The Middlebury women's track and field team put its best foot forward on Friday and Saturday, wrapping up several impressive performances at the All-Atlantic Region Track & Field Conference (AARTFC) Championships at The Armory in New York and the Tufts Final Qualifier in Massachusetts.
 
AARTFC HIGHLIGHTS

• Olive Lawrence opened Friday's action by erasing her own program record in the 60-meter prelims, breaking the line in 7.70 seconds. She earned fifth place in the final with a time of 7.77 seconds.
• MK Cestaro earned fourth in the 3,000 with a personal-best effort of 10:07.79.
• Lily Haskins-Vaughan cleared the bar at 1.67m in the high jump, establishing a career mark and placing fourth in the event.
• The 4x200 relay quartet of Jazmyn Hurley, Melissa White, Katie Bruno and Lawrence claimed runner-up honors, stopping the clock in 1:44.19.

TUFTS FINAL QUALIFIER HIGHLIGHTS

• Lilly Wurtz dwarfed her own school record in the weight throw, logging a final heave of 16.81 meters to finish second in the event. She also claimed the runner-up spot in the shot put with a second toss of 12.65m.
• Annelise Jensen, Lily Bulczynski, Naomi Atwood and Claire Palmer combined to finish third in the distance medley relay (DMR), posting a time of 11:46.09.

NOTES

• In the weight throw, Wurtz tacked an additional 1.34 meters onto the program record she established at the Tufts Cupid Challenge.
• Lawrence's prelim clocking in the 60 lowered her school mark by two-hundredths of a second.

Selections for the NCAA Division III Indoor Championships will be announced on NCAA.com on Sunday, March 8 in the evening. This year's national invite will take place on March 13-14 at the Birmingham CrossPlex in Birmingham, Alabama.