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February 21, 2004
Top 10 List for Tech at NE Div. III
TechTrack hosted the New England Division III for the first time in the team's history, and turned in some admirable performance in front of the home crowd with a win and two varsity records that led the team to a tenth place finish. The competition was keen all around as the record book for the Shobrys and Aronson Track was literally rewritten with fifteen new facility standards being set.
The sole TechTrack victor was Cat Tweedie who again cleared 11'0" in the pole vault. Adding to her 10 points were a pair of thirds. Andrea Staid clocked her second record in the 600 with a 1:40.98 clocking to place third in the 600 out of section 2. Martha Buckley lowered her record in the 5000 by 10 seconds to place third behind all-Americans Carter Hammill - who lapped all but second place in running the second fastest D3 time in the country this year.
The distance medley opened the scoring in the lead-off event, the distance medley relay, carrying the stick in 13:25.96. Remaining points came in the horizontal jumps where Nalini Gupta and Chinwe Nyenke continued their consistant performing; the former placing seventh in the long jump in 16'8" and the latter taking fifth in the triple jump (35' 1/4").
While not advancing to the final, both Christine Fanchiang and Chinwe Nyenke dropped their 55 meter hurdle times into the top 5 Tech list.
Williams led from the first events, winding up with 154 points, holding off a surgint Tufts squad who wound up as runner-up with 133.5; Amherst was best of the rest with 60 points aided by 4 winners.An even more select group will cross the river to Boston U. next weekend for the all New Englands.
