Teams: Women's Track & Field: Schedule & Results

COLLEGE WOMEN'S OUTDOOR TRACK & FIELD RESULTS
New England Division 3 Championships
Friday-Saturday, May 1-2, 2009
At Springfield, MA

Meet Results

Junior Andrea Ferri is New England Div. 3's second-best heptathlon athlete

SPRINGFIELD Sophomore Stephanie McNamara (North Attleborough, MA) added to an already amazing outdoor season for the Tufts women's track & field team by running a meet record, school record and NCAA automatic qualifying time of 35:32.79 in the 10,000 meters at the New England Division 3 Championships hosted by Springfield College on Friday and Saturday.

McNamara's time to win the race was over 15 seconds faster than the NCAA automatic qualifying time of 35:48. She broke the regional Division 3 record of 36:27.96 ran by Julia Bensen from Williams College in 2003. She also erased the 10-year old Tufts mark of 37:08.88 by Cindy Manning in 1999. McNamara is now automatically qualified in the 10K, 5K and 1,500.

The Jumbos placed sixth as a team with 56 points. MIT won the meet with a 152.50 score. Tufts was fourth among NESCAC schools, following Williams (143), Middlebury (68) and Bowdoin (62).

Junior Andrea Ferri (Dracut, MA) had a runner-up performance in the heptathlon, scoring 3,789 points. She ran a 200 meters time of 26.88 seconds to score 722 points in the event. She also had the best javelin throw out of 15 competitors with a launch of 89'9 (27.37m).

The Jumbos also received second-place points from first-year Dayorsha Collins (Boston, MA). Her 5'4 (1.63m) effort in the high jump was near the 5'5 provisional qualifying height. Sophomore Kanku Kabongo (Abington, MA) scored seven points, taking fifth in the long jump (17'7/5.36m) and sixth in the triple jump (35'8 /10.88m).

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