May 3, 2009

Complete Results

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Christa Plummer won her second crown of the weekend and was named the Atlantic 10 Co-Performer of the Year on the final day of the Atlantic 10 Championships on Sunday afternoon.

Plummer ran an NCAA qualifying time of 16:46.37 to win the conference 5,000 meter title. She won the 10K title yesterday.

Also winning an A10 title was Korey Edwards, who topped the conference in the 800 meter run. He clocked a 1:51.53 to beat out Xavier's Clinton Womack by two-hundredths of a second for the gold. Edwards also ran the 1,500 meters where his time of 3:55.08 placed him fourth in a tight race that saw the top four all finish within one second of each other.

Senior Meaghan Hobson placed third in the 800 meter run, just behind Charlotte's Aja Jackson and Fordham's Melissa Salerno. Hobson ran an ECAC time of 2:11.43 in the effort.

Also on the women's side, Caitlin Storbeck was the top freshman finisher in the 1,500 meters as she ran a time of 4:39.26 for eighth out of 28 runners.

On the men's side, the 4x100 relay team of James Thomas, Steven Rendall, Michael George and Orestes Medina narrowly missed an IC4A time by running a 42.81, which placed them fifth in the race.

Overall, the men finished eighth in the team standings with 32 points, while the women came in 10th with 41 points. Charlotte once again swept the titles.