Wichita State cross country runner Aliphine Tuliamuk-Bolton finished fourth in the NCAA Championships on Saturday in Louisville, Ky., the best finish in Shocker history.
Her time of 19 minutes, 33.70 seconds in the 6-kilometer race is a WSU record. She earned All-America status for a third time.
Tuliamuk-Bolton, a senior from Kenya, led the race from the 3-kilometer mark to 5 kilometers before falling back over the final 200 meters.
?I wanted to be in the lead pack before the mile mark,? she said in a news release. ?But I got caught in the middle of all of the runners, so it took a faster pace to catch up to them. At the end, I was tired and that?s when they pulled away from me.?
Iowa State?s Betsy Saina, a friend and former teammate of Tuliamuk-Bolton, won the race with a time of 19:27.90. Oregon won the women?s team title at Tom Sawyer State Park.
?I thought Aliphine performed incredible,? WSU coach Kirk Hunter said. ?It is pretty amazing what she accomplished here.?
Tuliamuk-Bolton finished 12th last season with a time of 19:57.70. She finished 68th as a freshman and 13th as a sophomore, both at Iowa State. She transferred to WSU after her sophomore cross country season and ran in the 2011 NCAA meet for the Shockers.
Source: http://www.kansas.com/2012/11/17/2571993/wichita-state-runner-finishes.html
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