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

JUMBO FOURSOME BLAZES TO DMR WIN AT OPEN NEW ENGLAND MEET

COLLEGE WOMEN'S INDOOR TRACK & FIELD RESULTS
Open New England Championships
Friday-Saturday, February 23-24, 2007
At Boston, MA

Championship Results

Katy O'Brien ran the third leg of the distance medley relay that set a New England record on Friday

BOSTON -- The Tufts University foursome of senior tri-captain Sarah Crispin (Auburn, ME), junior Kaleigh Fitzpatrick (Lynnfield, MA), junior Katy O'Brien (North Easton, MA) and junior Cat Beck (Brookline, NH) set a New England record for all divisions in the distance medley relay on Friday at the Open New England Championships hosted by Boston University.

The Tufts foursome finished in a time of 11 minutes, 39.08 seconds to win the race by almost 13 seconds over Williams College. The time obliterates the previous Tufts record of 11:59 set in 2005, and stands to be one of the fastest times in the country this year. Because it was run on the banked track at BU, it will be adjusted. That will likely place it behind Wisconsin Platteville's time of 11:40.45 in the event as the only two automatic NCAA qualifying times this season.

On Saturday, Beck provided the team's highlight by taking second in the 3,000 meters with a school-record time 9:31.90 time. That replaces the almost 20-year old mark of 9:46 ran by Nancy Benson in 1988 from the Tufts records list. Beck was second behind Providence's Aine Hoban (9:24.49) at the meet, with both times faster than the previous New England record of 9:32.52.

Also on Saturday, the 4x4 relay ran an NCAA provisional qualifying time of 3:57.30 on the banked track. Crispin, freshman Andrea Ferri (Dracut, MA), sophomore Jackie Ferry (Studio City, CA) and Fitzpatrick was the line-up, and their time was 10th at the meet.

Junior Anna Shih (Pittsford, NY) also submitted a good effort. In the 1,000 meters, she was seventh in the preliminaries with a 3:01.30, then took 10th in the final at 3:04.47.

Head coach Kristen Morwick's team placed 15th at the meet with their 18 points scored. They were fourth among Division III teams.

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