Senior Caroline McBride is the two-time defending 10,000-meter champion, but will look to claim All-Conference honors in the 5000-meter run on Saturday. |
Skyhawks picked third by league coaches
NE-10 Outdoor Championships Information Website
EASTON, Mass. (May 3, 2013) – The Stonehill College women's track and field program open their stretch run this weekend when it competes at the 2013 Northeast-10 Conference Outdoor Track & Field Championships, hosted by American International College, at The John G. Hoyt, '52 Track & Field Complex on Friday and Saturday.
Stonehill, which finished third at the NE-10 Indoor Championships, has been picked third for the Outdoor Championships by the NE-10's head coaches in its pre-championship poll. The Skyhawks collected 79 points, with defending NE-10 Outdoor and 2013 Indoor Champions UMass Lowell picked first with ten first place votes and 100 points. Host American International is predicted to finish second with 82 points and received the remaining first place vote. The University of New Haven and Southern Connecticut State (70 points each) tied for fourth in the poll.
The 2013 NE-10 Outdoor Championships get underway on Friday with the men's decathlon and women's heptathlon events starting at 10:30 a.m., and 11 a.m., respectively. Friday's field championship events start at 12:30 p.m., with the women's discus throw and long jump as well as the men's pole vault and javelin throw, while the track events start at 1:30 p.m., with the men's and women's 200-meter dash prelims. Men's and women's track championships to be held on Friday include the 1,500-meter run, 10,000-meter run and 4x800-meter relays.
Sophomore Maria Curit is the defending champion for the 400-meter dash and is also seeded fourth for the long jump this weekend. |
The Championships continue on Saturday with day two decathlon events at 10 a.m. Field Championships get back underway at 10:30 a.m., starting with the women's shot put and triple jump as well as the men's high jump and hammer throw. Track events are scheduled to start at 12:30 p.m., beginning with the 4x100-meter relays.
Athletes to watch for Stonehill include:
Sophomore Maria Curit (Biddeford, Maine/Biddeford) is the defending 400-meter dash champion and also earned All-Northeast-10 honors for the long jump. She enters this year's NE-10 Championships seeded fourth for both events this weekend with her 400-meter time of 57.15-seconds set during the indoor season and distance of 18-feet, 5-inches. Curit is also expected to compete with 4x400-meter relay team that finished third a year ago at the NE-10 Championships. Stonehill won the event as recently as 2010.
Senior Caroline McBride (North Reading, Mass./North Reading) is the two-time defending women's 10,000-meter champion at the NE-10 Outdoor Championships, with the Skyhawks winning the event each of the last three years overall. She will not defend her two titles on Friday afternoon, but is seeded fourth for Saturday's 5000-meter run with a time of 17:47.67 set at the New England Indoor Championships in February. McBride placed third in this event at the 2010 NE-10 Outdoor Championships as a freshman and earned All-Conference honors with a second place effort at the NE-10 Indoor Championships in February.
Senior Kristen Veit (Easthampton, Mass./Holyoke Catholic) is the two-time defending NE-10 Outdoor Champion and All-Conference performer for the 3000-meter steeplechase and is seeded third for the event this weekend with her time of 11:39.52 clocked at the Duke Invitational. She also placed third in this event as a freshman in 2010 before claiming the 2011 and 2012 championships.
Senior Kristen Veit has won two-straight 3000-meter steeplechase championships. (PHOTO BY Richard Orr) |
Stonehill will be looking to clinch its third-straight outdoor championship in the 4x800-meter relay, having finished in the top two the last four years overall. The Skyhawks are seeded second to UMass Lowell (9:16.13) with their time of 9:16.59. Potential entries for Stonehill, who hold the event record with its winning time of 9:24.99 last spring, for the event this weekend are junior Elizabeth LaRegina (New Fairfield, Conn./New Fairfield) and sophomores Sarah Wilson (West Suffield, Conn./Suffield) and Erin Reilly (Burlington, Mass./Burlington) who were part of last year's winning relay performance as well as sophomores Emily Anderson (Manchester, Conn./Manchester) and Brianna Venturo (Taunton, Mass./Coyle & Cassidy) and Veit.
Also on the women's side:
Wilson is seeded fifth (2:15.74) in the 800-meter run after placing third at the 2012 NE-10 Outdoor Championships. LaRegina is seeded seventh (2:18.68) after finishing fourth last year, while Reilly finished seventh last year and is seeded 11th this weekend (2:19.74).
Anderson is seeded third in the 1500-meter run (4:39.12) after finishing third in the event as a freshman in 2012.
Junior Chelsea Bishop (Suffield, Conn./Suffield) is seeded second (38:51.35) and looks to keep the 10,000-meter championship at Stonehill for a fourth-straight year. Classmate Emily Regan (Hanson, Mass./Whitman-Hanson) is seeded fourth for the event (39:29.12) this weekend.
Junior Meaghan Olin (Goshen, N.Y./Goshen) looks to post her first All-Conference performance in the pole vault after placing third at the 2012 NE-10 Outdoor Championships and is seeded third this weekend with a school-record height of 10-feet even at last weekend's Skyhawk Invitational.
Freshman Trisha Pierson (East Hanover, N.J./Hanover Park) is seeded fourth in the discus throw with a distance of 126-feet 4-inches at the UMass Minuteman Invitational this spring.
Stonehill will continue its championship season next weekend with it serves as host of the New England Championships at W.B. Mason Stadium on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, May 9-11.
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