Track & Field Sets A Trio Of New School Records To Close Out The Indoor Season At ECAC Championships
3/6/2022
BOSTON, Mass. – The University of Delaware track and field team closed out the indoor season with a strong showing at the three-day ECAC Championships (Mar. 4-6), hosted by Boston University inside BU’s Track and Tennis Center. Head coach Ryan Waite took 13 Blue Hen athletes with him up North where they competed in 10 events, rewriting the program’s history books 10 times.
Really, really great weekend! It is always special breaking one school record but getting three is extra special. Outside of the records, we competed really well, set new season-best records and had personal best performances. Overall, we entered the championship with positive attitudes and left the same way - that is great because we can use this performance as a springboard into the outdoor season. Really proud of the team this weekend.Head coach Ryan Waite
Day 1 - Friday Events (Mar. 4)
Alicia Lehman was the lone Blue Hen competing to kick off the championship weekend in the pentathlon. She finished with 3047 points (14th place), which sits sixth in program history. Lehman took silver in the long jump (5.67m) beating out the 2020 ECAC winner’s mark of 5.35m, placed eighth in the 800m (2:34.75), took 15th-place in the 60m hurdles (9.63) and rounded off with 16th-place finishes in the high jump (1.37m) and shot put (7.98m).
Day 1 of @ECACSports Indoor Championships is in the books!
— Delaware Track & Field/Cross Country (@DelawareTFXC) March 4, 2022
Alicia Lehman opened the championships with 3047 points in the Pentathlon, which now sits sixth in UD program history! #WeLoveToSeeIt pic.twitter.com/ZN4nYXPnpL
Day 2 - Saturday Events (Mar. 5)
The 60m dash opened Saturday’s slate of events, where Aja Davis and Trinity Tapper headlined for the Blue Hens. Both Davis and Tapper qualified for Sunday’s finals after putting together a great showing in the preliminaries and semifinals round. In the preliminaries, Davis ran a 7.66, good enough for seventh place, while Tapper followed with a time of 7.71 for the ninth-place finish. In the semifinals, Davis and Tapper finished the dash in 7.61 to capture fourth and fifth place, respectively; times that are tied for third in UD history books.
.@ECACSports Indoor Championships Update | 60 meter dash semifinals
— Delaware Track & Field/Cross Country (@DelawareTFXC) March 5, 2022
Aja Davis and Trinity Tapper will take their 7.61 time, which is tied for third in UD history, into tomorrow's finals
Let's GO #BlueHens pic.twitter.com/gu0DpAN5Qq
Roxanne Ramirez ran the mile in 4:55.21 (13th-place) to become the No. 6 performer in school history.
ECAC Championships Mile:
— Delaware Track & Field/Cross Country (@DelawareTFXC) March 5, 2022
Roxanne Ramirez runs 4:55.21 to become the No. 6 performer in school history! pic.twitter.com/UvtyyjUV2V
Up next was the 400m dash preliminaries with Halima Scott and Marie-Frederique Poulin leading the way for the Blue & Gold. Scott took her 55.49 (eighth place) qualifying time, which is fourth in UD history, into Sunday’s finals. Poulin followed with a time of 56.36 for a 12th-place finish.
.@ECACSports Indoor Championships Update | 400 meter dash preliminaries
— Delaware Track & Field/Cross Country (@DelawareTFXC) March 5, 2022
Halima Scott will take her 55.49 qualifying time, which is fourth in UD history, into tomorrow's finals
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Jessica Harding starred in the 800m run for the Blue Hens, running a time of 2:11.88, good enough to place 16th, while becoming the No. 5 performer in school history.
.@ECACSports Indoor Championships Update | 800 meter run@_jessicaharding runs 2:11.88 to become the No. 5 performer in school history!
— Delaware Track & Field/Cross Country (@DelawareTFXC) March 5, 2022
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In the only field event the Blue Hens were competing in, Kosie Nkwonta led the way in the weight throw by tossing 15.61m, which was good enough for 19th place.
Rounding out the second day of events was Susanna Weir in the 5000m run. Weir absolutely shined as she captured bronze, shattering the 2020 ECAC winner’s time of 16:48.69 with a new school record time of 16:31.85. The Staten Island, N.Y. native eclipsed teammate Tina Capparell’s time of 16:38.60, which was set this earlier season at BU’s Sharon Colyear-Danville Season Opener (Dec. 4) inside the same championship track.
??SCHOOL RECORD??@Susannaweir7? runs 16:31.85 in the 5K to break the UD record and finish ??at the ECAC Indoor Championships! pic.twitter.com/ejCXgpvKkp
— Delaware Track & Field/Cross Country (@DelawareTFXC) March 5, 2022
.@Susannaweir7 sporting her hardware after her performance on Saturday in the 5000 meter run #WeLoveToSeeIt ?? pic.twitter.com/P5uBriOPau
— Delaware Track & Field/Cross Country (@DelawareTFXC) March 6, 2022
Day 3 - Sunday Events (Mar. 6)
Myrissa McFolling-Young opened the final day in the shot put, where she tossed 13.06m (ninth place) which sits 10th in the program’s history books. Ruby Mullen followed in the triple jump with a season-best mark of 11.79, which was good enough to for 14th place.
In the 60 meter dash finals, Davis captured bronze with a new school record time of 7.57, surpassing a seven-year-old record set by Latazah Coleman ’15 (7.59). Tapper followed with a time of 7.88, good enough for eighth place.
.@ECACSports Indoor Championships Update | Triple Jump
— Delaware Track & Field/Cross Country (@DelawareTFXC) March 6, 2022
Ruby Mullen leaped a season-best mark of 11.79m, which was good enough for 14th place pic.twitter.com/cgaBlvktvi
??NEW SCHOOL RECORD??
— Delaware Track & Field/Cross Country (@DelawareTFXC) March 6, 2022
Aja Davis? runs 7.57 in the 60m dash to break the seven-year UD record and finish ??at the @ECACSports Indoor Championships! pic.twitter.com/eMmnsWo4Rf
Views of the 60m dash ?????? #WeLoveToSeeIt pic.twitter.com/QPEmP77RLe
— Delaware Track & Field/Cross Country (@DelawareTFXC) March 6, 2022
Scott competed in the 400 meter dash finals and finished with a time of 55.55 which placed her in seventh.
Capparell made her championship appearance in the 5000 meter run, where she posted a new school record time of 9:32.18, good enough to place seventh. The Hazelton, Pa. native broke an eight-year old record set by Lindsay Prettyman (9:32.76, 2014).
??NEW SCHOOL RECORD??@tina_capparell runs 9:32.18 in the 3000m run to break the eight-year-old UD record!!
— Delaware Track & Field/Cross Country (@DelawareTFXC) March 6, 2022
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