Track ends season with races at Penn

The Johns Hopkins Men's and Women's Track and Field teams
wrapped up their regular season last week at the University of
Pennsylvania Relays and the Millersville Metrics.

There was no team scoring at either meet, yet the squad boasted a number of impressive individual performances.

"We had a lot of personal records," said freshman Gabe Tonkin.

Hopkins sent a small team to the Penn Relays, including senior Kathy Darling and the men's and women's 4x400 relay teams.

In the discus, Darling was the top Division III finisher and placed third out of 27 competitors with a throw of 157 ft.

Darling's season best throw of 150'9" in the javelin gave her a fourth place finish in the javelin championship.

While the men's 4x400 relay team did not finish, the women placed 12th out of 14 schools with a season-best time of 4:18.70.

At the Millersville Metrics, the men recorded three top-five finishes.
Senior Quinlan Amos was second in the 200-meter dash with a time of
22.1 seconds. Junior Justin Leck posted a season-best mark of 149'5" in
the javelin placing him second overall.

Senior John Onofrey rounded out the top performances as he came in fifth
in the 1,500-meter run with a time of 4:08.9. Freshman Derrick Norgriff
also performed well as he finishing 10th in the shot put with a throw
of 38'3.75" and 12th in the discus with 109'11".

"Our top distance freshman, Nick Sousa, is sick and is going to be out for conferences," said Tonkin.

For the women, sophomore Andrea King finished third in the shot put with
a throw of 35'5", while freshman Joanna Cohen was 14th in the 200-meter
dash with JHU's best 200-meter time of the season, 27.7 seconds.

Sophomore Maureen Kimsey was 13th in the 1,500 meter run and senior
Ly-Lan Wisler was 16th. Kimsey's time was 5:10.5 and Wisler's was
5:14.5.

"Considering the poor weather, the team as a whole did quite well. When
you get there [Millersville] and realize it's pouring rain, you're not
exactly looking to set a personal record," said Kimsey.

Hopkins will travel to Gettysburg, Pa. for the 2003 Centennial Conference Championships at Gettysburg College next Saturday.

"I'm excited and I think the team is going to do really well this
weekend. This week is traditionally tapper week for us, which means we
don't train as hard as we normally do in order to keep our legs fresh
for conferences," said Kimsey.

"The track team came out coming running strong and we are ready to rock
and roll at conferences this weekend. Millersville was a good meet to
get ready for conferences," said freshman Elizabeth Krimmel