FIVE CONTINENTALS HONORED IN NYSCTC CHAMPIONSHIP

Hamilton College was well represented at the New YorkState Collegiate Track Conference (NYSCTC) Championships held at Union Collegethis past weekend as five athletes were named to the All-NYSCTC Track and Fieldteam, four school-records were broken, two state champions were crowned and onestudent-athlete was named the outstanding field performer of the meet.

Senior Bob Fish, who won the Shot Put with a throw of 14.92 meters, washonored with the outstanding performer award as well as being named to theAll-NYSCTC team. Senior Erin Ersenkal and junior Joe Button, whofinished second (2:36.58) and third (2:37.11) respectively in the 1000 meterrun, were also named All-NYSCTC. For the women, junior Tara Woolford,who was crowned State champion for her school-record 5000 meter time of18:30.67, and freshman Kristin Daly, who finished third in the 500 meterwith a school-record time of 1:22.50, were both named All-NYSCTC. Dalyteamed with Katie McAuliffe, Leslie Vars and Emily Hill tofinished fourth in the 3200 meter relay (10:12.21), also a school-record),while McAuliffe, Vars, Hill and Janet Davis set aschool-mark with a time of 13:28.31 in the women's distance medley relay. Thefinal school-record that was set was by Waltnel Sosa, who tied theprevious mark with a distance of 6.65 meters in the long jump.