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Women's Track Takes Second at Heps
May 10, 2015 | Women's Track and Field
PHILADELPHIA (5/10/15) - Sophomore Megan Curham won her second event, the 5k and sophomore Lizzie Bird won the steeplechase as the Princeton women's track & field team finished second at the 2015 Ivy League Heptagonal Outdoor Championship.
Harvard won Heps with 157 points, while Princeton scored 118, 19 points in front of third-place Columbia.
Bird started Day 2 off hot winning the steeplechase at 10:06.48, more than two seconds ahead of the second-place competitor from Brown. Junior Emily de La Bruyere clocked 10:17.74 for fifth place as the pair claimed 12 points in the day's first event.
Princeton's 4x100 relay of senior Jasmine Blocker, senior Joanna Anyanwu, junior Sara Ronde and freshman Christina Walter earned the team a point with a 47.03 to take sixth place.
Blocker had a big day, as she ran the sixth-fastest time in Heps history in the 400. Her 53.60 gave her second place in the event. Blocker's time is a Princeton program record, and an obvious PR.
Harvard took over the lead after the 4x100 and would hold it all afternoon, as Princeton steadily trailed in second place.
After a second-place finish in the pole vault yesterday, sophomore Allison Harris finished fourth in the 100-meter hurdles at 14.21. This is the first time she has scored in the hurdles, while she has scored in every indoor and outdoor Heps pole vault.
Princeton went 1-2 in the 800 as junior Cecilia Barowski and senior Kim Mackay earned 18 points. They were the only two to finish in under 2:07 as Barowski just edged Makay at the finish line 2:06.88 to 2:06.89. Barowski was also the 800 champion indoors, while Mackay was in the indoor 500 champion. Mackay's time is a new PR.
Curham earned her second individual title. After winning the 10k last night she won the 5k this afternoon. Like her other Heps races she wasout quick and had a 20-meter lead by the end of the first lap. With three laps remaining, Curham had built up a 70-meter gap, and it was now teammate Kathryn Fluehr in second place. As Curham breezed across the line at 16:40.16, Fluehr dropped back on the bell lap and finished fifth at 16:52.94.
Junior Taylor Morgan took third place in the heptathlon with 5,181 points. It was a tight race with Morgan getting nudged from second to third after the final event, the 800. She was fifth one year ago and is the reigning indoor pentathlon champion.
Senior Brielle Rowe added four points to the total in the discus, after also scoring in yesterday's hammer throw. She launched to 47.24 (155) on her final throw of the afternoon though she had secured top four on her fifth throw of 45.05.
The 4x800 relay of freshman Katie Hanss, sophomore Zoe Sims, freshman Ashley Forte and Bird ran 8:39.79 for second place. Barowski helped her team move from third place into second on that final leg.
Blocker, Mackay, Anyanwu, and Barowski made up the 4x400 that placed third in the final event of the day, the 4x400. The relay posted a school record time of 3:39.04, erasing the previous time of 3:39.96 set at ECACs in 2012.