The ECAC Championship @ Princeton concluded the season for our full team and the future looks bright with 5 newcomers earning ALL-EAST honors. Freshman Priscilla Frederick continued her outstanding season taking 8th in the high jump and the 4 x 800m relay team of junior transfer Tyneka Green, sophomore Pam Petruski, in her first collegiate outdoor season, and freshmen Kim Piard, Sarah Sudbury clocked a season best 9:04.84 in the prelims. The finals the next day seemed to symbolize the entire 2008 season. As the rain poured down and with freshmen Shakira Best running in place of the injured Piard, the 4 x 800m pushed to an eighth place finish. Our young and inexperienced squad had fought off injury and illness, cold and wet weather, to compete with the best track & field athletes in the Eastern United States.
We will be sending Big East 400m champion Maxcine Foster and freshmen high jumper Priscilla Frederick to the NCAA Regional in Tallahassee, Florida the last weekend in May. Both have an excellent chance of placing in the top 5 to advance to the NCAA finals at Drake University the middle weekend of June. This marks the 18th consecutive year that St. John's has qualified athletes to the NCAA championships. Frederick is also qualified to the USA Junior Championships at Ohio Sate the third week of June. The top two finishers at the junior meet will make the USA National team that competes in the World Junior Championships in Poland in July.
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