FLRC Newsletter - May 2003
	Final Four, Frozen Four and Gillian

Another championship season for Central New York athletes.

The Frozen Four for the Cornell University hockey team; the Final Four - and a National Championship! - for the Syracuse University basketball team; and a national masters championship individual track title for Gillian Sharp.

Sharp, a lieutenant in the Ithaca Fire Department, won the women's 40-44 age-group title in the mile Saturday at the National Masters Indoor Track and Field Championships, at the Reggie Lewis Center in Boston. The 41-year-old mother of two finished the mile in 5:14.43 -- a career-best performance.

No stranger to elite-level competition, Sharp won the 1993 national summer biathlon (shoot and run) individual title; and in the 1990s, almost qualified in the ski/shoot biathlon for the winter Olympics. At the age of 40, Sharp qualified for the 2001 world summer biathlon team, but the competition was canceled due to the September 11 tragedy. She also is a member of the Finger Lakes Runners Club masters squad which won the national masters 8K cross country team title twice; and was the anchor for the 4 x 1600-meter relay team which set a pending American and world masters record in December.

Congratulations to Gill!

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