When and Where: February 8, 2025- Boston College Showdown at the Heights (The TRACK at New Balance, Boston)
Results: No Team Scoring
Graduate student
Laila Bunnitt (Lewiston, Maine) continued her strong indoor season with a win in the weight throw on Saturday at the Boston College Showdown at the Heights. It was her fourth consecutive weight throw win.
SATURDAY HIGHLIGHTS
- Bunnitt's winning throw was 15.76m or four inches short of her all-time program mark of 15.91m set in her win last week at Plymouth State.
- Senior Tori Allen (Litchfield, N.H.) was fifth in the high jump at 1.58m, just off her best of 1.60m.
- In track events, junior Anne Wiersma (Veldhoven, Netherlands) set a new personal mark of 2:24.43 in the 800m, finishing 17th.
- Sophomore Deirdre Bailat (No. Billerica, Mass.) established a new PR in the 3000m at 10:54.38, tops among the SNHU runners in the race.
- SNHU finished seventh and ninth in the 4x400. The seventh place team (4:07.64) consisted of freshman Paige McInerney (Acton, Mass.), freshman Hope Hanafin (Burlington, Mass.), Allen, and freshman Hannah Sippel (Chester, N.H.).
- McInerney also tackled the women's mile, running a PR of 5:21.88 to finish 17th. Junior Corrina Obernesser (Westminster, Colo.) was 20th in 5:25.06.
NOTES
- Bunnitt has eight podium finishes this indoor season including four weight throw wins and one in the shot put.
WHAT'S NEXT
- The final meets before the Northeast-10 Indoor Track & Field Championships will take place next Saturday in Cambridge, Mass. (Gordon Kelly Invitational) and Boston (David Hemery Valentine Invitational).
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