Wheaton corrals ninth straight women's track conference title, Lyons capture 23 all-conference citations at NEWMAC Championship

April 29, 2006

CAMBRIDGE, MA- The Wheaton College women's outdoor track and field team notched its ninth consecutive conference meet title with a 56-point victory at the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Championship Saturday at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The Lyon men improved upon last year's standing and recorded their highest point total in five seasons.

In winning their eighth straight NEWMAC title, Wheaton's women collected 211.5 points to pace the eight-team field, outdistancing Springfield College's 155.5 points and host MIT's 141. The Blue and White men recorded a fourth-place finish among six competing squads and notched 123 points, their most since collecting 124 in 2001. MIT won with 214.5 points.

Nine of the Lyon women recorded all-conference placement, requiring a top-two finish, and six hailed from the freshman class. Junior Jennifer Harlow (East Bridgewater, MA/East Bridgewater) earned five nods, including two as the top finisher in the 100-meter hurdles and high jump competitions. Harlow earned second-place showings in the long and triple jumps and as a member of the 4x100-meter relay foursome.

Freshmen Chizoba Ezeigwe (Brockton, MA/Thayer Academy), Christine Moreau (Lincoln, RI/Lincoln) and Samira Sanders (Brooklyn, NY/Boys and Girls) joined Harlow on the 4x100M relay squad, while Moreau anchored the victorious 4x400M relay quartet. First-year runners Lily Calderwood (Harvard, MA/Bromfield School), Natana Jules (Brooklyn, NY/Boys and Girls) and Celeste Karpow (Wilton, CT/Wilton) each ran legs during the 4x400M relay.

Moreau rounded out her four all-conference citations by winning the 400M hurdles and finishing as the runner up to Harlow in the 100M hurdles. Ezeigwe won both the 100- and 200-meter dash events, recording an NCAA Division III Championship provisional time of 12.30 in the 100M. Jules and Karpow went 1-2 in the 400M dash, finishing 0.15 seconds apart, while Calderwood won the 800-meter run event. Sophomore Megan Brousseau (Attleboro, MA/Attleboro) finished second in the 1,500M run, just 1.54 seconds ahead of senior Kendra Leith (Holden, MA/Wachusett Regional), who placed second in the 5,000-meter run.

Wheaton's men won a pair of relay competitions, as senior Ajay Sisodia (Andover, MA/Andover) and freshmen Jonathan Cunha (Lexington, MA/Lexington) and Michael Wright (Baldwin, NY/Uniondale) played a hand in each the 4x100- and 4x400-meter relay teams' victories. Freshman Victor Martinez (Exeter, NH/Phillips Exeter Academy) ran a leg for the 4x100M quartet, which came within 0.78 seconds of an NCAA provisional time and 1.39 ticks of a five-year-old school record, while first-year athlete Brian Dundon (Mansfield, MA/Mansfield) joined the 4x400M quartet, which won by 5.55 seconds.

Cunha and Wright each picked up a pair of individual victories, as Cunha topped the 110- and 400-meter hurdles fields and Wright won both the 100- and 200-meter dash competitions. Cunha's time of 14.77 in the 110M hurdles provisionally qualified him for the NCAA meet and was just 0.01 seconds off of the school record he set two weeks ago. Sisodia placed second in the 400-meter dash, while sophomore Pat Benson (Foxboro, MA/Bishop Feehan) was the runner up in the 5,000-meter run event.

Both Lyon teams return to action next Saturday at the University of Delaware Invitational.

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