Women's Track and Field (for the week ending April 26, 2009)

Division I

Track Athlete of the Week

Anna Hoffman - Saint Francis University (Pa.)
Sophomore, Enon Valley, Pa.

Hoffman placed second out of 39 athletes in the 1,500-meter run and first among collegians at the Red Flash Open.  The three-time NEC champion in the 5K, the junior clocked in at 4:42.29 to give her the top time in the conference for the event.

Field Athlete of the Week

Ashley Lewis - University at Albany
Junior, Riverhead, N.Y.

Lewis broke a school record, qualified for the ECAC Championships, and won two events at the Capital District Classic held by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.  She broke the school record and qualified for the ECAC Championship in the javelin with a throw of 136-6 feet to finish first.  The junior placed second in the discus with a toss of 128 feet and won the long jump with a leap of 16-11.25 feet.



Division II

Track Athlete of the Week

Shannon Gagne - University of New Haven
Junior, Meriden, Conn.

Gagne won the 100-meter and 200-meter dash at the Yale University Springtime Invitational last week.  She clocked in at a school record 11.96 seconds in the 100, becoming the first female in school history to break 12 seconds.  In the 200, she finished in a season-best 24.42 seconds.


Field Athlete of the Week

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

Barrett placed third overall and first among Division II and III throwers in the shot put at the Brown Spring Invitational.  She threw a season-best distance of 46-6 feet, placing her sixth on the Division II list this season. 



Division III

Track Athlete of the Week

Gabby Cyr - University of Southern Maine
Senior, Fort Kent, Maine

Cyr was a double winner in the 1,500 and 5,000-meter races at the Little East Championships.  She clocked in at 4:51.17 in the 1,500 and 20:03.41 in the 5,000 to lead Southern Maine to its tenth straight conference title.

Field Athlete of the Week

Kristen Serikstad - SUNY Cortland
Junior, Oyster Bay, N.Y.

Serikstad tied a 25-year school record in the high jump with a winning height of 1.68 meters at the Ithaca Open.  She went on to break that record at the Cornell Big Red Invitational with a mark of 1.70 meters later in the week, barely missing the NCAA qualifying mark of 1.71 meters.  Serikstad placed second and qualified for the ECAC Championship in the javelin with a throw of 36.52 meters.