A National Champion, a runner up, and an athlete who missed making the finals by .02 seconds. Jen Barringer, Ricardo Chambers, and Shantia Moss give their accounts on their experiences at the NCAA Championships in Sacramento as well as how their outdoor campaigns began to come to a close.
Jen Barringer, freshman, University of Colorado
After being named Big 12 Freshman of the year in XC and being the second true freshman finisher at NCAA's, what more could Jen Barringer accomplish the rest of her first year as a Buffalo? How bout an outdoor national championship in the 3000m steeplechase?
"The goal Mark and I set up the week going into NCAA's was to just run well in the prelims and hopefully qualify for the finals. It was only my fifth time running the steeple this season so I really didn't have any expectations other then to just make the finals and do the best I could do. This was probably the first big race of my life where I didn't know much at all about my competit...
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