Seahawks place ninth at Coast Guard Invitational
NEW LONDON, Conn. - The Salve Regina University women's track & field team placed ninth at the 2011 Coast Guard Academy Spring Invitational Saturday afternoon.
Freshman Tara Ruddy (Sparta, N.J.) won both the 100m and 200m dash races, and placed second in the long jump. Her time of 13.16 in the 100m dash is also an NCAA Division III New England Championship qualifying time. Ruddy finished the 200m race with a time of 27.44 and posted a lead of 4.92m (16-01.75 feet) in the long jump.
The 4x100m relay team of junior Kelsey Jacobsen (Albany, N.Y.), sophomore Kristen Peterson (Holden, Mass.), and freshmen Lexi Bracco (Hauppauge, N.Y.) and Janei White (Bridgeport, Conn.) placed second with a time of 52.80. Individually, Jacobsen placed sixth in the 100m dash (13.53), Bracco took seventh in the pole vault (2.45m, 8-00.50 feet), and Peterson claimed eighth in the 100m hurdles (17.51).
Freshman Kayley Ryan (Portland, Conn.) and sophomore Danielle Schioppo (North Haven, Conn.) finished fifth and seventh, respectively, in the 3000m steeplechase. Ryan broke the finish line in 13:13.40 while Schioppo posted a time of 13:59.13.
"We are a very young team loaded primarily with freshmen and sophomores," said head coach Matt Hird. "Getting use to the collegiate competitive environment and the weather can be trying. After having our first meet last week in frigid temperatures, we competed much better this week. We had many more smiling faces, and we're really hoping to shine next week at UMass Dartmouth."
Saturday's meet at UMD begins at 10 a.m.