Athlete of the Week: Elizabeth Page ’28

Elizabeth Page ’28 is a first-year cross country runner from Anchorage, Alaska. She led the Garnet women’s cross country team with a 49th place finish out of 387 runners in the Paul Short Run on Saturday at Lehigh University. She completed the 6-kilometer course in an impressive time of 22:20.3. The Paul Short Run is one of the largest collegiate cross country meets in the country, and Page helped the Garnet to a 74th place finish out of 164 total teams. Within the Division III standings, Swarthmore placed seventeenth out of 46 teams. Previously, Page finished in seventeenth place with a personal best of 18:55.1 in the Main Line Invitational 5-kilometer race. She was one of the top finishers not from a Division I school at the meet and aided the Garnet to fourth place above two Division II teams. The cross country team competes next on Oct. 19 at the Border Battle in Logan Township, NJ.

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