Top Five Flashback: Women's Track and Field #4 (April 11, 2015)
Top Five Flashback
Women's Track and Field #4 - Irving sets school record in 5000 meter race (April 11, 2015)
NEWPORT, R.I. - Sophomore Amy Irving (Bohemia, N.Y.) dominated the field in the 5000m at the Smith College Pioneer Invitational winning in a school record time of 18:36.89 on Saturday. Irving also qualifies for the New England Division III Championships to be held at MIT on Friday and Saturday, May 1-2. Irving unleashed a devastating kick with 1000m to go to which her Mt. Holyoke adversary could not respond.
Coach Matt Hird was very pleased with the team's performance saying, "Finally getting some decent weather makes a big difference as everyone was fired up and ready to go. This was a non-scoring meet but we were solidly in the top four in terms of performances among the 15 teams who competed. We were also trying to get some of our team qualified for the Heptathlon which is a series of seven events contested over two days. In track and field we have a lot of events in which our athletes will compete and it will be really interesting as we try to figure out how best to assemble our talent for the conference meet coming in two weeks. Next week at Wesleyan we hope to be rounding into form."