Mandi Mooney
Assistant Editor/Web Administrator
The men’s and women’s indoor track teams competed in the NAIA Indoor Track
Championships at ETSU at the beginning of spring break and had a disappointing
end to an overall outstanding season.
Returning champion in the women’s 5,000-meter run sophomore Marta Zimon dropped
all the way to a 10th place finish in her event with a time of 18 minutes and
29.95 seconds. Sophomore Megan Lease also ran in the 5,000 and finished 12th
with a final time of 18:42.26.
For the men’s team, sophomore Chris Wright had a final burst of energy in the
last leg of the 3,000-meter run as he raced ahead to a fifth place finish
(8:37.94). The men's distance medley relay team of freshmen Sean Bowman, Jair
Collie, Josh Ferry and Wright came in seventh place overall as their final time
was 10:25.57.
Also competing at nationals was Bowman in the men’s one-mile run. However, he
did not make it out of the preliminary round as he finished in 17th place with a
time of 4:28.23.
“Everyone improved but we just had a bad day,” said Lease, “You can’t judge a
whole season on one day.”
The women’s distance medley relay team of Lease, freshmen Allison Langrel and
Amber Peace and Zimon qualified but did not compete because the relay was
scheduled right after the women’s 5,000 in which Lease and Zimon ran.
Physically, they were unable to run the second race.
The indoor track teams began their outdoor spring season this week as they
officially began training. Their first meet will be April 7-10 at the Sea Ray
Relays in Knoxville, Tenn.