Leah Cowdrey Class: Senior Hometown: Silver Spring, Md. High School: Montgomery Blair HS Position: Distance

2006 OUTDOOR TRACK - Placed 22nd in the 1,500 meters at the Navy Invitational with a time of 5:32.97.

2006 INDOOR TRACK - Did not compete.

2005 CROSS COUNTRY - Redshirt season.

BEFORE MARYLAND - Did not begin to run seriously until she enrolled at Syracuse, where she was a member of the club team for two years... lettered four times in swimming and twice in field hockey at nearby Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Md... two-time MVP and captain of swim team... holds school's breaststroke record.

PERSONAL - Daughter of Joan Phalen and Charles Cowdrey... has four brothers and one sister... cousin A.J. Godbolt is a midfielder on the Maryland men's soccer team... a journalism major... was editor-in-chief of her high school newspaper... interests include sports, traveling and writing.