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

COLLEGE WOMEN'S OUTDOOR TRACK & FIELD RESULTS
Coastal Carolina University Shamrock Invitational
At Conway, SC
Friday-Saturday, March 19-20, 2010

Meet Results

Senior Andrea Ferri qualified for NCAA's in the first outdoor meet

CONWAY, S.C. -- On the Tufts University women's track & field team's trip to South Carolina to start the 2010 outdoor season, senior co-captain Andrea Ferri (Dracut, MA) provisionally qualified for the NCAA Championships in the heptathlon and sophomore Heather Theiss (North Woodmere, NY) set a new outdoor pole vault school record at the Coastal Carolina Shamrock Invitational.

Ferri scored 4,219 points in the seven-event heptathlon, surpassing the national provisional mark of 4,100. She finished sixth out of 23 competitors at the meet. Her time of 26.65 seconds scored 741 points in the 200-meter run. Also topping 700 points (702) in the 800 meters, she posted a 2:29.28 time.

Theiss had the best Tufts finish at the meet with her third in the pole vault. She cleared the bar at 11'5 3/4" (3.5m), going beyond her previous team record of 10'11 3/4" by six inches (3.35m). She is two inches off the NCAA provisional standard of 11'7 3/4" (3.55m).

Among several other Jumbos who made the trip, sophomore Kayley Pettoruto (Andover, MA) was 20th in the javelin throw with 105'3" (32.09m) distance. Junior Andrea Caruth (Vauxhall, NJ) placed 21st in the 400 hurdles with a 1:06.40 time.

The meet did not include team scoring.

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