Middlebury College

Tracey Thompson Turner, a member of the Class of 1979, was one of the pioneers of the women’s track and field program at Middlebury. 
 
When Thompson arrived at Middlebury in 1975, she trained with the men’s track and field team until becoming a member of the first women’s track and field roster in 1977–78 along with Karin Von Berg Noyes ’81, a 2015 Middlebury Hall of Fame inductee. A sprinter on the track, Thompson still holds Middlebury’s 100-meter dash record, which she set in 1979 at 11.9 seconds when the track surface was cinders. That time was also a NESCAC record for 37 years until it was broken in 2016. 
 
Thompson was named by the coaches as the Most Valuable Athlete at the Collegiate Track and Field Championships at the University of Vermont’s Archie Post Field. She finished third in the 100m (12.5) and fourth in the 200m (26.2) at the Open New England Championships, where four of the top-six athletes in each race were from Division I schools.    
 
Thompson has remained active in track and field following graduation and started the girls’ track team at the Putney School in Vermont.