Results

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – The Ithaca College women's track & field team won its sixth straight and 22nd overall New York State Collegiate Track Conference outdoor championship Saturday at St. John Fisher. Ithaca recorded 166 points to win the meet. Freshman Brandy Smith was named NYSCTC Women's Rookie of the Year, while head coach Jennifer Potter and her coaching staff received Coach Staff of the Year nods.
 
Ithaca hit 16 ECAC qualifiers and had 23 individual and two relay All-NYSCTC finishes during day two of competition.
 
Ithaca had a trio of ECAC qualifiers in the 3,000-meter steeplechase and two in three additional events. Graduate student Carly Graham placed third in the steeple in 11:22.30. Senior Allison Bartkowiak ran fifth in 11:40.26 and junior Carolyn Malone placed sixth in 11:54.13. Junior Leigh Martino placed third and freshman Julia Jones fourth in the 400 hurdles with times of 1:05.60 and 1:05.67. Juniors Alexa Rick and Emily Smith placed third and eighth, respectively, in the 5K. Rick clocked in at 17:55.68 and Smith at 18:20.30. Junior Harmony Graves was the runner-up in the 100 dash with a time of 12.28. Sophomore Sarah Werner placed fourth in 12.57 and sophomore Lizzi Dowling earned seventh with a 12.83 finish. Graves and Werner hit the ECAC qualifier.
 
Graves also clocked an ECAC-good finish of 25.55 in the 200 to earn silver. Sophomore Eliza Dewart claimed one point with a 26.83 eighth-place finish.
 
Rick raced to a sixth-place, ECAC-qualifying finish of 4:45.54 in the 1,500. Sophomore Anna Fay placed eighth in the event with a time of 4:50.64. She also tallied eighth in the 800 run with a time of 2:24.14.
 
The Bombers' 4x100 and 4x400 teams hit ECAC qualifiers to both place third. The 4x100 team finished in 49.58 and the 4x400 in 3:59.83.
 
Three additional ECAC qualifiers came in Saturday's field events. Junior Emilia Scheemaker placed second in the triple with a mark of 11.68 meters, Smith won the discus with a 41.33-meter heave and also recorded bronze in the shot put with a toss of 12.09 meters.
 
Dewart placed fifth in the 400 and sophomore Christine Kelly seventh with times of 1:00.06 and 1:00.74. Junior Christine Benway ran third in the 100 hurdles crossing the finish line in 16.29.
 
Senior Elaine Abdulky was fifth in the discus with a throw of 35.09 meters and junior Corrine Taylor recorded an 11.29-meter mark to place sixth in the shot.
 
The Bombers will return to action Saturday, May 10 at Oneonta's May Meet.