SCIAC Honors Female Athlete of the Week: Pomona-Pitzer’s Anna Scharfen
SCIAC Honors Female Athlete of the Week: Pomona-Pitzer's Anna Scharfen
PP: Anna Scharfen, Cross
Country
Pomona-Pitzer senior Anna Scharfen upset the field
Saturday to win the 2008 SCIAC Cross Country championship meet.
Scharfen, from McLean, VA, surged into the lead with 400 meters to
go to win in 23:00 over the grassy, rolling 6000 meter (3.7 mile)
course. Scharfen, only third in the SCIAC Multi-Duals two
weeks prior, becomes the fifth Pomona-Pitzer woman to win the SCIAC
Championship meet title since the conference's women's start in
1977. Pomona-Pitzer scored 64 points to finish second in the
women's team scoring, behind Claremont-M-S (34), and ahead of
Redlands (77), Whittier (97),
Occidental (106), Cal Lutheran (138), Caltech (197) and La Verne
(incomplete). Behind Scharfen for the Sagehens were senior
Maddy Kieselhorst (6th, 23:49) and Rose Haag (9th, 24:25). Those
two, along with Scharfen, earn First Team All-SCIAC honors. Zoe
Meyers (25:07) and Kayla Eland (27th, 25:15) rounded out the
Sagehen scorers.
