When and Where: February 17, 2023- Northeast 10 Indoor Track & Field Championship
(Track at New Balance, Boston, Mass.)
Team Scoring: 1
st of 10 (169 points)
(Boston, Mass.) - For the first time, the SNHU Indoor Track & Field team has won the Northeast-10 Indoor Track & Field Championship. Graduate student
Ashley Corcoran (East Longmeadow, Mass.) was named Most Outstanding Track Performer and Most Valuable Athlete.
TOP PERFORMANCES - FRIDAY
- Corcoran, who won the 5,000m on Thursday, won both the 3,000m and mile races on Friday. In the 3,000m, her time was 10:40.80. She took the mile in 5:03.77.
- Junior Kelsey Seamans (Methuen, Mass.), named the winner of the prestigious Elite 24 Award for the best grade point average among all competitors, was third in the 3,000m at 10:45.04. Freshman Corrina Obernesser (Westminster, Colo.) was fifth at 10:49.28.
- Four Penmen, including Corcoran, scored in the mile run with junior Kaitlyn O'Rourke (Braintree, Mass.) fourth in 5:12.92. Obernesser was sixth in 5:37.66, and junior Riley McDermott (Kennebunkport, Maine) came in seventh at 5:53.32.
- Junior Ava Gravell (Windham, N.H.) set two new program records on Friday. She ran a 57.08 in the 400m and finished second. Her 5.40m in the long jump was a program record and good for a fifth-place finish. for the second consecutive day with a 57.08 in the 400m. She also finished fifth in the 60m dash in 8.02, and sixth in the 200m dash in 25.61, a new PR. Gravell turned in a fifth-place finish in the long jump (5.40m).
- Two Penmen finished in the top eight of the 800m run. Junior Hannah Bradbury (Seekonk, Mass.) would finish up sixth, and O'Rourke was eighth.
- Junior Emma Hallet (Billerica, Mass.) ran a new PR in the 60H at 9.52, finishing fifth.
- The Penmen came in second in the 4x800 relay with O'Rourke, Bradbury, freshman Anne Wiersma (Velhoven, The Netherlands), and Corcoran running 9:46.58.
- SNHU turned in a fifth-place finish in the 4x400 relay with freshman Maggie McInerney (Acton, Mass.), junior Theresa Irving (Penacook, N.H.), Gravell, and freshman Jada Edgren (Belmont, N.H.) running the legs.
- Senior Madison McMahon (East Longmeadow, Mass.) was fourth in the high jump at 1.56, and McInerney in sixth place at 1.51m.
- Graduate student Bennie Alula (Hartford, Conn.) set a new PR while finishing second in the shot put at 12.02m. Freshman Brooke Bibbo (Burlington, Mass.) turned in a new PR finishing fifth in the event at 11.48m. Graduate student Tatyanna Beckford (Orange, N.J.) was sixth at 11.05m.
NOTES
- SNHU scored 169 points to finish ahead of second-place Southern Connecticut State University (153) and Adelphi University (96). Franklin Pierce University edged out American International University and the University of New Haven for fourth place.
- SNHU finished second at the Indoor Championships last winter before winning the Outdoor Track & Field Championships to cap the 2021-22 season.
WHAT'S NEXT
- SNHU will compete at the Last Chance Indoor Qualifier at Boston University on Sunday, February 26.
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