Senior Ana Tucker Posts Top 40 Finish Among D-I Runners at Louisville

Senior Ana Tucker

In a field primarily featuring NCAA Division I runners, senior Ana Tucker topped the Hope College women's cross country team with a Top 40 finish at the Greater Louisville Classic on Saturday.

Tucker (Midland, Michigan / H.H. Dow) clocked a 5K of 17 minutes, 26.2 seconds to finish 39th out of 373 runners in the Blue Division.

The Flying Dutch finished 29th out of 41 teams with 827 points.

Senior Ellie Jankowski (Granger, Indiana / Penn) placed 125th by clocking a time of 18:15.9.

Junior Rebecca Markham (Hoffman Estates, Illinois / William Fremd) recorded a 193rd place run of 18:42.7.

Other finishers for Hope were:

Freshman Madison Stern (Saline, Michigan / Saline) 267th, 19:14.5;
Freshman Leanne Krombeen (Grandville, Michigan / Calvin Christian), 277th, 19:18.2;
Senior Anna Mason (Zeeland, Michigan / Libertas Christian) 284th, 19:22; and
Freshman Alyson Kelly (Gaines, Michigan / Linden) 326th, 19:46.3.