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Fifth-Year Phenom - GoStanford.com - Stanford University

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DyeStatCOLLEGE.com   Apr 23rd 2016, 3:06pm
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Fifth-Year Phenom

Published by David Kiefer on April 23rd, 2016

STANFORD, Calif. – Stanford's Molly McNamara continues to prove that even a fifth-year senior can have a breakout season. 

After years on a performance plateau, McNamara has set lifetime bests in each of her first three outdoor track and field meets this season, including a huge five-second drop in her specialty, the 1,500 meters, on Friday at the inaugural Stanford Twilight at Cobb Track and Angell Field.

McNamara finished second to Annemarie Schwanz, who broke her own Fresno State record with a 4:14.89 to McNamara’s 4:15.22. The race was so fast that three of the year’s top five collegiate times came out of it. McNamara sits at No. 4.

Of Stanford’s six runners in that event, four ran lifetime bests, including fourth-place Claudia Saunders (4:15.52) and Section Two winner Vanessa Fraser (4:19.45), who was seventh overall. McNamara and Saunders broke into Stanford’s all-time top-10 performers’ list, at Nos. 9 and 10.

The Twilight meet was meant to showcase three distance events – the 800, 1,500, and 5,000 – among the 13 schools taking part. The result was excellent racing, including the 3:40.11 1,500 by Penn State’s Brannon Kidder, making him the third-fastest collegian this year, to best Stanford’s Sean McGorty (third, 3:42.22) and freshman Grant Fisher(3:42.85), who was fifth in a lifetime best on his 19th birthday.



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