Triathlon Sweeps Regular Season with Top Team Finish

HUDDLESTON, Va. – Arizona State women's triathlon delivered another first place finish as a team, placing three women in the top-5 – including the top two spots – and all five Sun Devil finishers in the top-7 in their final regular season race of 2019. The finish is the squad's eighth-straight top mark as a team dating back to the 2017 season.
 

"Really proud of the team's strong performance today at the Eastern Regional qualifier at Smith Mountain Lake State Park in Virginia," head coach Cliff English said.
 

Junior Hannah Henry registered her first win of the season in the East Regional Qualifier yesterday. The Canadian, who missed her first race of the season to win silver with Team Canada in the Pan American games, took the top mark with an overall time of 59:36, four seconds faster than freshman Sun Devil Liberty Ricca. The times are the first sub-hour times in collegiate triathlon in 2019.
 
Ricca followed in second place with a time of 59:50, and Catherine Giuseffi took fourth at 1:02:36. Rebecca Naughton and Olivia Jenks rounded out the Sun Devils in competition placing sixth and seventh, respectively.
 
Looking at overall results from all three regular season races, the Sun Devils again dominated. The 2019 squad took 11 of the top-20 overall times among all three divisions of collegiate triathlon, including the only two sub-hour marks.
 

"We will be filling a very strong team and looking forward to defending our national title in less than four weeks," English said.

 
The Sun Devils have almost four weeks to train, with their sights now set on the USA Triathlon National Championship in Tempe. Fans can keep up with all the action by following SunDevilTri on Twitter.