Color photo of University of Oregon cross country runner Caramia Mestler during the 6000 meter race at the PAC-12 Championships on November 1, 2019 at Ash Creek Preserve in Monmouth. Mestler finished 56th in the event, and the Duck women finished fifth in the team competition.
Color photo of University of Oregon cross country runner Amanda Gehrich during the 6000 meter race at the PAC-12 Championships on November 1, 2019 at Ash Creek Preserve in Monmouth. Gehrich finished 20th in the event, and the Duck women finished fifth in the team competition.
Color photo of University of Oregon cross country runner Carly Kleefeld during the 6000 meter race at the PAC-12 Championships on November 1, 2019 at Ash Creek Preserve in Monmouth. Kleefeld finished 90th in the event, and the Duck women finished fifth in the team competition.
Color photo of University of Oregon cross country runner Susan Ejore during the 6000 meter race at the PAC-12 Championships on November 1, 2019 at Ash Creek Preserve in Monmouth. Ejore finished 9th in the event, and the Duck women finished fifth in the team competition.
Color photo of University of Oregon cross country runner Philippa Bowden during the 6000 meter race at the PAC-12 Championships on November 1, 2019 at Ash Creek Preserve in Monmouth. Bowden finished 29th in the event, and the Duck women finished fifth in the team competition.
The team included (from left) Kris Trom, Karen Brown, Julia Anderson, Janet Lovelace and Jenny Bird. Lovelace placed fifth at the regionals in 1977 and twenty-sixth at the AIWA championships in 1978.
Story led the OSU cross-country team to the 1961 NCAA championship – OSU’s first team national championship. He was also the individual medalist, defeating six future Olympians while running barefoot (his trademark style) in subfreezing conditions. Story also ran track as a long distance runner, and earned All-American honors in Spring 1962 in the three-mile run. This photo appeared in the April 1962 Oregon Stater.
This meet, against the University of Oregon, was the first to be run on a new course at Corvallis’ Avery Park. Although the UO edged out OSU on this occasion, the Beavers went on to a tie for sixth place at the NCAA Championships.