Oct. 18, 2003

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The Providence College women's cross country team captured the Penn State Invitational for the second consecutive season on Saturday, October 18. Junior Kimberly Smith (Auckland, New Zealand) led the way for the Friars as she captured the individual title in a time of 20:14.59.

Junior Mary Cullen (Sligo, Ireland) also ran a very strong race for the Friars as she finished second behind Smith in a time of 20:24. Sophomore Fiona Crombie (Christchurch, New Zealand) was the third Friar to finish in the top 10 as she placed ninth in a time of 21:10.54. Rounding out the scoring for the Friars were senior Lisa Cappello of Lockport, N.Y. (18th, 21:24) and junior Deirdre Byrne of Avoca, Ireland (19th, 21:25.26).

Providence will compete again on Friday, October 31 at the BIG EAST Championship at Van Cortlandt Park in Bronx, N.Y.

WOMEN'S RESULTS (Top 10) - 6 K
1	Kimberly Smith	Providence	20:14.59
2	Mary Cullen	Providence	20:24.12
3	Molly Landreth	Penn State	20:30.25
4	Caitlin Hickin	Columbia	20:54.72
5	Mindy Sawtele	Indiana	20:57.01
6	Brooke Novak	Tennessee	20:58.21
7	Lisa Stublic	Columbia	21:07.64
8	Christa Benton	South Florida	21:09.42
9	Fiona Crombie	Providence	21:10.54
10	Tenke Zoltani	Columbia	21:13.32

18	Lisa Cappello	Providence	21:24.63
19	Deirdre Byrne	Providence	21:25.26
51	Katie Twarog	Providence	22:19.21
78	Ashley Jensen	Providence	22:54.44
127	Roisin Quinn 	Providence	23:44.13
131	Laura McCarthy	Providence	23:54.05
168	Carol Geddes	Providence	25:05.82

WOMEN'S TEAM SCORES -- Top 10
1.	Providence	49
2.	Columbia	58
3.	Penn State	84
4.	Colorado State	89
5.	Tennessee	111
6.	Pennsylvania	232
7.	Cornell	233
8.	South Florida	257
9.	Central Michigan	281
10.	Indiana	311