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Women's Track & Field

Breagy wins 1,000m Title, Pickford Places Second in Pole Vault

Complete results - Siobhan Breagy interview (video)

Meet Information

2012 ECAC Division I Indoor Track & Field Championship

Reggie Lewis Track & Field Athletic Center – Boston, Mass.

Sunday March 4, 2012

Setting the Scene

Rhode Island placed 12th after the two-day ECAC Championship, scoring 23 points. Cornell won the title with 55 points, followed by Maryland-Eastern Shore with 54, and Princeton rounding out the top three with 44 points.

Rhode Island Results:

  • Siobhan Breagy won the 1,000m title in 2:49.20 and Hayley Madsen finished sixth in a personal best and URI junior class record time of 2:52.00. The old record was 2:52.74 by Becky Alves (1983). Madsen ran her previous pr on Saturday in the prelims (2:54.98).
  • Kaylan Pickford earned second in the pole vault, clearing 3.80m, just shy of her personal record 3.82m she set at last weekend's New England's where she broke a 13-year-old URI record. Princeton's Tory Worthen won with a clearance of 3.90m.

Up Next

Rhode Island opens its outdoor season at the UNC-Charlotte 49er Classic, running March 15-17 in Charlotte, N.C.

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