Amy Hall Completes NAIA Marathon
Amy Hall raced at Nationals for second year
In a field of 33 entrants, St. Louis College of Pharmacy's Amy Hall took 11th place at the NAIA marathon championships held in Edwardsville, Ill., on May 26. Her time of 3:13.44 on the hilly course crushed her previous marathon personal best of 3:21.42 from last year's national marathon championship in Fresno, Calif.
Hall, a third-year at StLCoP, qualified for the national marathon competition by crushing the NAIA "A" qualification standard of 1:33 with a 1:28.39 finish in the Spirit of St. Louis half-marathon race on April 6.
The 2008 marathon was Hall's fifth appearance at an NAIA national championship including two NAIA track & field championships in the marathon and three NAIA cross country championships. Hall is the first and only StLCoP athlete to qualify and compete in a national championship.