Ithaca Women’s Track & Field Wins ECAC Championship!

Ithaca Women’s Track & Field Wins ECAC Championship!

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RESULTS

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – The Ithaca College women's indoor track & field team won the ECAC Championships on Saturday at the Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex on Staten Island with 77 points. Two individuals and one relay team broke school records to highlight the afternoon. It is Ithaca's fourth overall ECAC title and first since 2013.

Junior Katherine Pitman, sophomore Taryn Cordani and the 4x800-meter relay team of seniors Kristin Lynn, Anna Fay, sophomore Sierra Grazia and freshman Emilie Mertz all broke school records on Saturday.

Pitman won the pole vault with a mark of 4.15 meters to top her previous best performance by .06 meters. She now ranks first in the nation on the pole vault is now just .02 meters shy of the top showing at the NCAA Division III Championship meet set in 2011. The performance is also a new ECAC Championship record.

Cordani clocked a time of 9:46.18 in the 3,000-meter run to surpass her own school record by nearly eight seconds. On Saturday, Cordani bested the field by 15 seconds and now holds the best time in ECAC Championship history.

The 4x800 squad clocked a time of 9:26.65 to break the 14-year record of 9:27.16 to place second overall in the event.

Junior Brandy Smith won the weight throw with a mark of 17.31 meters, while sophomore Sophia Feuer was another first place performer in the 500-meter dash in a time of 1:17.53.

Seniors Alex Rechen and Anna Fay took fourth in the pole vault and 1,000-meter run. Rechen cleared 3.61 meters and Fay ran a time of 2:59.00.

Grazia claimed seventh in the 800-meter run at 2:17.96 and the 4x400-meter relay claimed eighth in 4:00.79. The relay team was made up of Feuer, senior Eliza Dewart, freshman Britney Swarthout and junior Colleen Smith.


NAZARETH
Samantha Goble posted a personal-best time of 2:15.82 in the 800-meter run, senior Amanda Entress finished eighth and 15th respectively in the triple jump (11.00 meters) and the long jump (4.97 meters) and sophomore Emily Soeder finished 10th in the high jump (1.59 meters).

SJFC
The women's team did not score any points on the day, but Fisher's 4X800 relay team of Sammy Van Gee, Kaitlin Rizzo,Juliette Miller and Sarah Coon set a new College record with a time of 9:52.92 to place ninth overall.