2008 Woodie Awards
Track teams end their season at ECACs
Patrick Bagley
Issue date: 3/9/07 Section: Sports
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Last weekend the men's and women's indoor track teams ended their regular varsity season at the Eastern College Athletic Conference championships, hosted by Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.
Fielding only three competitors, the men nonetheless managed to rank 26th out of 53 schools competing in the ECAC championships. The Mules were fifth within the ten New England Small College Athletic Conference schools that competed at the ECAC championship. The Mules scored 12 points. Tufts University, the top NESCAC finisher, placed tenth with 28 points. While Bates College finished only seven places ahead of Colby with a score of 15 points, the Mules topped Bowdoin College (five points) by 18 places.
Ian London '07 was Colby's top scorer at the meet. He scored six points by placing third in an incredibly close finish in the one mile. London's time of 4:15.89 was within half a second of first place. Considering that London's race took less than 256 seconds, the winner (Ross Hunkovic of Geneseo State University) was only about 0.2 percent faster than London. In an even smaller margin, Curtis Wheeler of the University of Southern Maine nudged second place from London while running in a different heat. The pundits of Colby track and field have suggested that if Wheeler and London ran head to head in the same heat, the outcome could have been different.
Bob Glotfelty '08 posted three points in the 1,000 meter race with a time of 2:34.92. En route to a sixth place finish, Glotfelty managed to fend off two NESCAC rivals from Amherst College, who finished seventh and eighth with respective times of 2:35.00 and 2:36.10. Captain Dan Vassallo '07 also captured three points with a sixth place finish in the grueling 5,000 meter race. Vassallo ran a time of 15:06.16, edging out the nearest NESCAC rival, Dave Sorenson of Tufts, by more than six seconds.
Like Vassallo, Allison Cogbill '07 was the sole Mule in the 5,000 meter. She ran a time of 18:57.16, earning 14th place. First-years Cassie Knight and Margo Derecktor continued their outstanding indoor season with an eighth and a tenth place finish in the 3,000 meter race, respectively. Devan FitzPatrick '09 and Brianna Tufts '07 ran in the 1,000 meter race with respective places of ninth and fourteenth. Tufts' time of 3:08.77 was a personal record, and according to Captain Kirsten Davis '07, "Brianna looked really strong the whole way."
Davis, who placed a respectable fifth in the pentathlon for four points, also commented on the women's impressive 4x200 meter relay. According to Davis the relay team was "seeded 21st and but managed to finish in seventh place. That is a huge improvement!"
Captain Anna Bruno '07, who also competed in the pole vault, had the lead leg of that relay, passing to baton to Erin Beasley '09 who was followed by Liz Russell '10 and Christi Lumbert '10. Bruno stated that their time of 1:49.97 was Colby's "fastest time in two years," before adding, "It was a very exciting race and a great way to end the season for the sprints group. It will be nice to focus towards the outdoor season, where I think we have a lot of potential to do well."
Fielding only three competitors, the men nonetheless managed to rank 26th out of 53 schools competing in the ECAC championships. The Mules were fifth within the ten New England Small College Athletic Conference schools that competed at the ECAC championship. The Mules scored 12 points. Tufts University, the top NESCAC finisher, placed tenth with 28 points. While Bates College finished only seven places ahead of Colby with a score of 15 points, the Mules topped Bowdoin College (five points) by 18 places.
Ian London '07 was Colby's top scorer at the meet. He scored six points by placing third in an incredibly close finish in the one mile. London's time of 4:15.89 was within half a second of first place. Considering that London's race took less than 256 seconds, the winner (Ross Hunkovic of Geneseo State University) was only about 0.2 percent faster than London. In an even smaller margin, Curtis Wheeler of the University of Southern Maine nudged second place from London while running in a different heat. The pundits of Colby track and field have suggested that if Wheeler and London ran head to head in the same heat, the outcome could have been different.
Bob Glotfelty '08 posted three points in the 1,000 meter race with a time of 2:34.92. En route to a sixth place finish, Glotfelty managed to fend off two NESCAC rivals from Amherst College, who finished seventh and eighth with respective times of 2:35.00 and 2:36.10. Captain Dan Vassallo '07 also captured three points with a sixth place finish in the grueling 5,000 meter race. Vassallo ran a time of 15:06.16, edging out the nearest NESCAC rival, Dave Sorenson of Tufts, by more than six seconds.
Like Vassallo, Allison Cogbill '07 was the sole Mule in the 5,000 meter. She ran a time of 18:57.16, earning 14th place. First-years Cassie Knight and Margo Derecktor continued their outstanding indoor season with an eighth and a tenth place finish in the 3,000 meter race, respectively. Devan FitzPatrick '09 and Brianna Tufts '07 ran in the 1,000 meter race with respective places of ninth and fourteenth. Tufts' time of 3:08.77 was a personal record, and according to Captain Kirsten Davis '07, "Brianna looked really strong the whole way."
Davis, who placed a respectable fifth in the pentathlon for four points, also commented on the women's impressive 4x200 meter relay. According to Davis the relay team was "seeded 21st and but managed to finish in seventh place. That is a huge improvement!"
Captain Anna Bruno '07, who also competed in the pole vault, had the lead leg of that relay, passing to baton to Erin Beasley '09 who was followed by Liz Russell '10 and Christi Lumbert '10. Bruno stated that their time of 1:49.97 was Colby's "fastest time in two years," before adding, "It was a very exciting race and a great way to end the season for the sprints group. It will be nice to focus towards the outdoor season, where I think we have a lot of potential to do well."
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