Lexi Tepper of UMBC and Kate Inglis of Catholic University both placed in the top 15 Saturday at the Cantello XC Invitational.
Tepper, a sophomore from Cherry Hill East, ran 22:08 and placed 5th overall out of 78 runners over 6,000 meters at the U.S. Naval Academy Golf Club in Anne Arundel County, Md., across the Severn River from Annapolis. Inglis, a senior from Moorestown, placed 15th in 23:13.
Tepper has raced twice this fall and finished no worse than 5th in either race. She won her 2024 debut last month at Mount St. Mary’s in Emmittsburg, Md., with a PR 18:13.
This was Inglis’s first race this fall. She won the steeplechase last spring at the Landmark Conference Championships in Elizabethtown, Pa. Inglis is the Catholic school record holder in the steeplechase [11:07.96] and 5,000 [17:37.32].
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 