Indoor Track & Field Wins New England Championships

Saturday, February 5

Boston, Mass.

Quinnipiac University

New England Championships

Indoor Track & Field Wins New England Championships

2/5/2022 4:33:00 PM | Women's Indoor Track & Field

By: QU Athletic Communications

BOSTON, Mass. - For the first time in program history, the Quinnipiac indoor track & field team won the New England Championships on Saturday, Feb. 5 at the Reggie Lewis Track & Athletic Center in Boston.

"My first year as a head coach, we scored 6 points at this meet," head coach Carolyn Martin said. "I couldn't imagine that our team would become the TEAM we are today. We had a tremendous coaching staff - even before I took over - that has taught us to coach with heart. That is exactly how our team ran today, with heart! We were not the top seed going into this meet but our team worked so hard for each other and when they saw the possibility was there, they wanted it more for each other and for us. I am so proud of these ladies!"

Three Bobcats won individual events for the team, and eight Bobcats made it to the podium. Quinnipiac swept the relay races, winning the 4x400m, 4x800m and distance medley relay. Quinnipiac recorded 134 points as a team. UMass finsihed in second place with 127.5 points, and Holy Cross took third place with 112 points.

"In my five years of competing for QU, it's definitely been a journey coming so close to winning, especially at the MAAC Championships two years ago," said graduate student Britney Del Mundo. "This meet gave me the same chills and excitement I remember having at MAACs, but winning was just the cherry on top. I think it gave me and the team the confidence and reassurance needed that our talent is there and that our hard work pays off. Meets like this is what makes track and field fun, and I'm so lucky to be competing with such an amazing and competitive group of women with the support of our coaches. Despite the obstacles, even when the stats are against us, we persevered and won which is something truly special."

Track wins New England Championships

Bobcats on the Track | Results

Britney Del Mundo took fifth place in the 60m dash finals with a time of 7.96.
In the 60m hurdles finals, Symone Foster captured her sixth-straight win in the event, beating her career-best time by .01 second (8.59). Kalli'ana Botelho finished in third place with a time of 8.67, which is a new career best for the senior.
In the 200m dash finals, Hayden Robinson finished in fourth place with a time of 25.71. Foster took fifth place with a time of 25.77 in the same event, which is a new career-best time.
Senior Aisha Gay finished in first in the 400m final with a time of 56.61, which is a new career-best time and is ranked fifth in the program's top-ten list.
Alyssa Romagnoli placed second in the 500m final with a time of 1:16.28. Romagnoli's time is a season-best time and is ranked fifth in the program's top-ten list. Asia Mercier took fourth in the 500m right behind Romagnoli with a time of 1:18.27.
In the 800m final, Heather Feuchtenberger finished in third place with a season-best time of 2:16.04, beating her preliminary time by seven seconds.
Brooke Hagen finished fifth in the 1000m finals with a time of 3:00.60.
Four Bobcats finished in 12th place or better in the 1 mile event. Emily Young took second place with a time of 4:50.27, which was three seconds off from breaking the school record. Clare Veverka tallied a time of 5:09.12 in sixth place. Amanda Carlson took ninth place with a time of 5:11.81. Shannon Goria recorded a 12th place finish with a time of 5:24.82.
Liv DiStefano led the Bobcats in the 3000m race with a first-place finish, tallying a time of 9:57.26. Mia Pestle took fourth place (10:10.23), Lydia Keys finished in 14th (10:33.81) and Marisa Keiser placed 15th (10:35.93). Katie Bradley tallied a 20th place finish with a 10:44.28, which is a new personal best. Grace Michaud took 25th place, tallying a season-best time of 10:52.86.
Quinnipiac swept the relays, winning the 4x400m, 4x800m and the distance medley relay. The Bobcats took first place in the distance medley relay with a time of 12:03.03. Clare Veverka, Asia Mercier, Emily Young and Liv DiStefano made up the distance medley relay team. Botelho, Romagnoli, Del Mundo and Gay finished first in the 4x400m (3:51.10). Mercier, Feuchtenberger, Veverka and Young tallied a first-place finish in the 4x800m (9:17.84).

Quinnipiac Field Results

In the high jump, Kalli'ana Botelho finished in third place with a 1.60m jump.
Del Mundo took fifth in the triple jump with an 11.50m leap.
In the long jump, Camille Sweet took 13th place with a 5.09m mark. Del Mundo finished in 15th with a 4.96m mark, and Zekiah Lewis notched a 4.94m mark, taking 17th.
Mikah Maples tallied a second place finish in the shot put with a 13.56m toss, which is a career best. Maples also finished in 15th place in the weight throw (13.45m).

Up Next
Quinnipiac will be back in action at two different meets next weekend. The Bobcats will compete at BU on Feb. 11 and at Yale on Feb. 12.