Meet: America East Indoor Championships
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Location: Track and Tennis Center in Boston, Mass.
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Scoring: 1. UAlbany, 180; 2. UMass Lowell, 126.5; 3. Binghamton, 122; 4. New Hampshire, 108; 5. UMBC, 89; 6. Vermont, 59; 7. Maine, 50.5; 8. Hartford, 32; 9. NJIT, 11
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Results
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Short Story: Women's track & field wins its ninth-straight America East Indoor title, and 11th overall in 12 years, scoring 180 points, winning three events, and setting one championship meet record.
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Track Events
- Sydney Coddington placed fifth in the mile in 5:13.28.
- Olivia Nelson Chevry placed second in the 60m hurdles in a personal-best 8.92. Â Dee Denis placed fourth in 9.03.
- Denis placed sixth in the 400m in a personal-best 56.12.
- Emily Brown placed third in the 500m in a personal-best 1:13.98. Â Alicia Grady placed seventh in 1:19.31.
- Dominique Clarke led six Great Dane scorers in the 60m, including a sweep of the top five places, in 7.55. Brynley McDermott placed second in 7.60, Adaliz Hunt placed third in 7.63, matching the personal-best she set yesterday, Imani Gray placed fourth in 7.69, Rori Lowe placed fifth in 7.69, and Marika Garner placed eighth in 7.89.
- Erin Hayes placed fourth in the 800m in a personal-best 2:14.00.
- Sam Rutt placed second in the 1,000m in 2:54.46.
- Clarke placed second in the 200m in a personal-best 24.15. Lowe placed third in 24.50, Gray placed fifth in a personal-best 24.64, and McDermott placed seventh in a personal-best 25.00.
- The women's 4x800m relay team of Kaitlyn Butterfield (2:21.17), Hayes (2:21.86), Rutt (2:13.45), and Coddington (2:22.04) placed fourth in 9:18.50.
- The women's 4x400m relay team of Denis (56.91), McDermott (58.03), Lowe (55.22), and Brown (56.12) placed third in 3:46.26.
Field Events
Meet Notes
- Sydney Coddington won the women's Elite-18 Award, recognizing the individual holding the highest GPA in the championship meet.
- The women's coaches were honored as Women's Coaching Staff of the Year.
- The top three finishers in the 60m, were freshmen.
- Gray and Lowe were separated by two one-thousandths of a second in the 60m.
- The women were one of three instances in which one team scored six places in a single event over the weekend, with the UMass Lowell men sweeping the top six in the 5,000m and placing six in the 3,000m.
- Clarke breaks her own freshman class record in the 200m of 24.40 set earlier this season.
- The men placed second behind UMass Lowell, winning seven events with one championship meet record.Â
Next: Qualifiers continue championship season at ECAC Indoor Championships next weekend.
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