Wake Forest Athletics
Deacs' Snyder Earns All-American Status
6/3/2000 12:00:00 AM | Women's Track and Field
June 3, 2000
DURHAM, N.C. - Wake Forest senior Jill Snyder, competing in her second consecutive NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, placed 10th overall in the women's 1,500-meter run at Duke's Wallace Wade Stadium tonight. Her finish earned her All-America honors for the third time in her career.
Snyder completed the race in 4:23.85, three seconds shy of her best time this season. Her 10th-place finish was three spots better than her finish in the same event at the NCAA's a season ago. Snyder's personal best time of 4:19.40 in the 1,500-meters lists second all-time in Wake record books.
She recorded her season-best time in the semifinals of the 1,500-meter race on Thursday, when she finished in 4:20.
"I gave it everything I had. I was shooting to get to the medalist stand, and I'm a little disappointed I didn't get that," said Snyder. "I was really just trying to stay relaxed and with the pack in the first half of the race. I didn't make as strong a move as I wanted to after that - I just didn't have it in me."
"Jill did everything she could, but she just didn't have anything left," head coach Annie Bennett said. "It was a very fast race, and she ran out of gas with about 500 meters to. I know she's disappointed, but she did her best."
