a rainy Friday morning at Beeson Park in Kernersville, N.C. <\/p>\n

Duke\u2019s Juliet Bottorff won the women\u2019s individual title, finishing the 6k course in 20:05.9 to hold off FSU\u2019s Colleen Quigley who came across eight seconds later in 20:13.9.<\/p>\n

Quigley, a junior, led three Seminoles in the top eight finishers and five in the top 20, as Florida State finished with 52 points, 13 ahead of second-place Virginia.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe found new depth on our team today,\u201d said Florida State head coach Karen Harvey. \u201cWe needed several people to step up in the last 1k of the race and they did. With three minutes left, we were behind and that’s when Linden Hall, Pippa Woolven and Carly Thomas came through for us and saved the day.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are very happy to have defended our title today. It was all about who was going to be the toughest today. I’m really proud of this team.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bottorff is the first Duke runner to win the individual conference crown since the Blue Devils\u2019 Sally Meryerhoff and Shannon Rowbury won consecutive titles in 2004 and 2005.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a fun race for me,\u201d said Bottorff. \u201cBeing only an hour away from this course, we were able to come out here a couple of times during the year to practice, so I was really comfortable with the course. I just managed my pace for the first 4K and was able to push it from there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bottorff, a senior who finished just ahead of Quigley for third place at last year\u2019s ACC meet, led the pack at the 4k mark and held on for the win.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to win,\u201d added Bottorff. \u201cI wanted it pretty bad after finishing third last year. I had some very good competition in this race, and I knew it wasn’t going to be handed to me.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe rain wasn’t much of a factor for me. I think we actually traded out the wind for the rain in our race. The rain benefits some of us because it cools us off. The rain actually makes the race a little more fun for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Boston College junior Liv Westphal finished third behind Bottorff and Quigley in 20:15.9. Virginia senior Barbara Strehler was fourth in 20:20.8, while Florida State junior Hannah Walker took fifth in 20:25.0<\/p>\n

In their first-ever ACC championship, Syracuse and Notre Dame placed third and fourth, respectively, with 108 and 124 points. Duke rounded out the top five with 130 points.<\/p>\n

– News release<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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