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CONTACT: Doug Roorbach, Sports Information
Director 585.567.9556
Track and Field
Athletes Find Early Success at RIT Invitational
Rochester, NY-
Houghton College’s women indoor track and field athletes won three
events and finished second in three others at the R.I.T. Indoor Track
and Field Invitational.
The
women’s distance medley relay (DMR) team won its race with a time of
12:59.22, good enough to gain provisional qualification for the National
Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) 2008 national indoor
championship meet. The women’s DMR team consists of Heather Sayre
(Wellsboro, PA/ Wellsboro High School), Naomi Christensen (Houghton, NY/
Houghton Academy), Darby Emerson (Windsor, CO/ Windsor) and Kaitlin
Fadden (Hyde Park, NY/ FDR High School).
The
afternoon included two more first-place finishes for the women’s team,
with Christensen winning the 400m with a time of 27:07 and the women’s
4x400 relay team—Emerson, Kaitlin Smith (Woodhull, NY/ Jasper-Troupsburg),
Carolynn Tomlinson (Victor, NY /Home School) and Lydia Parsons
(Jamestown, NY/ Jamestown High School)—running a 4:17.72 to take first.
Smith
finished second in the 500m, as well, running a 1:26.34 for the
Highlanders. Emerson ran a 2:24.58 to finish second in the 800m. Sarah
Whipple (Canandaigua, NY Marcus-Whitman) finished second in the 55m
hurdles in 9.15.
The
Highlanders’ men’s DMR team ran a 10:34.28, good enough for second
place, and narrowly missed the qualifying time for the NAIA national
meet (by 0.78 seconds).
The
Houghton track and field team will compete next at the “Class of 32”
Invitational at Cornell University on January 26.
Houghton College
has deep
and
solid
roots in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, where our
teams use their commitment to excellence, both on the field-of-play
and
in the classroom, as a platform for their strong and
unique emphasis on Sports Ministry. Their goal is to make a difference
for the Kingdom
on campus, in Allegany County,
in the Northeast and
around
the world.
Houghton is one of only 13 institutions who have been hand-selected
by the NAIA to serve as "Champions of Character" Program Centers, opening the door
for Houghton to be a leader,
both in the Northeast and
nationally, in character education.
Through hands-on,
innovative community outreach initiatives, Houghton coaches and
student-athletes
are working together to change the culture of sport and
to change our culture through sport.
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