Women's Track: Stechshulte Places Third
May 15, 2005 09:06 AM | General
May 15, 2005
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – West Virginia University got a third-place finish on Saturday from sophomore Abbie Stechschulte in the women’s heptathlon at the 129th annual ECAC outdoor track and field championships held at Princeton University in Princeton, N.J.
Stechshulte scored 4,952 points; Liberty’s Danielle McNaney won the event with 5,404 points.
The Columbus Grove, Ohio, resident earned six team points for her efforts to give the Mountaineers 11 team points after two days worth of competition. West Virginia is currently 12th heading into Sunday’s finals. Pitt leads the meet with 39 team points.
A handful of Mountaineers were able to qualify for Sunday’s finals. Senior Jenn Kemp won the preliminaries of the 800-meter run with a time of 2:06.50. Jessica Czaikowski took fifth in her heat of the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 13.74 to advance.
The 4x100-meter relay team of Czaikowski, Halimah Bashir, Shani Boone and Junique Morris placed fifth with a time of 46.48 to advance to the finals.
Competition concludes Sunday.
