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

COLLEGE WOMEN'S OUTDOOR TRACK & FIELD RESULTS
NESCAC Championships
At Somerville, MA
Saturday, April 24, 2010

Meet Results

Senior Julia Feltus broke her own school record in the hammer throw

SOMERVILLE -- The throwers on the Tufts University women's track & field team enjoyed a tremendous day at the 2010 New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) Championships hosted by the Jumbos at Dussault Track on Saturday. Their performances helped Coach Kristen Morwick's team place second at the meet.

Tufts scored 144.50 points in 21 events to place as the team runner-up. They edged third-place Middlebury College (140.50) by four points. Williams College won the conference championship with 188 points.

First year Kelly Allen (Norton, MA) won two of the four throwing events with school-record distances. Her 143'5" (43.71) in the discus throw broke her own record set earlier this season (141'9"/43.20m) and improves her NCAA provisional qualifying mark. In the javelin throw, she had a 120'6" (36.74m) toss to win and break the Tufts record set by teammate Sarah Nolet (Los Altos, CA) of 120'1" (36.6m) from last season. Allen was also second in the shot put at 40'7 1/2" (12.38m) on Saturday. Senior Julia Feltus (Reading, MA) set a third Tufts record in the throwing events for the day with a 150'7" (45.90m) hammer throw for second place, breaking her own record (148'6"/45.27m) from earlier this year.

Sophomore Heather Theiss (North Woodmere, NY) was far ahead of the field to win the pole vault for the second straight year. Her winning effort of 10'8 3/4" (3.27m) was six inches better than anyone else.

Junior Amy Wilfert (Westborough, MA) completed an impressive double in the 5,000 meters and 3,000-meter steeple chase. She was barely a second behind the winner in the 5K with her time of 18:01 flat. Her 11:12 flat for third place in the steeplechase is one second inside the NCAA provisional mark.

The Jumbos also received eight-point second-place finishes in two jumping events with NCAA provisional qualifying lengths. Sophomore Dayorsha Collins (Boston, MA) lifted herself 5'5" (1.65m) in the high jump, and classmate Nakeisha Jones (Boston, MA) had a season-best 39'1 1/4" (11.92m) in the triple.

Tufts hosts the New England Division III Championships at Dussault Track next weekend (Apr. 30-May 1).

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