GENEVA, OH – Carissa Hudson started the day off in the finals of the women's Mile Run at the NAIA National Championships for Spring Arbor University on Saturday afternoon.  Hudson went straight through to the finals when yesterday's preliminary races were called off when other runners were pulled for various reasons. 

Hudson placed third in the event with nearly a personal best clocking a time of 4:58.60.  Her personal best time is 4:58.43 set in 2012.

The top eight finish earned Hudson NAIA All-American status for 2013.  Hudson repeated her third place performance from last season earning her back to back All-American honors.

Here are the results from the event.

Women's 1 Mile Run

Finals

  1 Holt, Hillary                JR    College of Idaho            4:49.49 

  2 Hunt, Kellian              FR    Biola                            4:57.52 

  3 Hudson, Carissa        SR    Spring Arbor                  4:58.60 

  4 Dean, Rachael           SR    St. Xavier                      5:01.97 

  5 Hughes, Bailey          FR    Carroll                           5:02.37 

  6 Swanson, Heidi          JR    CSU-San Marcos           5:02.40 

  7 Schwalenberg, Jena   SR    Concordia (Neb.)            5:05.99 

  8 Richter, Ana              JR     Rocky Mountain             5:06.18 

  9 Hart, Rachael            SO    Rocky Mountain             5:10.87 

 10 Harkema, Merissa    SR     Dordt                             5:12.99 

 11 Coelho, Karina         SR     Embry-Riddle                  5:18.07 

 -- Johnson, Sarah         JR     College of Idaho                DNF