ECAC Competition Wraps Up; Bombers Place Fourth
Results
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – Empire 8 women's track and field teams completed competition in the ECAC Division III track and field championships at Springfield College.
The 25th-ranked Ithaca College women’s track & field team tallied 33 points on Friday en route to a fourth-place finish out of 57 teams. The Bombers scored 51 total points to earn its sixth top-10 finish in as many years.
Stevens Institiute of Technology finished 46th, Nazareth placed 49th and Utica ranked 51.
Ithaca senior Jenn Randall won the 800-meter run in 2:11.77. Classmate Tammia Hubbard placed second in the 100 high hurdles with a career-best time of 14.44 and senior Amanda Rissmeyer placed third in the high jump with a clear of 1.69 meters.
Freshman Emily Ziegler placed fifth in the heptathlon with a season-best 4,397-point performance. She closed out competition Friday with a mark of 5.15 meters in the long jump, a toss of 27.15 meters in the javelin and a time of 2:33.77 in the 800 run.
The Bombers’ 4x800 relay team of freshman Michaela Cioffredi, seniors Annmarie Charno and Rachel Spirito and rookie Rachelle Sartori placed sixth with a 9:34.94 finish.
Junior Elaine Abdulky finished seventh in the discus with a season-best throw of 38.37 meters.
Two members on the Stevens squad re-established new school records in the high jump and heptathlon events. Freshman Gladys Njoku finished sixth overall in the high jump with a mark of 1.64 meters (5 feet, 4.5 inches) and was one of five leapers to clear the bar at that height. Sophomore Amira Dardir totaled 3,930 points in the heptathlon to place eighth overall. Dardir was eighth after Day One of the competition and topped her previous school record by 50 points.
Nazareth feshman Taylor Pierson turned in a sixth-place finish in the long jump. Pierson's leap of 5.62 meters was the equivalent of 18 feet, 5 1/4 inches, just shy of her school-record leap of 5.63 meters (18 feet, 5 1/2 inches) earlier this spring. Pierson now hopes that distance will be good enough to qiualify her for the NCAA Division III Championship meet May 23-25 at LaCrosse, Wis. Pierson placed 10th in the long jump at the national meet during the indoor season.
Utica freshman Ashton Villeneuve led UC tallying its only two points of the meet on Thursday in the 10,000-meter run with a personal-best time of 38:14.66.