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

COLLEGE WOMEN'S OUTDOOR TRACK & FIELD RESULTS
All-New England Championships
Friday-Saturday, May 9-10, 2008
At Durham, NH

Meet Results

Two-time All-New England 1,500 champion Cat Beck

DURHAM, N.H. -- Senior Cat Beck (Brookline, NH), nearing the end of a fabulous running career at Tufts, isn't quite finished yet, as she won the All-New England title in the 1,500 meters on Saturday at the Open New England Championships hosted by the University of New Hampshire. Beck's time of 4:30.91 is the fastest in the country for NCAA Division 3 and is an automatic qualifying time for the national championships. Beck's performance helped the Tufts women's outdoor track & field team score 24 points at the meet, finishing tied for ninth with Amherst and Williams in the field of Div. 1, 2 and 3 teams.

The All-New England outdoor championship was the second of Beck's career, having also won the 1,500 in 2006. On Saturday, she defeated Boston College second-place finisher Nichole Lister by a second to win the title. The Jumbos scored 13 points in the event and improved upon three NCAA qualifying marks. Senior Katy O'Brien (North Easton, MA) was sixth in the race with a 4:35.18 time, faster than her previous NCAA provisional mark. First-year Stephanie McNamara (North Attleborough, MA) ran 10th in 4:36.77, also an NCAA improvement for her.

Sophomore Logan Crane (Portland, ME) scored a fifth-place in the 100 meter dash with a finals time of 12.55 seconds. She was the only Division 3 runner to qualify for the finals in the event. Tufts also got two points each from first-year's Kanku Kabongo (Abington, MA) and Sarah Nolet (Los Altos, CA). Kabongo triple jumped 35'0 1/4" (10.67m) and Nolet scored 3,872 points in the heptathlon, both seventh-place performances among the best in the region. The 4x100 meter relay just missed the NCAA provisional standard with a 48.76 finish for sixth place.

The Jumbos have the ECAC Championships next week at Springfield College (May 15-16) before the NCAA meet in two weeks hosted by Wisconsin-Oshkosh.

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