Women's Track

Quakers Compete in NCAC Championships

For Immediate Release:
May 1, 2008

DELAWARE, Ohio — Senior Sara Bohall qualified for the finals in two events on Thursday to lead the Earlham College women’s track team at the North Coast Athletic Conference Outdoor Track Championships at Ohio Wesleyan University.

Bohall (Westport, IN/Columbus East) posted the fastest times in the 100-meter hurdles and 400-meter hurdles. In the 100-meter hurdles she won her heat in 15.72 seconds. Bohall got close to the NCAC record in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 1:03.57. The conference mark is 1:03.10 set by Kelly McNamara of Ohio Wesleyan in 1991.

Like Bohall, first-year Alison McEmber (Newtown, CT/Newtown) advanced to the second day of competition. McEmber ran a 1:01.91 in the 400-meter dash, which was the fifth best time.

Junior L.J. James (Greencastle, IN/Greencastle) scored in a pair of field events. James had a throw of 35’5¼” to finish fifth in the shot put. James had a distance of 101’9” to place eighth in the discus.

In the pole vault, junior Allison Blaetz (Palantine, IL/William Fremd) cleared 8’11¾” to finish eighth.

The championships end on Friday with the field events getting underway at 10 a.m.

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