The Middlebury Campus

Issue date: 2/23/06 Section: Sports

Media Credit: Albert Bitici Coach Peter Kim times his athletes this week in practice. The team is training for the Open New England meet next weekend. Middlebury performed well last week and qualified several athletes for the championship meet.

On Feb. 11, the Middlebury indoor track team traveled to Maine for a meet against Bowdoin and the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. The team experienced much success during the weekend, which provided momentum heading into the D-III New England meet. Jen Katz '09 won both the 55m and 200m races with times of 7.44 and 26.93 seconds, respectively. Katz credited the team for her individual success, saying that "supportive teammates are always pushing me during both practices and meets. We get cheers going, which I think is not only helpful to the runners but also makes the races fun to watch." Another newcomer to the team, Kelley Coughlan, won the triple jump with a hop, skip and jump combination that exceeded 32 feet. The Middlebury women's indoor track squad also dominated the pole vault competition, in which Meira Lifson '07, Sarah Wilson '08 and Emer Feighery '09 each cleared 10'1" for a one, two, three finish. On the men's side, co-captain Kevin Bright '06 won both the 200m and 400m races. In a longer distance race of 3000m, Jimmy Butcher '08 finished victorious with a time of 8:49.71.

On Feb. 18, the indoor track teams competed in the Division Three New England meet. The men's side visited M.I.T. while the women returned to Bowdoin for their meet. The men finished 16th out of 24 teams and the women 12th out of 22 teams. For the women's team, Jen Katz again won the 55m and 200m races on her way to breaking her own Middlebury College records and posting new times of 7.43 seconds and 26.38 seconds. Her teammate and another rookie, Jennifer Brenes, also won a pair of All-New England honors by placing fourth in the 55m hurdles and eighth in the long jump.

The team had other members earning All-New England status as well, including Emer Feighery '09 in the pole vault, Simone Weisman '09 in the 600m, Emily Coles '09 in the 55m dash, and Sarah Wilson '08 in the pole vault.

For the men, individual results featured Kevin Bright's fourth place finish in the 400m with a time of 50.69 seconds and Patrick Swan's '08 seventh place finish in the 600m with a time of 1:24.04. Both of these times earned All-New England honors. Greater success came through relays. The group of Kevin Bright, Will McDonough '07, Jimmy Butcher and Patrick Swan finished second overall.

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