Feb. 18, 2007

Complete Results

Akron, Ohio - With a strong second day of competition, the Georgetown University women's indoor track & field team won the 2007 BIG EAST Indoor Track & Field Championship on Sunday at the Athletic Field House on the campus of the University of Akron. The women totaled 112 points to top Notre Dame, who was second with 101.60. It is the Hoyas' sixth women's indoor championship and their first since 2001. The men placed fourth with 82 points, trailing Notre Dame (133.50), Louisville (131) and Connecticut (81).

The Georgetown coaching staff of Ron Helmer, Pat Henner, Scott McLeod, Monica Hargrove, Hank Bradley and Ed Rice were named the BIG EAST Conference Staff of the Year at the end of the event.

On Sunday, the Hoyas had two individual champions and 11 medalist finishes. Junior Ashley Hubbard (Marshfield, Mass./Marshfield) won the women's 500m on Sunday and redshirt junior Elizabeth Maloy (Loudonville, N.Y./The Academy of Holy Names) followed a couple events later by winning the women's 3000m.

The morning began for the Hoyas with the women's 800m. Sophomore Avril Ogrodnick (Beaconsfield, Que./Beaconsfield) led the charge, placing third in 2:52.29, edging out Providence's Meghan Owen at the finish line for a medalist position. Freshman Lauren Gregory (Denville, N.Y./Morris Knolls) was eighth overall, setting a new personal record of 2:53.55.

Freshman Alex Bean (Somers, N.Y./Somers) continued his impressive initial campaign with Georgetown, earning medalist honors with a strong kick down the homestretch to place third in 2:26.15. Redshirt sophomore Brandon Bonsey (Falmouth, Maine/Falmouth) was fifth in 2:26.78, improving upon his PR that he set yesterday.

Georgetown held the third, fourth and fifth spots in the women's 800m finals. In a tight race for second place, Villanova's Arusha McKenzie edged the Hoya duo of freshman Renee Tomlin (Ocean City, N.J./Ocean City) and senior Nana Hanson-Hall (New Rochelle, N.Y./New Rochelle) by less than a tenth of a second. Tomlin was third, earning All-BIG EAST honors, in 2:11.56, only .08 of a second ahead of Hanson-Hall. Junior Ashley Hubbard (Marshfield, Mass./Marshfield) was fifth in 2:13.18.

In the men's 800m, two Hoyas scored, led by graduate student Stanley Lagrenade (Nyack, N.Y./Nyack) who was fifth in 1:53.50. Freshman John Maloy (Loudonville, N.Y./Shaker) made a push at the end to finish in eighth at 1:54.05.

Sophomore Terrell Gissendanner (Rochester, N.Y./Edison Tech) repeated his finish of last year in the 60m hurdles, placing third, setting a new personal record of 8.13.

Classmate Kenny Mitchell (Atlanta, Ga./Westlake) finished one spot better than last year, placing fourth in the 60m, running 6.89. Mitchell was a hair shy of Pittsburgh's Samuel Perkins, who took third by two one-thousandth of a second. Later in the day, Mitchell ran 22.12 in the 200m to finish sixth, two places better than his finish at last year's championship.

The Hoyas had three scorers in both the men's and women's mile finals on Sunday. For the women, graduate student Hilary Bontz (Fort Collins, Colo./Columbia University) earned her first BIG EAST individual medalist honors, placing third in 4:51.42, a season-best mark. Junior Joanna Rodgers (Fairfax, Va./NC State) was fifth in 4:53.32, while sophomore Lise Ogrodnick (Beaconsfield, Que./Beaconsfield) was eighth in 4:55.49. On the men's side, redshirt sophomore Matt Debole (Winston-Salem, N.C./Mount Tabor) was fourth in 4:06.15, followed in the results by classmate Michael Banks (Holden, Mass./Wachusett Regional) in 4:07.96. Redshirt freshman Alex Mason (Scottsdale, Ariz./Brophy Prep) held off two other competitors for seventh, running 4:11.52, a new Georgetown personal record.

Hubbard won the first individual BIG EAST title for Georgetown on Sunday, winning the 500m race. Hubbard outstretched Maxcine Foster of St. John's at the finish line to win by one-tenth of a second in 1:11.56. Hanson-Hall finished fourth overall in her second event today, winning the second heat in 1:12.96.

Senior Nichole Torpey (Parker, Colo./Ponderosa) ran a personal record time of 55.35 to finish second in her heat and sixth overall in the women's 400m.

Elizabeth Maloy grabbed the second individual conference title for the Hoyas today, taking the women's 3000m crown. She outlegged Aine Hoban of Providence down the straight away for a time of 9:27.30, setting a new personal record and improving upon her previously run NCAA provisional time this season. It is the first Georgetown win in the women's 3000m since 1996 and first to win the event at the indoor championships. Lise Ogrodnick scored in her second event of the day, placing fourth in a new PR of 9:34.58. Redshirt sophomore Melissa Grelli (Cupertino, Calif./Presentation), who was fourth in the 5000m yesterday, was sixth in 9:36.76, also setting a new personal mark. Meanwhile, sophomore Natasha LaBeaud (Folsom, Calif./Folsom) closed out the scorers, placing eighth in 9:42.25, a season-best mark.

In the men's 5000m, redshirt freshman Levi Miller (Belfast, Maine/Belfast Area) had a strong close to move into third place, earning All-BIG EAST honors. Miller ran 8:06.85, followed by graduate student Fleet Hower (Marion, Va./Marion) who was fifth in 8:07.12. Senior Brian Dalpiaz (Sayville, N.Y./Sayville) was eighth in 8:16.05 to earn a point for the Hoyas.

In the women's triple jump, senior Ashley Mondie (Washington, D.C./Milton Hershey) was sixth with a distance of 39'3.25" (11.97m) and junior Alex Baptiste (Blue Bell, Pa./Wissahickon) was eighth, but jumped a new personal record distance of 38'11.5" (11.87m).

The team titles came down to the 4x800m and 4x400m relays to end the weekend's competition. The Hoyas were second in both of the 4x800m relays. In the women's 4x800m, the Hoyas were second running their fastest time this season, 8:50.49, with the combination of Avril Ogrodnick, Bontz, Hanson-Hall and Tomlin taking the baton. The men also improved upon their season-best time, crossing in 7:33.37, behind Banks, Maloy, DeBole and Bean.

The women clinched their title with a third place showing in the 4x400m relay. Torpey, Baptiste, freshman Abigail Johnson (Hershey, Pa./Milton Hershey) and Hubbard combined to run 3:42.39. The men closed out the weekend by finishing fourth in the 4x400m relay in 3:15.17, behind Mitchell, Lagrenade, freshman Danny Harris (Deer Park, N.Y./St. John the Baptist) and senior Kevin Ward (Manhasset, N.Y./Regis).