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

COLLEGE WOMEN'S OUTDOOR TRACK & FIELD RESULTS
New England Div. 3 Championships
At Somerville, MA
Thursday-Saturday, April 29-May 1, 2010

Meet Results

New England Div. 3 heptathlon champ Andrea Ferri

SOMERVILLE -- Senior co-captain Andrea Ferri (Dracut, MA), sophomore Dayorsha Collins (Boston, MA), and first year Kelly Allen (Norton, MA) all won individual titles for the Tufts University women's outdoor track & field team at the New England Division 3 Championships held at Tufts' Dussault Track. The meet ran Thursday through Saturday.

Tufts scored 63 points at the meet. However, final team scores were unavailable as of Saturday night.

Ferri captured the heptathlon title by scoring 4,353 points, which improves her NCAA provisional qualifying score by 134. Third in the event as a sophomore, and the runner-up last season, Ferri won this year with the help of three 700+ scores. She ran a 15.49-second 100 hurdles (778), timed 26.05 seconds in the 200 meters (793), and had a 2:24.30 800-meter run (766).

Sophomore Dayorsha Collins (Boston, MA) won the high jump crown, clearing 5'6" (1.68m). That is within an inch of the 20-year old Tufts record and also improves her NCAA provisional qualifier from 5'5" (1.65m). Kelly Allen (Norton, MA) continued her excellent first season by winning the regional discus throw championship, twisting off a 140'9" (42.90m) best effort. She was also fourth in the shot put at 39'8 3/4" (12.11m).

Junior Amy Wilfert (Westborough, MA) ran an NCAA provisional time of 4:38.13 in the 1,500 meters for fifth place. Sophomore Heather Theiss (North Woodmere, NY) cleared 11'7 3/4" (3.55m) in the pole vault to tie for second. Classmate Nakeisha Jones (Boston, MA) was second in the triple jump with 39'0 1/2" (11.90m) distance.

Senior Julia Feltus (Reading, MA) added seven points to the team total with a fourth in the hammer throw (147'1"/44.83m) and a seventh in the shot put with a 38'2 3/4" (11.65m) heave. Ferri and Collins were also a part of the seventh-place 4x100-meter relay.

Tufts is at the Open New England Championships hosted by Northeastern University next weekend (May 7-8).

#