The women’s track and field team placed sixth out of 25 teams at last weekend’s New England Division III Championships.
As the sixth seed, Bowdoin made no leaps to increase their final position, but did match its rank by providing several personal best performances.
Addison Carvajal ’16 took fourth in the pentathlon—a personal best—as did Katherine Harmon ’14 in the weight throw with a distance of 15.49 meters.
The Polar Bears did not have any individual winners, but Erin Silva ’15 recorded a team-best third place finish in the pole vault with her 3.06-meter jump.
The distance medley relay team of Alana Menendez ’15, Liz Znamierowski ’16, Maggie Bryan ’15, and Gina Stalica ’16 ran to a third-place finish with their time of 12:25.88.
Captain Michele Kaufman ’13 was the lone Polar Bear to score in two events, taking fifth in the long jump with a mark of 5.27 meters and sixth in the 55m hurdles by running it in 8.59 seconds.
The eighth place 4x200m relay team of Emily Clark ‘15, Znamierowski, Morgan Browning ’13, and Samantha Copland ’14 was only 0.5 seconds from the school record and featured “outstanding sub-27-second splits” from each runner, according to Coach Peter Slovenski.
Slovenski said he was happy with his team’s performance.
“All the teams, from fifth to 10th place, were within a few points from each other,” he said. To come out near the top of that cluster, he continued, “We needed people to come through, and a lot of the entries were able to get their season best.”
In fact, the Polar Bears were just one point from a fifth-place finish.
Slovenski was particularly proud that Bowdoin continued its success in the field this season, as the Polar Bears scored points in every field event.
Bowdoin outscored many NESCAC rivals including Colby, Bates, Amherst, Wesleyan and Connecticut College.
Because most athletes don’t fluctuate much in their week-to-week performances, upsets are not customary in track and field. The Polar Bears could not upset NESCAC powerhouses Tufts (first place), Williams (third) or Middlebury (fourth).
Today, qualifying Polar Bears travel to Boston University for the Open New England Championship.