In her final Conference Championship appearance, graduate student Juliet Bottorff captured the ACC Individual Title in Kernersville, N.C.
Bottorff is Duke's third ACC Individual Cross Country Champion and the first Duke University student to accomplish the feat since Shannon Rowbury in 2005.
Bottorff led Ashley Berry and her Duke University Women’s Cross Country teammates to a fifth-place team finish, scoring 130 points. Florida State earned the team title, finishing with 52 points, followed by Virginia (65), Syracuse (108) and Notre Dame (124). Duke averaged 21:12.42 over the 6,000-meter course in Beeson Park.
Senior Berry finished 82nd in her first ACC Championship meet, running a time of 22:23.3.
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