The Middlebury women's track and field team heads to the Bay State to compete in the Division III New England Championships. Springfield College is hosting the two-day event, which is set to kick off on Friday.

ABOUT MIDDLEBURY

• The Panthers have appeared in every installment of the Division III New England Championships since 2000.
• Middlebury has secured a top-10 finish in 18 consecutive editions of the invite, including a ninth-place showing last year.
• This season, 20 individual competitors and two relay groupings represent the Panthers in 12 events.
• At the league championships, the program secured three individual titles and logged 10 All-NESCAC performances.
• The team had nine different athletes secure 15 all-region accolades a campaign ago.

PANTHERS TO WATCH

• The Middlebury throwing contingent looks to build off a strong showing at the NESCAC Championships. Lilly Wurtz paces the Mideast in the discus with her conference-title toss of 45.55 meters and sits 0.39 meters out of the top spot in the shot put (12.74m). Also competing in multiple events is Julia Tulimieri, who is fifth among regional peers in the shot put at 12.49m and slots ninth with her toss of 47.44m in the hammer.
• A pair of Panther relay squads hit the track in Massachusetts. The 4x100 relay quartet of Katie Bruno, Jazmyn Hurley, Melissa White and Ella Pate set the second-quickest time in the region at 47.29 seconds during the league meet. Alison Rayment, Mary Elliot, Lily Bulczynski and Pate enter the weekend ranked second in the 4x400 relay with their clocking of 3:51.71.
• Lily Haskins-Vaughan cleared the second-highest mark in the high jump at 1.71m. Her performance comes in just seven-hundredths of a meter behind Coast Guard Academy's Allie Wildsmith for the top spot in the region.
• The Panthers will send three combined competitors in the 100 and 200. Lawrence slots third in the Mideast with her time of 12.02 seconds from the UMass Commonwealth Invitational in the meet's quickest event. White comes into the championships with the seventh-fastest clocking for the 200 (25.31), while Bruno is 16th with a clocking of 25.69 seconds.
• Claire Miller holds fifth after clearing 3.25m in the pole vault at the Amherst Spring Fling.
• Three competitors will represent the navy and white in hurdles action. Anna Mazur enters the weekend with the sixth-fastest time in the 400 (1:04.41), while Emma Mills (14.79) and Samantha Czaplicki (16.41) slot seventh and 34th in the 100.
• Maggie Kim (40.11m) and Lauren Sheffield (39.44m) slot sixth and eighth, respectively, for the shot put. Lawrence looks to best her 10th-ranked toss of 11.99m.
• In the triple jump, Lucy Pollitt, Gabriella Gerig and Czaplicki hit the sand. Pollitt leads the trio with the sixth-furthest leap in the region at 11.52m and Gerig recorded a jump of 11.13m to stand 13th. Czaplicki rounds out the grouping in 21st (10.74m).
• Closing out the Panther competitors is Cate Kreutzen, who slots 17th regionally with her time of 11:41.55 in the 3,000 steeplechase.

ABOUT THE COMPETITION

• Tufts earned the team title with 94 points last season. Connecticut College (60) and Coast Guard Academy (50.5) filled out the top-three spots. 
• Williams leads the most recent United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) national poll at #4. Tufts sits sixth, while #13 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), #20 Connecticut College and #22 Vassar round out the top 25.
• The field of competition returns 10 individual champions from last season.
• Connecticut College has three athletes looking to grab titles for the second straight campaign. Blessing Kieh (100), Alexa Estes (800) and Grace McDonough (1,500) all return to the field.
• UMass Boston's Aryianna Garceau and Rhode Island College's Haley Oliver seek their third individual crown in the 100 hurdles and 10,000, respectively.
• Other previous event winners on the track include Simone Beauchamp of Wellesley (3,000 steeplechase) and Coast Guard's Tara Jensen in the 400 hurdles.
• In the field competition, Sarai Sealey of Brandeis (triple jump) and Southern Maine's Riley Reitchel (javelin) seek to earn their second consecutive titles.

TOURNAMENT INFORMATION

• Host School: Springfield College
• Location: Springfield, Mass.
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