Assuming Seattle Pacific comes through (as I have divined) in Friday night's distance medley relay, Jessica Pixler (Seattle Pacific) will be running for her second gold medal of the weekend. Owner of a time that is 16 seconds (!) faster than the next-fastest, it's hard to imagine a bigger favorite. She won last year's indoor race by five seconds. But one never knows, and -- to borrow from sage (?) TV wisdom -- that's why they run the race.
Teammate Jane Larson (Seattle Pacific) and Alicia Nelson (Adams State) battled in Seattle earlier this year; they'll do the same for second this weekend. I'll take Nelson at (mild) altitude. They won't face Neely Spence (Shippensburg), who opted out of this event.
In fact, Seattle Pacific and Adams State each have three in Friday's prelims; the owner of the most points in this event could go a long ways toward determining the women's mythical d2cross Indoor Team Champ.
Grand Valley State has two, including outdoors 1,500 third-placer Monica Kinney.
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