When and Where: February 7, 2025- Boston College Showdown at the Heights (The TRACK at New Balance, Boston)
Results: No Team Scoring
Runners from the SNHU Women's Track & Field team competed Friday on the first day of the Boston College Showdown at the Heights.
HIGHLIGHTS
- Junior Hope Sinclair (Hampton, N.H.) and freshman Hannah Sippel (Chester, N.H.) finished in a virtual dead heat in the 60m prelims with each running at 8.06 seconds. Sinclair was awarded 11th place by three one-thousands of a second.
- Sippel turned the tables on Sinclair as SNHU's top runner in the 200m, finishing with a new PR of 26.35 (23rd place). Sinclair ran a 27.23 for the distance.
- Sophomore Jordan Wheaton (Hooksett, N.H.) advanced to the finals of the 60 hurdles with a career- best 9.59 seconds for an eighth-place finish in the prelims - and then ran 9.56, finishing eighth in the finals.
- Senior Tori Allen (Litchfield, N.H.) finished 10th in the 60H prelim at 9.97 and ran a season-best 28.18 in the 200m
- Freshman Hope Hanafin (Burlington, Mass.) finished 29th in the 400m (1:04.53) and freshman Kay Wheelock (Milford, Mass.) turned in a 1:06.05, topping her previous best.
- Freshman Paige Zimmerman (Bedford, N.H.) ran a PR at 200m (29.08).
NOTES
- SNHU did not compete in the field events which were contested Friday, including the shot put. Graduate student Laila Bunnitt (Lewiston, Maine) is listed as an entrant in Saturday's weight throw. Bunnitt has twice broken the program record in the event this season.
WHAT'S NEXT
- The Penmen are competing at the same venue which will host the Northeast-10 Indoor Track & Field Championships in two weeks. The Boston College competition concludes on Saturday.
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