Track and Field Meet Preview: ECAC Outdoor Championships

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW?
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» IT'S CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON! Delaware will head to Williamsburg, Va. to compete in the ECAC Outdoor Championships, hosted by CAA foe William & Mary this weekend, May 14-15. Already familiar with the track this season, head coach Ryan Waite will take 19 Blue Hen athletes to Walter J. Zable Stadium at Cary Field slated to compete in 14 events. Navy will seek to defend their IC4A and ECAC titles from 2021.

» The Blue Hens will look to use the momentum from last weekend's impressive weekend at the Coloinal Athletic Association (CAA) Outdoor Championships. UD shined through and through the entire meet finishing in second place with 154 points and racked up 15 medals -- four gold, nine silver and two bronze medals. The meet was headlined by impressive performances by the meet's Most Outstanding Field Athlete Megan Albamonti along with Tina Capparell, Halima Scott and the 4x100 relay team.

» Defending her title, Albamonti entered the event with a mark of 50.64m and obliterated the mark with a personal-, meet- and new program record of 55.78m to capture gold for the Blue Hens, surpassing UNCW's Ann Raynor 2006 mark of 170-01. Currently, Albamonti's mark is ranked fifth among the NCAA leaders.

» Capparell became the Blue Hens' first champion in the event in program history after setting a new shiny PR and new school record of 10:22.95. Capparell eclipsed the previous time of 10:31.97 that she set earlier this season.

» Scott also put together an dominating championship run as she competed in the 200m, 400m and ran the first leg of the 4x400 relay for the Blue & Gold. Scott was crowned champion in the 400m with a time of 54.19. She earned the silver hardware in the 200m with a time of 24.41 and bronze with the 4x400m relay team (Alicia Lehman, Jessica Harding and Alyssa Armor) with a time of 3:49.30.

» Rounding out the Blue Hens gold medal trophy case was the 4x100 relay team consisting of Trinity Tapper, Kamylin Padgham, Shylehn Ebuenga-Smith and Aja Davis. The relay team won the race with a school record time of 45.68.

THE BLUEPRINT
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Saturday, May, 14-Sunday, May 15
at 45th ECAC Outdoor Championships, hosted by William & Mary (Williamsburg, Va., Walter J. Zable Stadium at Cary Field)

Blue Hens competing
Capparell, Bethany Clement, Sarah Daniels, Davis, Emily Eckard, Harding, Gabrielle Holliday, Lehman, Hannah Lindgren, Ruby Mullen, Chioma Njoku, Kosie Nkwonta, Marie-Frederique Poulin, Danielle Rochester, Carly Schmidt, Scott, Tapper, Julien Webster and Susanna Weir

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