Blue Jay Women Finish in Seventh in Centennial Track Championships

Andrea King won the shot put

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Angela Kaon finished in seventh place in the 3000

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Feb. 28, 2005

CARLISLE, PA - The Johns Hopkins women's track and field team finished in seventh place with 40.5 team points in the Centennial Conference's Indoor Track and Field Championships as hosted by Dickinson. The host Red Devils just edged Muhlenberg in the overall competition, 129-126.5.

Senior Andrea King was the top JHU finisher, earning the top spot in the shot put with a throw of 36’7.5", and ten team points for the Blue Jays.

In the 55-meter dash, the Blue Jays placed two runners in the top eight to earn six points. Freshman Jessica Reeves (Miami, FL/Gulliver Prep) ran a time of 7.64, as she finished in fourth place. Sophomore Joseph Giselle (Trinidad West Indies/St. Joseph’s Convent Port-of-Spain) finished in eighth place with a time of 8.13. In the pole vault, Reeves finished in eighth place and earned one team point for the Blue Jays. Giselle finished third in the 400 meter dash in a time of 1:03.95, earning six team points for JHU.

Freshman Javi Hartenstine (Saratoga, PA) earned the first four points for the Blue Jays as she turned in a fifth place finish in the mile run, in a time of 5:28.86. In the 3000 meter run, freshman Angela Kaon (Bridgewater, NJ/Bridgewater-Rairtan) earned two team points for the Blue Jays with a seventh place finish, in a time of 10:58.16.

Freshman Julie Blumreiter (Muskego, WI/Martin Luther) posted a leap of 5’00.25" in the high jump to finish in fifth place. Reeves earned points in her third event as she leapt 4’10.25", good for a tie for sixth place and 2.5 team points. In her final event of the day, Reeves finished in eighth place in the pole vault with a jump of 8’6.25". Her leap was not only her best, and the best by any Blue Jay this season, but also brook the previous JHU indoor record of 8’6".

The Blue Jays used a sixth place finish in the 4 x 200 meter relay in a time of 1:55.97, and two eighth place finishes in the distance medley relay in a time of 13:44.45, and the 4 x 800 meter relay in a time of 10:36.37 to pick up five team points.

For complete results, click here: http://www.dickinson.edu/sports/2005CCIndResults.htm

Team Scoring:

1. Dickinson — 129, 2. Muhelnberg — 126.5, 3. Gettysburg — 110, 4. Haverford — 88, 5. Franklin & Marshall — 54, 6. Bryn Mawr — 41, 7. Johns Hopkins — 40.5, 8. Ursinus — 32, 9. Swarthmore — 30, 10. McDaniel - 12

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