Three Big Green Earn Individual Championships at Ivy Heptagonals

Sunday, May 8

New Haven, Conn.

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Dartmouth College

Heptagonals - Day 2

Three Big Green Earn Individual Championships at Ivy Heptagonals

5/8/2011 6:13:00 PM | Women's Track & Field

By: Dartmouth

NEW HAVEN, CONN. — The Dartmouth women's track and field team finished sixth (74 points) at the Women's Ivy League Heptagonal Championship hosted by Yale on Sunday. The Big Green had three individual winners, which marked the most first-place finishes since having three in 1998. Princeton won the team championship with 132 points, Cornell finished second with 113 points and Brown placed third with 101 points.

Senior Alex Tanner (Baltimore, Md.) highlighted the Big Green's titlewinners with a record-breaking performance in the 400-meter hurdles. Tanner crossed the finish line with a time of 58.27. It broke her own school record (59.03), which she reset at the Larry Ellis Invitational in April. She has the top five times in Dartmouth history, and is the only athlete with a time under one minute. At last year's Heptagonals, Tanner finished third in the 400 hurdles after winning the event in 2009.

In the heptathlon, junior Priscilla Trojano (W. Bridgewater, Mass.) defended her 2010 crown by winning this year's event with 4,728 points. Last year, she took the top spot with 4,787 points. Trojano had to fend off her teammate, junior Rocco Pallin (Kenosha, Wis.), who finished third in the event with 4,634 points.

Freshman Abbey D'Agostino (Topsfield, Mass.) made the most of her first time at the outdoor Heps by winning the 5,000 meters with a time of 16:46.00. She finished a full two seconds ahead of her closest competition.

The Big Green also had two athletes take home second-place finishes. Junior Alexi Pappas (Alameda, Calif.) placed second in the 3,000-meter steeplechase with a time of 10:25.82. In the high jump, freshman Janae Dunchack (Northern Cambria, Pa.) finished in a tie for second with a mark of 1.70 meters (5-07.00 feet).

In the triple jump, junior Malina Simmers (Anchorage, Alaska) took third with a jump of 12.58 meters (41-03.25 feet). Dartmouth had three athletes finish in fifth in their individual events. Junior Christina Supino (Windham, N.H.) crossed the finish line in fifth in the 800 meters at 2:09.26, freshman Katelyn Walker (Shaker Heights, Ohio) took fifth in the 3,000 meters at 9:52.86 and senior Tina Alexander (Austin, Texas) placed fifth in the discus at 43.59 meters (142-00.00 feet).

The Big Green also had three eighth-place finishers. Freshman Arianna Vailas (Manchester, N.H.) placed eighth in the 1,500 meters at 4:32.69, freshman Megan Krumpoch (Shrewsbury, Mass.) took eighth in the 400-meter hurdles at 1:02.89 and freshman Corinne Kominkiewicz (East Brunswick, N.J.) finished eighth in the discus at 40.52 meters.

The best relay finish for Dartmouth came in the 4x800-meter relay. The quartet of freshman Monica Adler (Manchester, Mass.), senior Andrea Imhof (San Francisco, Calif.), Vailas and Supino took fourth with a time of 8:45.11.

The Big Green next compete at the ECAC's next weekend hosted by Princeton.