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cavalier profile Cross Country/Track Kathleen Stevens enters her third season at Virginia as KATHLEEN STEVENS Redshirt Second-Year • Championships, the redshirt second-year from Blacks- burg, Va., finished 35th at the NCAA Southeast Regional and placed 167th at the NCAA Championships. "It didn't feel real, ran to get a spot in regionals, and I qualified in like 48th place out of 50 runners, but did well there and made it to nationals. It was just insane. track and field season, after Todd Morgan joined the Virginia staff as head women's cross country and assistant Stevens said she really began to settle in during the " " Stevens said of her postseason run. "I a key component for the Cavaliers' 18th-ranked women's cross country team. She finished strong last year, but only after dealing with multiple coaching changes, adapting to the rigors of UVa life and coping with an illness that caused her to redshirt in 2010-11. After coming in 21st at the 2011 ACC Cross Country track and field coach in January 2012. "I had been working really hard all year, but I hadn't had the training I needed to peak and run good times," Stevens said. "I was pretty fit, but not fit to race. But Coach Morgan told us exactly what to do and made us race sharp and we raced well. vens believes his training and coaching was critical to her 2012 success on the track. She recorded a time of 16:26.91 — the third-fastest for a rookie and seventh-best in UVa history — to place 12th in the 5,000 meters at the NCAA East Preliminaries, and then finished 21st in the same event at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. Due to the of loss of second-year Chelsea Ley — who Despite being with Morgan for only a short time, Ste- " said. "This is the type of pressure you want. Not negative pressure, but just the desire to keep improving under Coach Morgan." earned all-region honors as a harrier in 2011 — to a stress fracture, Stevens and others will be asked to step up for the cross country squad this fall. "There is pressure, but it's very good pressure, Photo by Matt Riley/courtesy UVa — Greg Waters ◆ CAVALIER CORNER ◆ OCTOBER 2012 ◆ 52 " Stevens