Rider senior Maddie Dischert from Atlantic City from a 6,000-meter all-course PR and placed 10th out of nearly 200 runners Friday at the Joe Handleman ’52 Fall Classic in Plainsboro. She was Rider’s first finisher.
Dischert, from Brigantine, ran 21:11 on Princeton’s home course, dropping her all-course 6K best from 21:21, which she ran two weeks ago at Lehigh in one of the Paul Short races that wasn’t cancelled.
Dischert was Rider’s top finisher and was just 28 seconds behind winner Julia Dill from Robert Morris in Pittsburgh., who ran 20:43.
La Salle senior Helene Usher from Haddonfield finished just 15 seconds behind Dischert in 16th place in 21:26. Usher was La Salle’s first finisher, 10 seconds of three-time Atlantic 10 champion Gwenno Goode.
Usher, who has run 16:30.14 for 5,000 meters on the track, has a 6K best of 21:05, also from Paul Short.
Chloe Care, a sophomore from Ocean City, was St. Joe’s 3rd runner, finishing in 22:29.
Four more South Jersey runners – Penn State sophomore Liliah Gordon, North Florida freshman Sophia Aldridge from Williamstown, St. Joe’s freshman Jonalee Adames from Sterling and La Salle junior Cara Coppolino from Sterling – all finished in a 22-second span from 22:42 through 23:04.
