Young wom.en's team. excels in conference During the 1998 season the women's cross country team placed second in the conference and fourth in the region, and three team members - junior Cher i Scharff, sophomoreTiaTarole and freshman Britney Copeland - were named.to the all-conference team. The team consisted of four juniors, including Scharff, Kelly Lauterbach, Diane Grubbs and Katie Fant; one sophomore, Tarole; and three freshmen - Copeland, Lindsay Snow and Elizabeth Lucas. Coach Bryan Phillips sa id, "The girl s are all great. They ran really well th is yea r. The season was a big success and I am very proud of them. " Junior Diane Grubbs agreed wi th Phillips. "Our team works really well together," she said. "The freshmen are strong and the whole team got along we ll. I feel that we had a good season and we had a reall y good team.Theonlybad thingwas that we did not win first place in the conference. We lost it by two points." The team meshed we ll together as the season went along and that helped the Lady Bisons have a successful year. "The season was good, " Scharff said. "The freshmen fit in perfectly. We got really close as a team. We are all about the same in the way we run. In my opinion, we should have won the conference. We ran with all we had. We did learn a lot." Scharffalso said, "I was really excited about being named allconference, but Iwas disappointed that our team did not win even though we did so wel l. " Freshman Eli zabeth Lucas said, "Running at Harding is a lot different from running in high school because the team isso much closer here. Also, we depend on each other as teammates more than my team did in high school. I fee l like running in college has developed me, not only as a runner, but also as a person. This season was a really good and cha ll enging one for me." In the regional race, the team placed fourth , mi ssing nationals by only 11 points. The three teams that beat Harding we re teams that were ranked first, seventh and 12th in the nation. Harding beat the 14th ranked team at regionals. "The race was a lot of fun," Grubbs said. "I felt like it really challenged me. The team that won was expected to win the national title." "Due to the fact that there were no seniors, the team will be very strong again next year /' Phillips said. "Next season should be even better than this season. " - Meredith Hlasta LSC All Conference Tia Tarole Cheri Scharff Britney Copeland • 216 LSC Academic All Conference Katie Fant Kelly Lauterbach Cheri Scharff LSC Commissioner's Honor Roll Diane Grubbs Katie Fant Kelly Lauterbach Cheri Scharff ATHLETI CS Women's Cross Country Team: Front Row: Britney Copeland, Diane Grubbs, Kelly Lauterbach, Lindsay Snow. Back Row: ria Tarole, Katie Fant, Cheri Scharff, Elizabeth Lucas.
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