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  • Track and field to Landmark Conference Championships

    Track and field to Landmark Conference Championships

    The Elizabethtown College men’s and women’s track and field teams competed in their last home meet Saturday, April 27. Both teams took first place out of the 14 teams that competed. The men’s team had a few shining stars. First-year Sam Niles became the eighth fastest-all-time in the 100m with a time of 11.14. First-year

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  • Two Blue Jays take spots in the track and field qualifying meet

    Two Blue Jays take spots in the track and field qualifying meet

    Junior Samuel Gerstenbacher and first-year Kelli Garriott represented Elizabethtown College’s track and field team Saturday, March 2 at the Tufts National Qualifying Meet. Gerstenbacher ran the 3,000-meter and placed third. He broke his own personal record and holds the school record in the respective event. Gerstenbacher ran 8:31.58, which was faster than his last record.

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  • Track & field regular season ends with Blue Jay Tune Up wins

    Track & field regular season ends with Blue Jay Tune Up wins

    Photo: Megan White Thursday, April 26 and Friday, April 27, the Elizabethtown College track and field teams participated in this year’s Penn Relays at Franklin Field. Thursday, senior Maria Anderson ran the 3,000-meter steeplechase for the women’s team. According to the Penn Relays website, she placed 26th with a time of 10:56.39 and nearly broke

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  • Track and field participates at Susquehanna and Dickinson

    Track and field participates at Susquehanna and Dickinson

    Saturday, Feb. 3, the Blue Jays made up a roster to split both the men and women’s track and field teams to participate in Susquehanna University’s S.U. Challenge. The other half went to compete in the Dickinson College’s DuCharme Invitational. Senior mid-distance runner Kelsey Brady stood out for the women as she stole first place

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  • Track and field athletes continue to improve their personal best scores

    Track and field athletes continue to improve their personal best scores

    Friday, Jan. 26, the Elizabethtown College women’s track and field members headed to Franklin & Marshall College to participate in a relatively small meet with a select number of field event athletes. Senior Alexa Feduchak won the weight throw for the second time in the past two meets. Feduchak has been exceptional, adding one meter

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  • Men’s and women’s track and field excels

    April 12-14 was an extremely busy period for the members of Elizabethtown College’s track and field team. During that time, several members of the team traveled to Gwynedd-Mercy College, Messiah College and Bucknell University to compete in the Mid-week Twilight Invitational, the Messiah Invitational and the Bison Outdoor Classic. The different meets drew participants for

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  • Runners place nationally, two wrestlers earn All-American

    Over spring break, athletes from two winter teams represented Elizabethtown College at the national level. Four male runners from the track team competed March 9 in the distance medley relay (DMR) at Grinnell College in Iowa. In addition, senior wrestlers Bill Meaney and Quint Eno finished in seventh and eighth place, respectively, at the NCAA

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  • Seniors Howser, Speiden speed past competitors

    Seniors Howser, Speiden speed past competitors

    After a successful Bucknell Bison Open and Multi meet the weekend of Jan. 27, the men’s and women’s track and field teams headed to Haverford for the Seamus McElligott meet this past weekend. Some field athletes also traveled to Widener on Friday in addition to the Haverford meet. Russell Speiden, a senior and All-American, ran

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  • Indoor track season begins

    While the majority of the student body is typing the last page of their research papers or living in the library until finals are over, Elizabethtown College’s men’s and women’s indoor track and field teams are busy preparing for their first meet of the season – the Haverford Holiday Meet. The Blue Jays, who have

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