Site: Buffalo Stadium, Buffalo, NY
Event: 1998 NCAA Outdoor Championships

Kampfe Earns All-America Honor at NCAA Outdoor Championship

Buffalo, NY -- Elizabeth Kampfe (Decatur, IL/MacArthur HS) ran the best 10,000-meters of her life at the 1998 NCAA Outdoor Championship to earn a ninth place finish and her second track and field All-America citation.

Kampfe finished ninth with a pace of 34:35.56 and was named All-America for running the eighth fastest time among the American contingent in the race. In addition, Tania Longe (Sellebakk, Norway/St. Olav) is sixth in the heptathlon after the first day of competition with her best events, the triple jump and long jump, still to come in the second day of competition.

Notes:

-- Kampfe is the third Michigan runner to earn All-America honors in the 10,000-m run. The other two being Lisa Larsen and Melanie Weaver, both in 1983.

-- Kampfe has now been named All-America three times during the 1997-98 campaign after also earning that recognition in cross country and indoor track and field.

1998 NCAA OUTDOOR CHAMPIONSHIP WOMEN'S RESULTS (day one)

10,000-METER RUN
1) Skieresz, Amy (Arizona)	33:04.12
9) Kampfe, Elizabeth (Mich.)	34:35.56

* NCAA Automatic Qualifying Time

# NCAA Provisional Qualifying Time

! Michigan Record

@ Meet Record

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