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Malone Earns First Team All-America Honors in 10k
6/11/2015 11:01:00 PM | Track and Field
Marks the fifth All-American thus far at the NCAA Championships for the Orange
Margo Malone raced to a seventh-place finish in the 10,000-meter final on day two of the NCAA Outdoor Track and field Championships, earning First Team All-America honors.
The 'Cuse junior is the fifth All-American for the Orange thus far at the NCAA Championships, after Freddie Crittenden (110-meter hurdles), Donald Pollitt (110-meter hurdles), Martin Hehir (10,000-meters) and Dan Lennon (10,000-meters) earned Second Team All-America honors on Wednesday. Max Straneva also earned honorable mention honors in the 10k.
It's the second-straight year Syracuse has placed a student-athlete in the scoring at the event, with Sarah Pagano also taking seventh at the 2014 NCAA Championships.
Malone spent much of the race in the middle of a crowded pack with little separation before Tennessee's Chelsea Blaase pushed the tempo from the front, which Malone and 10 other runners answered and half the field was dropped off the pace.
Those 12 runners stuck together until under one mile remained in the race when defending champion Emma Bates from Boise State made her move to separate the field. Malone attempted to answer but was pinned inside on the rail and stuck with the chase pack.
Bates' move came too early however, as nine runners including Malone reeled in the defending National Champion following her separating the pack.
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Malone finished in a time of 33:39.50. Notre Dame's Molly Seidel, who finished second to Malone at the ACC Championships, won the event.
Justyn Knight and Colin Bennie are the lone members of the Orange who have yet to compete at the NCAA Championships. They'll get their event underway on Friday by way of 5,000-meter final.
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The 'Cuse junior is the fifth All-American for the Orange thus far at the NCAA Championships, after Freddie Crittenden (110-meter hurdles), Donald Pollitt (110-meter hurdles), Martin Hehir (10,000-meters) and Dan Lennon (10,000-meters) earned Second Team All-America honors on Wednesday. Max Straneva also earned honorable mention honors in the 10k.
It's the second-straight year Syracuse has placed a student-athlete in the scoring at the event, with Sarah Pagano also taking seventh at the 2014 NCAA Championships.
Malone spent much of the race in the middle of a crowded pack with little separation before Tennessee's Chelsea Blaase pushed the tempo from the front, which Malone and 10 other runners answered and half the field was dropped off the pace.
Those 12 runners stuck together until under one mile remained in the race when defending champion Emma Bates from Boise State made her move to separate the field. Malone attempted to answer but was pinned inside on the rail and stuck with the chase pack.
Bates' move came too early however, as nine runners including Malone reeled in the defending National Champion following her separating the pack.
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Malone finished in a time of 33:39.50. Notre Dame's Molly Seidel, who finished second to Malone at the ACC Championships, won the event.
Justyn Knight and Colin Bennie are the lone members of the Orange who have yet to compete at the NCAA Championships. They'll get their event underway on Friday by way of 5,000-meter final.
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