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Women's Track and Field Headlines
The Track To Success: A Women's Track and Field Blog01/31/2012 Springfield, Mass. - January 31, 2012 - Sophomore Gabriella Gaudreault of Springfield College women's track and field team will be sharing her thoughts throughout the season as she provides an inside look of what it's like to be a college student-athlete. Read More. |
Women's Track and Field Wins Southern Maine Invitational Gorham, Maine - January 28, 2012 - The Springfield College women's track and field team put forth a dominating performance as it placed first out of 10 teams competing at the University of Southern Maine on Saturday afternoon. Read More. |
Women's Track and Field Takes Fourth Among Ten Teams Springfield, Mass. - January 21, 2012 - The Springfield College women’s indoor track and field team finished fourth in a home meet featuring 10 teams in the Springfield College Field House on Saturday afternoon, tallying 68 points for the meet. Read More. |
Women's Track and Field Dominates in Season-Opening Five-Way Springfield Meet Springfield, Mass. -- December 3, 2011 -- The Springfield College women's track and field team dominated a season-opening five-way indoor meet in the Springfield College Field House this afternoon, scoring 247.5 points in defeating four other teams. Read More |
More Headlines
- Five SC Women's Tracksters Named 2011 USTFCCCA Scholar Athletes
- Curtis Competes In Javelin at NCAA Championships
- Curtis Takes Fourth in Heptathlon at NCAA Championships
- Curtis Competes In Opening Day of NCAA Heptathlon
- Curtis Wins the USTFCCCA New England Field Athlete of the Year Award
About The Team
Head Coach Jim Pennington has guided 73 All-Americans in 26 seasons at Springfield College and has led the Pride to seven top-20 finishes at the NCAA Division III Indoor and Outdoor Championships. Current senior Kelly Curtis was the most recent Pride All-American, earning the honor for the 2010-2011 season in the heptathlon.The women's program, started in 1977, has been a perennial strong team in New England among all divisions. In 2009, Springfield indoors finished fifth of 24 scoring teams in the New England's before capturing the ECAC Championship. Outdoors, Springfield placed second in the NEWMAC's, tied for sixth in the New England's, and placed fourth in the ECAC's.
The team practices/competes at the Blake Track and Field facility, an eight-lane lighted facility with dual runways, 42-inch lanes, and new throwing circles and cages. It is considered to be one of the top facilities in New England for track & field. In August of 2008, Springfield College opened a new fieldhouse (with a 200 meter indoor track), as well as a new wellness center and exercise science building.
Senior Nikki Hay enters the final year of her illustrious career at Springfield. The 2009 USTFCCCA East Region Female Indoor and Outdoor Field Athlete of the Year, Hay finished fifth in the triple jump at the Indoor NCAA's and fourth in the same event at the Outdoor NCAA's.
Pennington will also depend upon many additional outstanding returnees for point production in 2010.
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Head Coach Jim Pennington
Jim Pennington enters his 27th season as head coach of the Springfield College women’s cross country and track and field teams in 2010-2011. Under Pennington’s direction, the Pride has recorded seven top 20 finishes at the NCAA Indoor and Outdoor Track & Field Championships, and seven top 15 finishes at the NCAA Cross Country Championships.
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