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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