QU Outdoor Track and Field Competes at New England Championships, ECACs This Weekend

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QU Outdoor Track and Field Competes at New England Championships, ECACs This Weekend

5/10/2018 10:43:00 AM | Women's Outdoor Track & Field

By: QU Athletic Communications

Live Scoring: New England Championships
Live Scoring; ECAC Championships

HAMDEN, Conn. — The Quinnipiac women's track and field team will head to two different venues this weekend, with most traveling to Dartmouth on Friday and Saturday for the New England Championships, and several heading to Princeton on Sunday for the ECAC Championships.

Senior Jessica Lee will try to repeat as the 100-meter hurdles winner at the ECAC Championships after winning the event last year in a time of 13.76 seconds. She has surpassed that mark this year with a 13.27, set at the Auburn Tiger Track Classic. She is ranked No. 40 nationally and No. 26 in the East Region heading into the weekend. The top 48 in each region qualify for the NCAA Regionals, which Lee accomplished a year ago, and her 13.27 has her set up in great shape to make a return visit to this year's regionals in Tampa later this month.

Joining Lee at the ECAC Championships will be senior Christina Barbaro and junior Marlo Wehrer, who will both be competing in the 400-meter hurdles, and senior Mackenzie Merkel, who qualified in the discus with a school-record 43.62 meters at the MAAC Championships. Junior Carly Timpson has earned an ECAC-qualifying 1.73 meters in the high jump, which ranks her No. 40 in the East Region. She will compete in the New Englands and might head to Princeton afterward to compete again as she tries to solidify her NCAA qualifying mark.

The New England Championships will feature three Bobcats in the sprint events: Abby Frank in the 100 and 200 meters, Melissa Solomon in the 200 and 400, and Meaghan Scullin in the 200. In the intermediate events, Meghan Curtin and Ahmetra Davies will be in the 800, while Kaitlin Bakas (5000), Victoria Maceira (10,000) and Samantha Leal (10,000) will compete in the distance events. Jillian DiGiacinto will represent Quinnipiac in the 400-meter hurdles, while four Bobcats will compete in the 3000-meter steeplechase (Maria Ricalton, Morgan Voight, Shaelyn Pacheco and Amanda Carlson).

In the field events, Leah Pfrommer and Scullin will both compete in the long jump, while Timpson will add the hammer throw to her high jump entry. Emily Dryzgula, who came in second in the javelin at the MAAC Championships, will compete in that event again for the Bobcats.

This weekend marks the last full weekend of competition for the track and field team after a 2017-18 campaign that saw the Bobcats finish second at the MAAC Indoor Championships in the winter, and which saw Lee (100, 100 hurdles), Wehrer (400 hurdles), Merkel (discus), Timpson (high jump) and Pfrommer (long jump) set new outdoor records during the spring.