Women's 4x200 Squad Breaks School & Landmark Record at ECAC Championship
NEW YORK, N.Y. --- The Moravian College women’s track & field team are in a tie for fourth place after the opening day Friday with a total of 12 points, six points each for a pair of third place finishes at the 2015 ECAC Division III Indoor Championships being hosted by Rutgers-Newark at the New York City Armory.
NEW YORK, N.Y. --- The Moravian College women's track & field team are in a tie for fourth place after the opening day Friday with a total of 12 points, six points each for a pair of third place finishes at the 2015 ECAC Division III Indoor Championships being hosted by Rutgers-Newark at the New York City Armory.
The Greyhounds are tied with Wellesley (Mass.) College and are just five points behind first-place Bowdoin (Maine) College.
The 4x200-meter relay squad of seniors Brianna Wright, Morgan Redmond and Brielle Sutter and junior Corinne Glass placed third with a school and Landmark Conference record time of 1:43.81, taking over half a second off of the previous record since in 2010.
Senior Dana Fineman was third in the pole vault with a career-best mark of 3.71 meters (12-2). Feinman improved her career mark by one centimeter but it was enough to move her into a tie for ninth in the nation on the Track & Field Results Reporting System list. The top 17 women in each event at the end of the day on Saturday will compete at the 2015 NCAA Division III National Championships next weekend.
Redmond ran a career-best time of 9.29 seconds in the 60-meter hurdles, the six-best time in school history, and Redmond was ninth in the preliminaries by four-one thousandths of a second to move onto the finals on Saturday. Wright finished 13th in the preliminaries of the 60-meter dash in a time of 7.91 seconds, tying the fourth fastest time in school history.
In other first day action for Moravian, sophomore Kiara Bright was 19th in the triple jump with a mark of 10.64 meters(34-11) while freshman Ciara Stewart took 30th in the shot put with a toss of 11.12 meters (36-5.75).
The Greyhounds will be back in action for the second day of the ECAC Championships at the New York City Armory beginning at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, March 7.
