Women's Track and Field makes strong showing at Bison Outdoor Classic
Hildebrand, Cross, Barker, and Tansey earn first place honors.
 
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April 12, 2003 

RESULTS

LEWISBURG, P.A. – The Lady Raiders returned from Bucknell with a number of individual highlights.  The freshmen 4x800 team of Sarah Hildebrand (Fairport, NY), Lia Cross (Skaneateles, NY), Julia Barker (Rumson, NJ), and Emily Tansey (Scituate, MA) finished first and set the Colgate freshman record with a time of 9:44.79. 

In her first jump of the season after coming off an injury, freshman Shannon O’Hagan (Ontario, Canada) placed third in the high jump with a height of 1.60 meters.  Other notables for Colgate included freshman Lisa Germain (Queensbury, NY) and sophomore Beth Stephenson (Hyannis, MA), who finished in fourth and sixth place respectively in the long jump with heights of 5.34 and 5.27 meters.

The Raiders will next travel to California for the Pomona Pitzer Invite and the Long Beach Invite.  The all-day events start on Thursday, April 17 and conclude on Saturday, April 19.