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Marissa Coombs Sets Career Best Mark at NCAA National Championship -- Junior Marissa Coombs ran the best 6K race of her Virginia Wesleyan career on Saturday at the NCAA Division III Cross Country National Championship. Her mark of 22:21.3 beat her previous best mark, ran at the Gettysburg Invitational in October, by 22 seconds. Coombs is the first female cross country athlete in Virginia Wesleyan history to compete at the national championship.She finished 160th out of the 280 best cross country runners in the country. Amy Regan of Stevens Institute won the championship with a time of 20:16.4. (Pictured with VWC Krista Littleton)