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<div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Calibri" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 27, 2018</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Calibri" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Contact- Brendan Sullivan (401) 865-1245</span></font></div>
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<div align="center" style="text-align: center; margin: 0px;"><font face="Calibri" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Providence Competes At The 123</b><font size="-1"><b><sup>rd</sup></b></font><b> Penn Relays</b></span></font></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align: center; margin: 0px;"><font face="Calibri" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><i>Catarina Rocha finished second in the women’s 3,000 meters.</i></span></font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Calibri" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>PHILADELPHIA, PA. </b>– The Providence College track & field team competed at the 123<font size="-1"><sup>rd</sup></font> running of the Penn Relays on Thursday, April
26. The Friars had athletes competing in the women’s 3,000 meters, women’s 5,000 meters and the men’s 5,000 meters.</span></font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Calibri" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Graduate student Catarina Rocha (Peabody, Mass.) and sophomore Abbey Wheeler (Pine City, N.Y.) raced in the fastest heat of the women’s 3,000 meters. Rocha took control of
the race early and attempted to break the field by making it an honest pace. She would ultimately finish second overall in a time 9:19.72. Wheeler was not far behind, taking sixth overall with a time of 9:26.00.</span></font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Calibri" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Sophomore Liam Harris (Douglas, County Cork, Ireland) raced in the second section of the men’s 5,000 meters. Harris ran a tactically smart race as he positioned himself in
the back of the lead pack. Harris closed well when the move was made with 300 meters remaining and finished third in his heat with a new personal best time of 14:18.17.</span></font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Calibri" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Freshman Maria Coffin (Annapolis, Md.) had a solid race in the top heat of the women’s 5,000 meters. Coffin placed 11<font size="-1"><sup>th</sup></font> in the heat in a
personal best time of 16:44.40. The race was won by Millie Paladino, who is racing unattached this season, in a time of 16:08.15.</span></font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Calibri" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Providence’s next race will be the Brown Springtime Invitational on Sunday, April 29.</span></font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Calibri" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>-GO FRIARS!- </b> </span></font></div>
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