Ithaca Women's T&F Maintains Top-10 Ranking, Ninth in National Standings
ITHACA, N.Y. – The Ithaca women’s track & field team maintained its top-10 national ranking, sitting ninth, in the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association’s
week 5 poll announced Wednesday. The Bombers have eight individual results ranking in the national top-20 and an additional five in the top-30. Ithaca ranked sixth in the week 4 poll.
Three-time indoor All-American, junior Emma Dewart (Barker/Barker) is atop the national standings in the pentathlon with a school-record point total of 3,565. She also holds the fourth-best 55-meter hurdles time, having recorded a finish of 8.33 at the Cornell Relays in December. Dewart ranks seventh in the long jump with a leap of 5.64 meters and ninth in the high jump having cleared 1.67 meters.
Senior Marcia McCord (Rancocas Valley/Mount Holly, N.J.) ranks in a trio of events sitting 10h in the 55 dash and the triple jump, and 17th in the 400 dash. A four-time outdoor All-American, McCord has recorded season-best times of 7.21 in the 55 dash and 58.08 in the 400 dash. She also provisionally qualified for nationals with an 11.41-meter mark in the triple.
Senior Kristen DeStefano (Boiceville/Onteora) ranks 19th in the pole vault at a height of 3.45 meters.
Ithaca will next compete on Feb. 25-26 at the NYSCTC Championships hosted by St. Lawrence.