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

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COLLEGE WOMEN'S INDOOR TRACK & FIELD RESULTS
Tufts Invitational I
Saturday, January 17, 2009
At Medford, MA

Meet Results

MEDFORD -- The Tufts University women's indoor track & field team hosted the first of its four meets at the Gantcher Center on Saturday and debuted at home with some outstanding performances. Coach Kristen Morwick's team placed second out of nine teams overall, scoring 170 points.

First-year Dayorsha Collins (Boston, MA) won the high jump by clearing 5'5 �" (1.66m), a height that provisionally qualifies her for the NCAA championships. Sophomore Stephanie McNamara (North Attleborough, MA) won the 3,000 meters in a 10:06.70 time that was 25 seconds ahead of the rest of the field and was the second-fastest time in team history. Capping a trio of highlights was a school-record pole vault of 10'8 �" turned in by first-year Heather Theiss (Hewlett, NY) to win that event. The former record of 10'6" was set by Myriam Claudio in 2003.

Tufts won seven events overall, including all three relays. In the 4x200 race, senior Jennifer Johnson (Rancho Palos Verdes, CA), junior Andrea Ferri (Dracut, MA), senior tri-captain Jackie Ferry (Studio City, CA) and first-year Shantal Richards (Dorchester, MA) put down a winning time of 1:51.87. In the 4x4, Johnson again led off and Ferry was the anchor of a foursome joined by first-years Amanda Parker (North Attleborough, MA) and Nicole Priscal (Miami, FL) that won with a 4:15.09 time.

The 4x8 was a two-team race, won by Tufts in 10:06.13. First-year Caroline Melhado (Boulder, CO) won out of a short field in the 5K, running 20:22.14.

Runner-up performances came from Ferry in the 400 (1:02.71), sophomore Amy Wilfert (Westborough, MA) in the 1,000 (3:05.32), junior Logan Crane (Portland, ME) in the long jump (16'2 �", 4.93m), sophomore Kanku Kabongo (Abington, MA) in the triple jump (33'0 �", 10.06m) and sophomore Kelly Smith (Zionsville, PA) in the weight throw (41'10 �", 12.76m).

UMass Lowell won the meet with a 211 score. The Jumbos compete at BU next Friday.

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