Ithaca Women's Track & Field Dominating NYSCTC Indoor Championships
Clinton, N.Y. – The Ithaca women’s track & field team sits first out of 10 teams after day one of competition at the New York State Collegiate Track Conference Indoor Championships hosted by Hamilton. The Bombers have 101 points after seven events scored – 47 points ahead of the next closest team.
Ithaca won six events on Saturday and earned 22 All-NYSCTC performances – 14 individual, eight relay. The Bombers performed well in the preliminaries on the track to earn 11 spots in Saturday’s finals.
Three Bombers placed in the pentathlon as freshman Leigh Martino powered to a career-best performance of 3,000 points to win the event. She won the 60-meter hurdles in 9.94 and the 800 run in 2:22.13, while finishing second in the long jump with a 4.78-meter mark. Junior Julie Schaeffer finished fifth in the pentathlon with 2,599 points and senior Ashley Dlubac followed in sixth with a point total of 2,593. Schaeffer ran second in the high jump with a clear of 1.52 meters and Dlubac won the shot put with a heave of 9.61 meters.
Four Bombers earned points in the shot put as senior Kate Middleton won the event with an ECAC-qualifying heave of 12.13 meters. Junior Colleen Garman, freshman Corrine Taylor and senior Jessica Hoeffner followed in sixth, seventh and eighth places, respectively. Garman threw a distance of 11.02 meters, Taylor 10.94 meters and
Hoeffner 10.84 meters.
Senior Emma Dewart won the high jump, clearing an ECAC-qualifying 1.68 meters. The jump tied the Margaret Bundy Scott Fieldhouse record set in 1999.
Senior Heidi Baumbach won the 5,000 run in 18:22.81 to qualify for the ECAC Indoor Championships. Classmate Molly Quinn crossed the finish line fourth in 18:54.49 and sophomore Allison Bartkowiak sixth in 19:27.64.
Ithaca’s 4x200 relay team comprised of
Martino and freshmen Alex Lewis, Rachel Friedman and Harmony Graves won the event clocking time of 1:46.51 to set a new fieldhouse record and hit the ECAC qualifier.
The Bombers placed three in the long jump as Dewart powered to victory with an ECAC-good leap of 5.44 meters. Freshman Emilia Scheemaker placed fourth with a mark of 5.01 meters and junior Amanda Rissmeyer eighth with a distance of 4.75 meters.
Senior Molly Brown, junior Ebonie Howard and freshmen Hannah Wright and Emily Smith teamed to place second in the distance medley relay with an ECAC-qualifying time of 12:42.03.
Ithaca will fill four of the nine spots in the 400 dash finals as senior Becca Coffman clocked a 1:00.90 finish to win her heat, Graves a time of 1:01.04, also winning her heat, sophomore Martyann Chromik a time of 1:02.06 and freshman Kristen Swanson a time of 1:02.22.
The Bombers are sending three to the finals in the 60 hurdles as Dewart won the preliminaries in an ECAC-qualifying time of 9.16. Junior Tammia Hubbard also hit the ECAC standard with a finish of 9.32, while freshman Christine Benway followed with a time of 9.54.
Dewart and Friedman both qualified for the 60 dash finals with prelim finishes of 8.13 and 8.18, respectively.
Graves and Friedman will compete in Saturday’s 200 dash finals. Graves clocked an ECAC-qualifying time of 26.90 to win her preliminary heat, while Friedman finished in 27.03.
Day One Results