April 24, 2010
Williams Women Capture 10th Straight NESCAC Title
Complete Results
MEDFORD, MA--Performing without some of their
top distance athletes, the Ephs still cruised to victory at the
NESCAC Championship, accumulating 188 points and several
provisional qualifiers for the NCAA Championship. Second-place
Tufts secured 144.5 points, followed by Middlebury with 140.5.
Both runners and field athletes performed within the range of
the provisional qualifiers for NCAAs, although not all earned
places in the rankings high enough to secure entry in the meet.
Tanasia Hoffler ’13 was one athlete who positioned herself
comfortably in the rankings, garnering a provisional qualifier of
5.68m in the long jump and placing herself at the top of the
rankings in the triple jump with an automatic qualifier of 12.16m.
Hoffler won both events at the NESCAC meet.
Karyn Moss ’12 and Brooke Johnson ’13 also flirted
with provisional qualifiers in the triple jump, as Moss cleared
11.53m for 3rd place at NESCACs and Johnson cleared
11.49m to take 4th.
Provisional qualifiers were present on the oval, as well.
Hillary Higgs ’12 bettered her previous qualifier in the 200m
dash, winning the event in 25.05 seconds. This time is not quite
fast enough to put her in the midst of the NCAA field, however.
Elise Johnson ’10 has already earned an automatic qualifier
of 14.22 in the 100m hurdles, and today she ran 14.70 in the finals
to win the event by a substantial .61 seconds. In the 3000m
steeplechase, Sarah Tory ’11 flirted with the provisional
time, running 11:15.82, just 2.82 seconds off of the outer limit
for the provisional qualifier.
The Williams women dominated the sprints, taking 1st
through 3rd in the 100m dash, 1st, 3rd and
4th in the 200m, and winning the 4x100m. Nora Mitchell
’10 took second in the 400m hurdles, running 1:05.30.
In the mid-distance events, Lizzy Danhakl ’11 doubled in
the 1500m and the 800m, running solid times of 4:40.29 and 2:17.50,
respectively. Olga Kondratjeva ’10 finished 6th in
the 800m, just ahead of Danhakl in 2:16.65.
Elly Teitsworth ’10 and Lauren Goldstein-Kral ’12
worked together in the 10k to capture 3rd and
4th places in 39:00.53 and 39:18.88. Grace Babula
’12 took advantage of her last chance to qualify for Div. III
New Englands and ran a personal best of 41:22.56. Distance athletes
Bret Scofield ’10 and Annie Dear ’13 took advantage of
the week to train through the NESCAC Championship and prepare for
Div. IIIs.
The Ephs return to Tufts next weekend for Div. IIIs as
championship season gets into full swing.
