Heidi Baumbach Sets New Career-Best Time at NCAA Championships
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Waverly, Iowa. -- Junior Heidi Baumbach (Lake Placid/Lake Placid) ran to a 114th-place finish out of 279 runners at the NCAA Division III championship meet on Saturday to cap her all-conference, all-state and all-region season.
Baumbach, an eight-time Empire 8 Runner of the Week, finished the six-kilometer course in a career-best 22 minutes, 31.60 seconds to improve her ranking on Ithaca’s all-time record list to seventh.
Baumbach led the Bombers at the 2009 NCAA National Championship by finishing 136th overall in 23:52. She had improved 13 spots on her 149th-place showing as a freshman on the 6K course.