University of Richmond Athletics
Women's Track & Field Finishes Second At Atlantic 10 Championship
05/07/2006 | Women's Track & Field
May 7, 2006
Results
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Junior Beth Crocus was named the Most Outstanding Field Performer in leading the Richmond women's team to a runner-up finish at the 2006 Atlantic 10 Outdoor Championships held at Charlotte's Irwin Belk Track & Field Center.
Richmond finished second at the conference outdoor championship for the third time in five years competing in the Atlantic 10. League newcomer Charlotte won the women's championship with 210 points, followed by the Spiders with 112 points and Rhode Island with 97.25.
"This is a great finish for us, the girls did a quality job," Richmond women's coach Lori Taylor said. "We finished off the year about as best we could. This is pretty exciting."
Richmond men's team finished ninth with 35 points, but were just three points behind seventh-place Massachusetts (38) and 7.33 points behind sixth-place Fordham (45.33).
Crocus won the hammer and javelin on Saturday and finished eighth in the shot put on Sunday to score 23 points to lead the Spiders and earn the Atlantic 10 Championships Most Outstanding Women Field Performer.
Junior Lindsey Smith finished sixth in the shot put Sunday as she brought her meet point total to 20 after finishing second in the javelin, fourth in the hammer and seventh in the discus.
"The throwers and Nicole (Kurtain) in the steeplechase got us going yesterday and we carried that over today," Taylor said. "Each event today we got good points and we were able to hang in there. This was a total team effort, it was a really great effort."
Freshman Jasmine Major gave the Spiders their third individual title of the 2006 Outdoor Championship, winning the 100 hurdles in a time of 14.57. She also finished fifth in the 100 dash in 12.36 seconds. Major added an eighth-place finish in the 200 in 25.87 seconds, scoring 17 points for the meet.
As in the 2006 Atlantic 10 Indoor Championship, Richmond freshman Jessica Young broke two meet records but finished second both times behind Charlotte senior Shareese Woods. Young took second in the 200 dash in 23.98 seconds and finished second in the 400 in 54.21 seconds, scoring 18 points.
Senior Danielle Eaton took second in the 800 in 2:12.56, while Richmond's 4x100 and 4x400 relay teams set school records and finished second. The 4x100 team of Eaton, Young, freshman Stefanie Lapp and Major was the runner-up in a new school record of 47.88 seconds. The 4x400 relay team of Eaton, sophomore Tara Markey, Young and senior Amy Thesing also finished second in a school record 3:49.97.
Thesing finished fourth in the 400 hurdles in 1:04.28. Senior Diana Morse placed sixth in the 1,500 in 4:42.58 and took second in the 800 in 2:22.43. Smith finished sixth in the shot put with a throw of 37-9 1/4 and Crocus took eighth with a toss of 35-11 1/4.
Sophomore Tara Markey finished ninth in the 400 in 58.34 seconds and freshman Paloma Krakower was 13th in 59.59 seconds. Krakower also finished 16th in the 200 in 27.02 seconds.
Senior Nicole Kurtain, who finished second in the 3,000 steeplechase on Saturday, took 12th in the 1,500 in 4:54.31 on Sunday. Sophomore Kylee Schuler finished ninth in the 5,000 in 17:40.92 and freshman Karen Guthrie took 12th in the 5,000 in 18:16.69. Sophomore Kate Merill was 16th in the 5,000 in 18:37.06 and freshman Emily Nagle took 21st in the 1,500 in 5:14.42.
On the men's side, senior John Ciccarelli, who was second in the 3,000 steeplechase on Saturday, came back to finish seventh in the 5,000 in 14:50.58 on Sunday.
Freshman Pierre Turner, who was competing in his first collegiate track & field meet, finished eighth in the shot put with a throw of 42-7 1/2. He had finished third in the discus on Saturday.
"Pierre did a nice job in the shot put, even though his specialty is the discus," Steve Taylor said.
Fellow freshman Chris Kondorosssy, competing in just his second collegiate meet, took 12th in the shot put with a heave of 38-5 1/2. He took 10th in the discus on Saturday.
In the 1,500 Richmond sophomore Jonathan Molz took 13th in the 1,500 in 4:01.37 and freshman Garrett Graham finished 14th in 4:04.00. Freshman Sean Welsh was 22nd in the 1,500 in 4:14.27.
"The 1,500 was the deepest that event has been in years," Steve Taylor said. "The 12th-place time this year would have won last year."
Freshman Jeff Strojny took 12th in the 800 in 1:56.31 and junior Rusty Burrell finished 15th in the 400 hurdles in 57.89 seconds. Freshman Greg Hoffman took 17th in the 400 dash in 53.38 seconds and sophomore Mike Stubbs finished 19th in the 5,000 in 16:00.97. Sophomore Brendan Regan was 20th in the 800 in 1:59.05 and Richmond 4x400 relay team took ninth in 3:31.76.
"Our men competed well, there were just very competitive races with very solid competition. We didn't get some of the points where we wanted to so we didn't finish where we would have liked."
The Spiders took home three A-10 individual titles on the women's side with Crocus winning the javelin and hammer, and Major winning the 100 hurdles. Richmond's list of 2006 all-conference women's athletes includes Crocus (javelin, hammer), Smith (javelin), Kurtain (steeple), Young (200, 400), Eaton (800), Major (100 hurdles). Also the members of the 4x100 (Eaton, Young, Lapp, Major) and 4x400 (Eaton, Markey, Young, Thesing) earned all-conference honors. On the men's side, Ciccarelli (steeple) and Willis (10,000) both earned all-conference.
