Greencastle, Ind. The DePauw women's indoor track and field team totaled 102.5 points for third place, just .5 behind second-place Ohio Wesleyan at the North Coast Athletic Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships. Wittenberg won with 190 points.
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The Tigers tallied 14 top-ten finishes on the final day of the NCAC Championships, with four all-conference performances.
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DePauw seniors
Jaida Smith and
Seelye Stoffregen led the team with five top-ten finishes between them on the second day of the NCAC Championships. Stoffregen ran the first leg in the second-place 4x400 relay, running with
Ava Knight,
Morgan Tharp, and
Annalise Grammel (4:09.50). She would go on to take fourth in the 400-meter run (1:02.07) and seventh in the 60-meter hurdles (9.82). Smith anchored the fifth-place 4x200 relay; joining her were
Alexis Cagan,
Grace Truax, and
Emily Loera (1:51.66). In triple jump, Smith finished fifth with a distance of 10.39m (34-1.25).
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The remaining three all-conference performances were in three different events. Grammel came in first with a time of 2:19.93, over in shot put,
Bree Mahoney-Sutherland finished second with a throw of 12.23m (40-1.5), and in the 800-meter run,
Meredith Sierpina finished third in the 3k run with a time of 10:34.68.
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Knight and Tharp also finished in the top ten for the 800-meter run, with Knight finishing in 2:26.32 for fifth, followed by Tharp coming in seventh with a time of 2:31.47.
Tessa Kochert took seventh in the triple jump with a distance of 10.26 (33-8), and in the mile,
Emma Jacobs finished in sixth (5:26.57), and
Rachel DeLancey finished in ninth with a time of 5:31.26. And in high jump,
Abby Hartman finished in eighth with a height of 1.50m (4-11.00).
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Some women's DePauw track and field team members will be competing in the Last Chance Meet on Friday, March 3; stay tuned for more information