CHARLOTTE, N.C.- Competing in an off distance, Tanya Zeferjahn (Hesperia, Calif., Hesperia High School) managed an NCAA automatic qualifying mark and new school record with a 4:53.33 mile at the New Balance Collegiate Invitational in New York Saturday. 

Already qualified with a nation leading 16:13.00 5,000-meters, Zeferjahn will be joined at the NCAA national indoor championships in Albuquerque, N.M., by teammate Meagan Nedlo (Mt. Pleasant, TX, Pittsburg, HS) who posted an auto 5k mark the day before.

Zeferjahn finished fourth in the first of two championship heats.

Women 1 Mile Run Championship
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    Name                    Year School                  Seed     Finals 
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Finals
  1 Schappert, Nicole            Villanova            4:40.00    4:35.97  
  2 Infeld, Emily                Georgetown           4:37.00    4:36.83  
  3 O'Connell, Jessica           West Virginia        4:40.00    4:43.73  
  4 Tomlin, Renee                Georgetown           4:38.00    4:47.34  
  5 Smith, Alison                Villanova                       4:49.42  
  6 Gregory, Lauren              Georgetown           4:43.00    4:50.05  
  7 Smith, Leonie                Iona                 4:44.00    4:50.86  
  8 Schneider, Rachel            Georgetown           4:45.50    4:51.68  
  9 Beutler, Ashley              Wisconsin            4:48.35    4:52.62  
 10 Farias-Eisner, Anna          Duke                 4:43.00    4:53.11  
 11 Zeferjahn, Tanya             Queens Univ.         4:49.00    4:53.33  
 12 Borduin, Lauren              Georgetown           4:46.00    4:53.38  
 13 Simpson, Brooke              Villanova            4:48.00    4:55.60  
 14 Leutner, Lisa                Fla Atl              4:47.00    4:56.68