For the week ending April 27, 2008

Division I

Track Athlete of the Week

Carlleen Allison - Temple University
Junior, Acworth, Ga.

Allison met the ECAC standard in the 400-meter event this weekend at the TCNJ Lions Invitational.  The junior finished in second place with a time of 56.20 seconds.  She was also part of the 4x400-meter relay team that qualified for the ECAC Championship with a time of 3:48.88. 

Field Athlete of the Week

Ashley Harbin - Lafayette College
Senior, Clarksville, Tenn.

Harbin won her second consecutive title in the hammer throw at the Penn Relays with a distance of 61.34 meters.  The senior also reached a distance of 40.44 meters in the discus at the Lehigh Games later in the weekend. 

Division II

Co-Track Athletes of the Week

Melissa Nash - Bentley College
Senior, Marshfield, Mass.

Nash provisionally qualified for the NCAA Division II Championships in the 3,000 meter at the Brown Invitational.  Her time of 10:07.38 was good enough for third place behind a pair of Division I runners.

Letecia Taylor - Southern Connecticut State University
Sophomore, Plainfield, N.J.

Taylor set a personal-best in the 400 meter hurdles this weekend at the Penn Relays.  Her 1:02.24 time placed her 20th overall and also reached the NCAA provisional qualifying mark.

Field Athlete of the Week

Jacqui Barrett - University of Massachusetts-Lowell
Sophomore, Woburn, Mass. 

Barrett placed ninth overall and second among Division II or III competitors in the Collegiate Eastern Women's Shot Put at the Penn Relays with a throw of 13.41 meters.  She also captured the shot put at the Brown University Invitational with a distance of 13.79 meters, ranking her 11th this season on the Division II list for the NCAA Championship. 

Division III

Track Athlete of the Week

Jennifer Adams - Keene State College
Senior, Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

Adams competed in the Larry Ellis Invitational at Princeton University where she was the top Division III runner and fifth overall in the 5,000-meters with an automatic NCAA qualifying time of 16:56.03.  At the Penn Relays later that weekend, Adams finished fifth in the 10,000-meters with another automatic NCAA qualifying time of 35:03.33. 

Co-Field Athletes of the Week

Julia Hopson - SUNY Fredonia
Junior, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

Hopson was named the Most Outstanding Female performer at the SUNYAC Outdoor Championships after winning two events this past weekend.  The junior won the shot put with a throw of 12.92 meters and the hammer with a NCAA automatic qualifying and SUNYAC Championship record distance of 53.63 meters.  She also finished 11th in the discus with a throw of 32.18 meters. 

Crystal Blamy - Keene State College
Senior, Walpole, N.H.

Blamy posted an NCAA Division III Championship automatic qualifying mark of 1.70 meters in the high jump at the Penn Relays.  She also captured the New England Alliance/Little East Conference Championships in the same event with a leap of 1.67 meters.