LOCK HAVEN, PA – The Johns Hopkins women's cross country team placed five runners in the top 12 to win the program's 16^th consecutive NCAA Division III Mid-Atlantic Regional Championship Saturday afternoon, earning the Blue Jays an automatic bid to their 17^th NCAA Championship. In addition to winning Saturday's 6K, all seven Johns Hopkins runners finished in the top 35 to earn All-Region honors, marking the 10^th time in the last 11 years the Blue Jays have achieved the feat.
 
Emma Puetz led all Hopkins runners in her return to the course, climbing 11 spots from the 1.6K marker to the finish to cross the line in third with a season-best time of 21:14.8. Competing for just the third time all season, the graduate student put together the second-fastest time run by a Blue Jay this season and the fourth-fastest time at a Regional Championship in program history.
 
Next to cross the line was Adriana Catalano, with the junior continuing her impressive stretch of races en route to a fourth-place finish at the Regional Championships. The junior sat in seventh for the majority of Saturday's 6K before showing an impressive kick to climb three spots in the final kilometer and cross the line in 21:21.1.
 
Jamie Stelnik enjoyed a career day in Lock Haven, climbing 17 spots from the 1.6K mark to the 5K mark before crossing the line in sixth with a time of 21:27.0, crushing her season-best time by nearly 30 seconds. Hopkins' final top 10 finisher was Sydney Shock, with the freshman fluctuating between ninth and 10^th for the entirety of the 6K before settling into ninth at the finish line with a time of 21:34.5.
 
The Blue Jays' final point scorer was Aisling Callahan, who finished in 12^th with a season-best time of 21:40.6. The junior found herself in 24^th at the first marker, methodically working her way up the pack before kicking past Salisbury's Rachel Roberts at the line to secure the 12^th-place finish.
 
Also earning All-Region recognition for finishing in the top 35 were Triya Roy (19^th / 21:56.4) and Phoebe White (24^th / 22:07.3) to round out another impressive afternoon for the third-ranked Blue Jays.
 
Hopkins took the championship for the 16^th consecutive year with a meet-low 34 points, with Carnegie Mellon (76) and Gettysburg (150) completing the top three. Washington & Jefferson's Claire Anderson took the individual title with a time of 21:04.9.
 
Next up for the Blue Jays are the NCAA Championships Saturday, Nov. 23 where they will look to compete for the program's ninth national title.