CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—The Babson College women's track & field team recorded five top-five finishes and seven personal bests at the Sean Collier Invitational on the campus of MIT on Saturday afternoon.
The top individual result of the day came in the 200 meters as sophomore Angela Hagstrom (Portsmouth, N.H.) posted a career-best time of 26.32 to take second place. First-year Robyn Wilkes (Atlanta, Ga.) was a half-second behind her in sixth place with a season-best time of 26.81, while senior Caroline Reilly (East Greenwich, R.I.) crossed the finish line with a career-best time of 27.21 that was good for 10th.
Hagstrom (1:01.01) and Reilly (1:01.81) came in fifth and seventh, respectively, in the 400 meters and teamed with Wilkes and first-year Brooke Jankowski (Methuen, Mass.) to win the 4x100-meter relay by 0.02 seconds with a time of 50.20. Jankowski also took third place in the 100-meter hurdles with a season-best time of 15.54 and classmate Julia Pike (Mansfield, Mass.) posted her top time of the year (16.28) to finish in seventh position.
Senior Nicole Johns (Peabody, Mass.) came in fourth with a time of 20:43.25 in the 5000 meters, while the trio of first-years Ashna Krishnamurthy (Saratoga, Calif.), classmate Trista Sicard (Mansfield, Mass.) and Jankowski finished sixth through eighth in the long jump. Krishnamurthy posted the top result with a leap of 15-feet, 9-inches and Sicard (15-feet, 4.75-inches) and Jankowski (15-feet, 4-inches) placed seventh and eighth, respectively.
Jankowski added a seventh-place showing by clearing 4-feet, 8.25-inches in the high jump and Sicard came in eighth with a leap of 33-feet, 6-inches in the triple jump. Wilkes placed eighth in the 100-meter dash with a time of 12.82, while Krishnamurthy crossed the finish line in 13.57 to finish 12th overall.
Sophomore Jacquelyn Elward (Ipswich, Mass.) recorded her top results for the second meet in a row with a throw of 86-feet, 8-inches in the discus.
Babson returns to Cambridge for the NEWMAC Championships next Saturday and Sunday at MIT.
