Emily Anderson Provisionally Qualifies for Olympic Trials at 1,500m

Sophomore Breaks School Record by Nearly Two Seconds at UNC

05/09/08 11:28PM

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - Sophomore standout Emily Anderson (Golf, Ill.) added another feather to her brightly-plumaged cap Friday afternoon, provisionally-qualifying for the U.S. Olympic Trials in the 1,500m run with the sixth-best performance in the NCAA this year. The William and Mary team as a whole totaled a pair of NCAA Regional and five ECAC qualifications at North Carolina on Friday, competing in the final regular-season event of the year.

Complete Results

Anderson ran 4:17.02 to take second in the 1,500m race and break Emily Furia’s ‘01 school record of 4:18.44 set May 31, 2001 in the preliminaries of the NCAA Championships. In addition to provisionally-qualifying Anderson for the U.S. Olympic Trials at the end of June, it also qualified her for the ECAC Championships and NCAA East Regional.

Also qualifying for the East Regional and ECACs was sophomore Nicole Kazuba (Chantilly, Va.), who cleared the bar at 12’ 7.5” in the pole vault to break the qualifying height for the fourth time this season. Freshman Emily Jeremiah (Mechanicsville, Va.) set a personal-best mark with her clearance of 12’ 1.5”, qualifying for the ECAC Championships and tying the freshman record set by Kazuba last year. Jeremiah is only the third woman in school history to break the 12-foot barrier.

In the 800m, sophomore Kelly McElroy (Wyomissing, Pa.) ran a career-fast 2:10.23 to take sixth and qualify for the ECAC Championships. McElroy’s performance is the fastest time on the team this season outdoors, and ranks her seventh all-time at the College. The final ECAC-qualifying performance came courtesy of freshman Katie Guevel (Burlington, Kan.), who ran 14.41 in the 100m hurdles to reaffirm her place at the championships. Guevel also competed in the javelin throw, taking fifth with a throw of 117’ 2”.

Junior Abby Lemon (Berryville, Va.) won the hammer throw with a toss of 169’ 11”, the second-best throw in school history behind only her CAA-title winning effort of 175 feet three weeks ago. Sophomore Ashley Williams (Williamsburg, Va.) took fourth in the hammer, throwing for 145’ 6”. In the 5,000m, senior Abby Booker (Haddonfield, N.J.) started her graduation weekend by taking second with a time of 17:56.54, and sophomore Rachel Ohm (West Coxsackie, N.Y.) was fourth in 18:45.47. CAA Champion Carly Morse (Sumerduck, Va.) finished third in the shot put with a put of 43’ 11.25”.

With the regular season now concluded, the College’s ECAC qualifiers will travel to Princeton, New Jersey for the ECAC Championships next Friday through Sunday, May 16-18. 19 athletes and two relays have totaled 26 qualifications to the meet, which brings together the best athletes from Maine to North Carolina and from Indiana to the Atlantic coast.