The University of Washington held its “Final Qualifier” at its Dempsey Indoor Facility for track, as a last chance for collegians to earn the standards needed to qualify for next week’s NCAA indoor championships. Taking advantage of the situation was Stanford’s Aisling Cuffe, who had narrowly missed achieving the necessary mark in the 3K last week on this very track. Aisling, the 2010 Foot Locker National champion, is only a freshman but she earned a berth in the NCAA meet with her time of 9:07.79 with room to spare. Also earning a time, which was under the 9:10 automatic qualifier, was Tara Erdman of Loyola Marymount, whose time of 9:08.85 was also good for second place. Just missing was former Xavier Prep (Arizona) runner Jessica Tonn, also from Stanford, who ran 9:12.
Laura Carlyle of Oregon State led the way in the Mile with a time of 4:37.57: a time just above the standard needed of 4:37. Laura will represent OSU next weekend at Nampa, as the NCAA ext...