Written by Christine Kloiber
Facing
temperatures in the 40s with a little bit of wind and a lot of
rain, the Regis Outdoor Track Team wasted no time running between
the rain drops to post some big times this weekend at the MIT
Spring Invitational. Sprinters and middle-distance runners both set
their best performances of the year with still a week to go.
Individual highlights for the Pride included: freshman Ana Baker
(Hartford, CT), who set collegiate bests in the 100 (14.25s) and
200 (29.22s); her 200 performance ranked her 8th in the meet, and
also gave her the fastest time over that distance by a Regis
athlete this year. Nipping at her heels in the 200 with Domingas
Gomes (Brockton, MA), dropping her 200 time down to 29.79s, for the
2nd fastest performance of the season. Another noted individual
performance was the red-shirting Kate Haslam (Atkinson, NH), who
set a huge personal best in the 800 meter run, helped in part by
her teammate Beth Frye (Adams, MA) who led the heat out in a gutsy
front-running tactic. Haslam broke the 2:40 barrier for the first
time in her career, and will look to dip even deeper into the
mid-2.30s as the final races of the year approach.
Meanwhile, the New England bound 4x100 meter team (Gomes and
Baker, joined by Anyah Hernandez and Samantha LaFrance) dropped
their time by almost a second. With kinder weather, and
additional fine-tuning to their exchanges, the ladies will be
dropping their overall time very sharply in the next two weeks.
The team's final regular season meet of the year will be held at
Brown University on Sunday the 25th.