Women Finish in a Program Best 5th Place at CTC's

Collegiate Track Conference Championships
Friday, Feb. 12th - Saturday, Feb. 13th, 2010
Wesleyan University - Middletown, Conn.

Farmingdale, N.Y. - The Farmingdale State women's indoor track team scored a record 56 points to finish in 5th place out of 21 teams at this weekend's Collegiate Track Conference Championship at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn. This is the highest finish in school history, as every woman recorded a score towards the team total in the meet.

Freshman Corine Magee placed 2nd in the 55m in 7.35 (7.39 trials) and 3rd in the 200m in 26.39. Corine also ran a blazing 25.95 anchor leg to lead the 4x200m Relay to a 2nd place school record - 1:47.28. This is the second time the team of Kathleen Clermont, Faustine Chukwuezi, Victoria Mandat and Magee have broken the record this season.

The team will compete next at the NYU Last Chance Meet on Friday, February 26th.

Additional scorers...

Field Events

20-Lb. Weight Throw
Gina Pierre - 4th place, 12.78m (41' 11 1/4")

Triple Jump
Faustine Chukwuezi - 1st place, 10.90m (35' 9 1/4")
Victoria Mandat - 3rd place, 10.30m (33' 9 1/2")

Running Events

500m
Marjorie Diemicke - 8th place, 1:26.42, moves from #7 to #6 on All-Time list

1000m
Melissa Bonilla - 5th place, 3:23.32

Pentathlon
Nicole Zarek - 7th place, 1646 points

4x400m Relay
Diemicke, Mandat, Clermont, Bonilla - 4:32.39, #7 on All-Time list

Team Scores
1. Mansfield - 134
2. Rowan - 108
3. Stockton - 87.1666
4. York (N.Y.)- 67
5. Farmingdale St.- 56
6. Stevens Institute - 47
7. Georgian Court - 46.3333
8. Ramapo - 40.5
9. New Jersey City - 39
10. New Jersey Institute - 29
11. Montclair State - 28
12. Cheyney - 27
13. Rutgers-Newark - 22
14. Holy Name - 20
15. Lehman - 19
16. DeSales - 16.5
17. Sacred Heart - 16
18. Medgar Evers - 13
19. Kean - 6.5
20. St. Joseph's (L.I.) - 4
21. Hunter - 1

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