The Oberlin College women’s indoor track and field team opened February by capturing a fourth place tie at the 19th North Coast Athletic Conference Relays last Saturday.
The Yeowomen’s first place finish in the triple jump relay led them to 50 points, tying Ohio Wesleyan University’s total. The women of Denison University, which hosted the event this year, claimed their sixth straight NCAC Relays championship, garnering 96.5 points on the strength of five first place finishes.
Allegheny College wrapped up the men’s side of the competition with 87 points. The Oberlin men’s team did not place.
Juniors Shannon Houlihan and Faye Doherty and sophomore Teresa Collins comprised the first-place triple jump team. Houlihan led all jumpers with 34’06.00” and Collins was sixth, giving Oberlin a total of 66’00.75,” a new record for the NCAC Indoor Relays competition. Only the top two jumps from each team counted in the team total, but Doherty finished right behind Collins in seventh place with a 30’11.00” jump.
The Yeowomen also had strong showings in the 5000 m relay, the 800 m relay and the 55 m hurtles, finishing second in each of those events.
Senior Laura Feeney had the second best time in the 5000 m at 18:23.44, while senior Kyle McKenzie finished fifth overall with a time of 19:17.47.
The 800m team of senior Courtney Stackhouse, sophomore Leslie Bosworth, Houlihan and Collins clocked in at 1:52.11, just under three seconds behind first-place Denison.
Houlihan and Bosworth finished fourth and fifth overall in the 55 m hurdles to round out Oberlin’s top team placements with a combined time of 18.70 s in the event.
Both the men’s and women’s indoor track teams travel to Cleveland tonight for a 6 p.m. meet at Case Western Reserve University.