Day 1 Complete For Women's T&F At ECAC Championships
Results
Empire 8 track and field athletes competed on day one of the 2014 Division III ECAC Outdoor Track & Field Championships. The competition is being held at the Ned Harkness Track & Field and hosted by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute of Technology.
Utica senior Katie Day and sophomore Sarah Wiatr shattered their own school-records. Day clocked a record time of 11:02.38, in the 3000 steeplechase cracking her old record by .14, as she tallied an impressive third place finish and moved to 20th nationally. Waitr broke her own program-record (11.89 meters) in the triple jump by 11 inches with a leap of 12.00 meters. She tallied a second place finish and currently pushed up into eighth place in the country.
Nazareth sophomore
Gabrielle LeBihan finished eighth in the 3,000-meter steeplechase with a time of 11:13.57, a few seconds off her personal-best time of 11:02.76. Freshman
Emily Thompson competed in the 5,000-meter run and placed 20th in 18:31.52.
Ithaca sophomore
Alex Rechen snapped the pole vault school record with a 3.55-meter clear to place eighth in the event. She had tied the previous school record of 3.50 meters held by Kristen DeStefano since 2010 on April 12.
Junior
Emilia Scheemaker placed third in the triple jump tying a season-best mark of 11.84 meters.
Graduate student
Carly Graham finished fifth in the 3,000-meter steeplechase with a season-best 11:11.61 finish.
Ithaca's 4x400 relay clocked another season-best performance with a seventh-place finish of 3:55.01. The relay was comprised of junior
Harmony Graves, freshman
Colleen Smith and sophomores
Eliza Dewart and
Christine Kelly.
Sophomore
Kristen Pompey ranks seventh in the heptathlon through four events. She raced to a 17.35 finish in the 100 hurdles, cleared 1.48 meters in the high jump, threw 9.20 meters in the shot put and finished the 200 in 27.84.
The St. John Fisher quartet of
Chelsea Cleveland,
Morgan Mastin,
Kaitlin Rizzo and
Sydney Saccone peaked at the right time eclipsing the school record in the 4 x 400 relay clocking a time of 4:01.98.
Freshman
Allison Corretore completed the first four events of the heptathlon Thursday setting a personal mark with 2,316 points, six points ahead of her previous best, and sits in sixth place with three events remaining. Corretore placed fifth in both the 100 meter hurdles (15.75) and the shot put (9.25 meters).
Stevens Institute of Technology junior
Amira Dardir currently sits in second overall in the heptathlon with 2,580 points. Dardir set personal bests in the 200-meter dash (28.49 seconds) and the 100-meter hurdles. She won the high jump at 1.63 meters and also finished first in the hurdles with 15.26 seconds.
Senior
Tiffany Evangelou established a new school record in the 100 hurdles with a time of 15.02 seconds and finished 12th overall.