RESULTS

NAPERVILLE, Ill. – Junior Taryn Cordani of the Ithaca College women's track & field team won her second national title in as many days as she bested the 3,000-meter field of 17 entries with a facility record time of 9:42.43 at the NCAA Division III Indoor Championships at Al B. Carius Track.

Cordani won the race by nearly two seconds and set the Al B. Carius Track record by nearly five seconds. She also re-established her own school record by .42 seconds.

She jumped out in front of the pack on the opening lap and paced the field until the eighth lap. The eventual runner up, Felicia Koerner, of Johns Hopkins, pulled ahead of Cordani by just .017 seconds as they completed the ninth lap. Koerner led by nearly a second after 11 laps, and held onto that lead, until Cordani blew by her on the final lap to win by 1.89 seconds.

It is now the 37th all-time individual national title in Ithaca College history, and the first time that an individual student-athlete has won multiple national championships in the same year since Lindsey Mazer '98 of the gymnastics team claimed two titles during the 1997-98 season.

To read about Cordani's 5K national title run yesterday afternoon, follow this link.