Skyhawks earn one individual and one relay All-New England honor

Lightbody earned her first All-New England honor with a new personal best height in pole vault.

ROXBURY, Massachusetts (January 31, 2020) – The Stonehill College women's track & field team saw one individual and one relay team earn All-New England honors on day one of the New England Championships at the Reggie Lewis Track Center.  

Highlights:

• In the first go at the 4000-distance medley relay this season, Jordan Callahan, Claire Hurtado, Claire Mason, and Jillian Howard took home an All-New England finish, placing eighth out of 15 teams, for All-New England honors. The quartet clocked in a time of 12:17.84, as the second Division II team and this time currently sits second on the Northeast-10 Conference performance list. Callahan led the relay team with an unofficial time of 3:45.6 1200-meter leg, as Hurtado followed with an unofficial time of 61.2-seconds in the 400-meter second leg. Mason ran the 800-meter third leg with an unofficial time of 2:23.3, as Howard was the anchor mile leg clocking in an unofficial time of 5:07.7.
• Freshman Haley Lightbody earned her first All-New England honor with an eighth-place finish in the pole vault. The freshman crushed her previous mark and cleared a new personal best mark of 11 feet, 7.75 inches as the first Division II competitor.
• Sophomore Siobhan O'Keefe ran a time of 17:58.97 in the 5000-meter run, as she crossed the finish line first in her heat. Overall 31 competitors, she was the second competitor from Division II and she finished 10^th. She is currently third on the NE10 performance list.
• Both senior Zoe Smith and sophomore Savanna Macaluso qualified for the 60-meter hurdles semifinal event tomorrow. Smith ran the preliminary round in a time of 8.95-seconds, good for ninth place, while Macaluso ran the event in 9.23-seconds, good for 16^th out of 30 competitors. Smith was the fastest Division II competitor.

Other Highlights:

• Junior Casey Gannon clocked in a time of 9.35-seconds in the 60-meter hurdles, finishing 21^st out of 31 competitors.
• Senior Ashley Colarusso cleared 10 feet, 8 inches in the pole vault to finish 19^th overall.
• Senior Jesica Litwa threw the weight throw a distance of 48 feet, 5.25 inches. She finished 21^st out of 24 competitors.

Up Next:

Stonehill will send another handful of student-athletes to day two of the New England Championships tomorrow, Saturday, February 1 with a start time of 10:00 a.m.

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