Three Tigers shatter school record at SFSU Invitational

Daley finished the 5k race with a new school record time of 19:04.7.

Oct. 2, 2005

San Francisco, Calif. - Three different Tigers finished with a better time than ever posted before in Pacific cross country history as the Tigers finished in fourth place finish out of six teams at the San Francisco State Invite on Saturday, Oct. 2.

Pacific sophomore Jessica Daley (Antioch, Calif.) paced the Tigers as she finished the 5k race with a new school record time of 19:04.7.  Freshman Ainsley Cray (Rhinelander, Wisc.) and sophomore Jill Himlan (Santa Cruz, Calif.), were only seconds behind Daley as Cray finished in 19:25 and Himlan came in at 19:32.  All three runners eclipsed the old Pacific record in a 5K, which was held by Cynthia Kriegar with a time of 19:46 at the Sundodger Invite in 1999.  

Pacific will be back in action on Saturday, Oct. 9 at the Titan Invitational in La Jolla, Calif.


Pacific Times:

Overall Place Individual Time
11th Jessica Daley * 19:04.7
18th Ainsley Cray 19:25
21st Jill Himlan 19:32
44th Kiron Punwani 20:50
45th Kiyomi Urbas 20:56
46th Francesca Au 21:01

* New School Record


Final Team Standings

Overall Place Tean Total
1st California 36
2nd Univ. of San Francisco 38
3rd Sacramento State 80
4th Pacific 99
5th  Cal State Hayward 117
6th San Francisco State 140