GORHAM, ME – Saint Joseph's College placed sixth with six team points in the 2014 Maine State Women's Indoor Track and Field Championship at University of Southern Maine on Friday evening.
Junior Amber Dostie (Standish, Maine) highlighted the meet for the Monks when she broke the team's 1-mile run record – a mark she set at Bowdoin College on December 8th, 2012 – with a 5:23.01 effort, a time which was good for eighth in the distance race.
Freshman Marisa Lundy (Merrimac, Mass.) set a new SJC record in the high jump with a 1.27m effort and finished 12th overall while the 4x200-meter relay quartet of Hailey Frisbee (Kittery Point, Maine), Lundy, Gabby Lodge (Westbrook, Maine) and Schelling posted a team-record 2:02.26 time and finished fifth.
Freshman Kristina Schelling (Pelham, N.H.) nearly broke the Monks' 400-meter dash record with a 1:08.31 effort and placed 11th in the event overall and junior Heather Eaton (Lincolnville, Maine) raced to a sixth-place finish with an 11:08.49 performance in the 3000-meter run.
Saint Joseph's will compete in the NCAA DIII New England Championship next Friday and Saturday at Williams College.
Saint Joseph's College is Maine's only Catholic liberal arts college, providing a supportive, personalized and career-focused education for more than 100 years. From its 430-acre campus on the shores of Sebago Lake, the College offers more than 40 undergraduate programs to a population of approximately 1,000 students. Saint Joseph's College Online provides certificates, undergraduate and advanced degrees for working adults through an online learning program. For more, visit www.sjcme.edu.
