COLUMBIA, Mo. – In the women's 6k Gold Invitational Zoey McNabb set a program record time (20:39.10) to finish in 45th place overall. The Vermont women finished in 22nd out of 29 teams in the Gold race with the men finishing in 26th out of 30 led by William Locke's time of 24:29.20.  
 
RELATED LINKS
Results: Women's 6k Gold | Men's 8k Gold
Women's 6k Black | Men's 8k Black
 
COACHES QUOTE
"We raced really well as teams today. In what was the most challenging fields most of our runners have seen, we were smart, patient, and strong throughout. Zoey produced the fasted 6K result in UVM program history, and moved up well throughout the race. Bella and Siena also run exceptionally strong races with huge personal bests. Our women beat some pretty good teams today for sure.
 
For the men, Will and Darius worked together pretty nicely and Eamon held on well for a sub-25 mark.  It was great to have Nick back racing and gives us a huge boost as we move toward October. Overall, I'm just really pleased with how well these people represent our program and UVM. And we will keep getting better."
 
HOW IT HAPPENED

• For the third consecutive race to open her career McNabb paced the Vermont women. The Hinesburg, Vermont native trimmed 50 seconds off her time from last weekends' race at Dartmouth. It is the fastest 6k time for the Vermont women in program history at 20:39.10.
• Siena Stanley posted the best time of her Catamount career with a 21:06.30. She finished in 82nd overall out of a field with over 250 competitors.
• Right behind Stanley was Isabella Fryer for Vermont in 89th overall. She clocked a 21:09.80, nearly a full minute faster than her previous best time of the season from Dartmouth last week.
• Freshman Lydia Donahue was next to finish for the Catamounts at 21:53.10 with Grace DeLisle following at 22:06.10.
• Reese Bradbury (22:24.90), Dailey Arnold (22:34.90), Hannah Devine (22:44.0), Ellery Klatka (22:45.20), Niav Murphy (22:45.90) rounded out the Invitational participants for Vermont.
• The Catamount men were lead by William Locke on Friday, finishing 121st overall at 24:29.20 in the 8k Gold Invitational.
• Darius Parker clocked a 24:36.60 to finish second for UVM and Eamon Burke posted a 24:57.0 in 166th place overall.
• Bennett Harrison-Michaels crossed the line 25:02.0 and Nick Kidder just edged Will Just for the fifth Catamount to finish. Kidder posted a 25:06.80 and Just a 25:07.30.
• Myles Napolitano (25:12.90), Josiah Conley (25:20.10), Tommy Wolfe (25:35.60) and Patrick Mozden (25:39.80) wrapped up the Vermont times in the Gold 8k.
• In the Men's 8k Black race Forrest Mele-Kean lead the way in 43rd out of 257 participants with a 25:59.40. Morgan McCuen finished 89th at 26:41.60.
• Dylan Friedman was the top Vermont finisher in the women's 6k at 64th overall with a time of 23:04.0. Lila Pritham finished 72nd in a field of 255 participants with a time of 23:08.60.

UP NEXT

• Vermont returns to action tomorrow in the Equality Invitational, hosted by St. Michael's College in Colchester. Live timing can be found on 802timing.com with the men scheduled to start at 10 a.m. and the women at 11 a.m.   

 
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