Teter may never try to win the pole again.
Following three years of starting the race from the front at the green flag, the Teter women's team did what it always wanted to do: finish the race in front at the checkered flag.
With a power move to separate from the rest of the leaders around lap 80, Teter rode solo in the front for the final 20 laps to win the race by more than 10 seconds.
Junior Caitlin Van Kooten, who won every Spring series event, made the race-altering move for the riders and then also rode the final seven laps to win.
"Let's attack before they do," Van Kooten said about their team's race strategy.
With Teter in commanding lead, a frightening accident on lap 90 slowed the rest of the pack. Race contenders Pi Beta Phi and Delta Gamma were involved in the accident in which the teams clipped wheels amidst slower race traffic. Pi Beta Phi senior Caroline Brown, the race hero of the 2009 race in which she rode more than 70 laps to lead her team to the win, left the track in an ambulance.
"There were some slower riders in the middle of the track and the faster riders came through and they just bumped," Pi Beta Phi coach Jim Kirkham said.
Kirkham said Brown may have suffered a broken collar bone.
The crash also affected the rest of the pack - with several late yellow laps, contending teams had little chance to catch Teter.
Second place was Alpha Gamma Delta, followed by Delta Gamma, Kappa Alpha Theta and Kappa Kappa Gamma.
