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A team of University of North Dakota aviators placed second overall among 56 international teams competing this year in the all-women Air Race Classic.

The UND team—Frozen Force—also won second place in a field of 17 collegiate division teams. This was UND's third year in a race that's been going annually since before World War II. The team returned safely to Grand Forks this week.

Three UND aviators—all students in the John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences (UND Aerospace)—were in the cockpit on this year's team: Jennifer Pinkowski, Ashburn, Va., pilot (she was the navigator on last year's team); Carly Namihira, Honolulu, co-pilot (she was the pilot last year); and Christina Druskins, Midland, Mich., navigator. The team's ground crew was headed by Lydia Wiff, Cologne, Minn.