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

COLLEGE WOMEN'S OUTDOOR TRACK & FIELD RESULTS
Solomon Husky Invitational
Saturday, April 12, 2008
At Dedham, MA

Meet Results

DEDHAM -- Senior Catherine Beck (Brookline, MA) of the Tufts women's outdoor track & field team burned through the 800 meters at Northeastern University's Solomon Husky Invitational on Saturday, running a 2:11.52 time that narrowly missed the NCAA automatic qualifying mark in the third week of the season. The finish is a new Tufts outdoor 800 meters record, erasing the nine-year old time of 2:12.66 put in the books by Caitlin Murphy in 1999.

Beck won the event at Northeastern with her national provisional qualifying mark, which was just .02 of a second off the automatic standard of 2:11.50. That led the Jumbos in the non-scoring meet. Beck is also qualified nationally in the 1,500 meters.

Tufts also received an excellent performance from sophomore Logan Crane (Porland, ME). She won the 200 meter dash by finishing in 25.92 seconds and also was the best in the field for the long jump, reaching 17 feet flat (5.18m).

Three Jumbos were second-best at the meet. Senior co-captain Kaleigh Fitzpatrick (Lynnfield, MA) ran 58.97 seconds in the 400 meters. Sophomore Stephanie McNamara (North Attleborough, MA) crossed the finish line in 18:04.82 for the 5K. First-year multi-athlete Sarah Nolet (Los Altos, CA) completed the 400 hurdles in 1:11.33 for runner-up honors.

The Jumbo relays swept across the board in small fields. The 4x100 topped a three-team race in 49.77 seconds and the 4x400 was the fastest of six teams in 4:08 flat. The 4x8 group was the lone entrant and had a 10:09 31 time.

Tufts will stay local again next week when they compete in the MIT Invitational.

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