Broken Arrow 10K Women: Czeschin Surges Late to Steal the Win

• Raegan Czeschin, 16, wins in 1:01:19 — running the fastest women's split on the Snow King→Finish segment to move from 4th to 1st in the closing stretch.
• Sixteen-year-olds sweep the podium — Czeschin (1:01:19), Zoey Crosby (1:01:35), and Jetta Betts (1:01:38) finish 1-2-3, separated by just 19 seconds.
• Georgia Bishop, 15, takes 4th in 1:02:58 — posting the 3rd-fastest women's closing split to move up from 5th, with 14-year-old Elsa Engeseth rounding out the top five in 1:04:15.
• A field of teenagers: every finisher in the top 20 is 18 or younger, with five 14-year-olds cracking the top 15.

The headline story of the women's race is a closing-stretch takeover. Zoey Crosby held the lead heading into the Snow King→Finish segment, but Raegan Czeschin — running from Crowley Lake, CA — had other ideas. Czeschin posted the fastest women's split on that final stretch, moving from 4th all the way to 1st to cross in 1:01:19 at a 9:52/mi average. It's the kind of finish that demands respect on any course, let alone one sitting between 6,300 and nearly 8,000 feet of elevation where the thin air punishes anyone who pushes too hard, too late.

Crosby and Betts made it an all-16-year-old podium, finishing in 1:01:35 and 1:01:38 respectively — a 19-second window covering all three of them. Crosby, who had led the women's race, faded only slightly on that closing segment (4th-fastest women's split), while Betts ran the 2nd-fastest closing split of any woman in the field. That means Czeschin's surge was the decisive move — she was the one who ran it fastest when it mattered most, with Betts closing hard behind her and Crosby holding on for second.

Georgia Bishop, 15, of Steamboat Springs added another layer to the story, charging from 5th to 4th with the 3rd-fastest closing split and finishing in 1:02:58. Elsa Engeseth, just 14 years old, moved up from 7th to 5th with the 5th-fastest closing split, crossing in 1:04:15. Sophia Rodriguez (6th, 1:04:21), Flora Caputo-Wilkowski (7th, 1:05:15), and Josephine Smeets (8th, 1:05:25) followed closely, with Britta Johnson (9th, 1:06:33) and Evie Fisher (10th, 1:09:22) rounding out the top ten. Across 39 finishers, this was a race defined by youth, altitude, and a late move that no one at the front could answer.