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Women’s Track & Field To Compete in Division III Regional Meet

Katie Bruno and Olive Lawrence are two Panthers set to compete this weekend.
The Middlebury women's track and field team travels to the Boston area for the Division III New England Championships. Tufts and the TRACK at New Balance will host the three-day meet. The combined events will be contested in Medford, beginning Friday at 3:00 p.m. and concluding on Saturday with an 11:00 a.m. start. Individual and relay events are scheduled for a 9:00 a.m. start on Sunday at the TRACK.

ABOUT MIDDLEBURY
  • The Panthers have competed at every Division III New England Championships since the 2000 season. 
  • Middlebury's best finish at the regional meet came in 2018 when the squad placed third out of 30 teams.
  • Last season, the Panthers finished fifth out of 28 scoring programs at the meet. 
PANTHERS TO WATCH
  • Olive Lawrence has posted a pair of top-20 efforts in the sprint events and will also battle for a title in the long jump. She has the region's second-best 60-meter time, crossing the line with a program-record clocking of 7.72 seconds during the Tufts Cupid Challenge. Lawrence established a qualifying time of 26.08 seconds in the 200 to sit 20th, while she is 14th in the long jump with a distance of 5.23 meters. 
  • Katie Bruno will also race for a crown in the 60, earning the 10th-quickest time of 7.94 seconds.
  • The 60 hurdles will feature Emma Mills racing for a title. She sits second regionally with a time of 8.98 seconds set at the Tufts Cupid Challenge. Mills is also set to run in the 200, posting the 28th-best clocking of 26.25.
  • The Panthers are well represented in the middle-distance events. Alison Rayment posted the region's 24th-best clocking of 59.69 seconds at Boston University's David Hemery Valentine Invitational in the 400, while Lily Bulczynski clocked a 1:38.75 in the 600 during the same meet.
  • Naomi Atwood qualified for the 800 for the second straight year. Her time of 2:17.20 ranks seventh in the region. Annelise Jensen earned a spot in the 1,000 with a clocking of 3:02.35 during the Middlebury Winter Classic.
  • In the distance events, Claire Palmer posted the fifth-fastest race in the 3,000, crossing the line in 9:46.61 at Tufts in early February. MK Cestaro ranks 17th in the mile (5:05.03), while the duo of Grace Kaelber (18:18.29) and Josie Dolan (18:39.58) will run in the 5,000.
  • Middlebury is featured in several relay competitions in Boston. The Panthers come in with the ninth-fastest time in the Distance Medley Relay (DMR) of 13:28.50 set at the Tufts Cupid Challenge. 
  • The 4x400 relay squad touts the third-best clocking entering the weekend, a clocking of 3:53.07 posted two weeks ago at Tufts. 
  • Middlebury's 4x200 relay group of Bruno, Melissa White, Ellie McDonald and Lawrence owns an entry time of 1:45.02. The 4x800 relay grouping of Atwood, Shea Fajen, Jensen and Caroline VanSchaick will also compete with a seed clocking of 9:51.87.
  • The high jump features a pair of Panther rookie competitors. Lily Haskins-Vaughan is in a fourth-place tie regionally, clearing the bar at 1.63m at the Tufts Cupid Challenge. Chase Hoey soared 1.58m at the season-opening Middlebury Snowflake Invitational to rank 13th.
  • In the triple jump, Gabriella Gerig and Rayment look to outleap the field. Gerig is seventh with a distance of 11.04m, while Rayment hit the sand at 10.62m to enter the meet in 20th.
  • The shot put features a pair of Panther competitors with top-five distances. Julia Tulimieri ranks fourth in the region with a toss of 12.64m, while Lilly Wurtz is one centimeter behind in fifth. 
  • The Middlebury duo will also battle for a crown in the weight throw.  Wurtz ranks seventh with a heave of 15.47m set at Tufts, while Tulimieri sits 11th at 14.67m.
ABOUT THE COMPETITION
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is ranked fourth nationally in the latest United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) poll. Williams (#5), Tufts (#9) and Connecticut College (#20) are the other top-25 teams set to attend. Multiple regionally-ranked squads will also take part in the event. 
  • Returning from a year ago will be 10 individual champions, including Bella King-Harvey (400) of Williams, who has claimed the event in each of the last two years. Amherst's Piper Lentz (600), Alexa Estes (800) and Grace McDonough (1,000) from Connecticut College each come back to defend their titles in the middle-distance events. 
  • Coast Guard's Claire Semerod (5,000) and Allie Wildsmith (high jump) return to the fold this winter, while MIT tallied a pair of victories from Gillian Roeder (mile) and Kate Sanderson (3,000).
  • Rounding out the returning winners are Ellie Fitzgerald (pole vault) of Williams and Kennedy Kirkland (long jump) from Bowdoin
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