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February 27-28, 2004
Platinum performances at All New Englands
The banks of the Charles conjure up a pleasant walking or jogging location, but the image that track teams have is speed on another type of bank on the Chuck - specifically Boston University's banked track.
Competing at Boston University in the All-Division New England Track & Field Championships, TechTrack women had their most impressive record setting weekend in years. The 5 points for 25th place don't indicate the quality of performances, split between field and track. On Friday, Nalini Gupta upped the MIT record in the long jump to 17’3.25, and picking up a point with her eighth place finish. At that point, the junior held both horizontal jump school bests, but that honor lasted less than 24 hours as Chinwe Nyenke stretched her best in the triple jump out to 36’7.75 and top spot on the record board; that effort garnered her first NCAA provisional standard mark. Moving to the horizontal Cat Tweedie upped her PR and provisional NCAA mark in the pole vault to 11’ 9.75" with her fourth place finish.
Relay times provided the two additional board updates. Friday's Distance Medley Relay finished ahead of the one year old mark by 13 seconds. As was the case in 2003, Julia Espel (1200) led off and and Martha Buckley (1600) anchored, while juniors Chi-Chi Obi (400) and Andrea Staid (800) filled the middle legs, turning in a time of 12:21.99.
Buckley was a freshman the last time the 4x800 record was broken, and as a senior this year she helped bring that time down by another 10 seconds. All classes were represented on the record quartet, as the senior captain teamed with rookie Staid, junior Alisa Lehman, and sophomore Liz Walker to clock 9:46.88.
The squad will be smaller next weekend as the team heads to Bowdoin for the ECAC Division III Championships.
