Gousen, Guevel All-East on First Day of ECAC Indoor Championships

Allie Lewis Advances in 800m with School-Record Performance

03/08/08 7:15PM

BOSTON, MASS - Two athletes earned All-East honors for the William and Mary women’s track and field team Saturday on the first day of the ECAC Indoor Championships, and another ran a school-record time to advance to Sunday’s finals. Syracuse leads the team standings with 29 points, while the College is tied for 13th with five points.

Complete Saturday Results

Senior Emily Gousen (Arlington, Va.) ran the team’s season-best 5,000m time, 17:11.81, to finish eighth and earn All-East accolades. It is the fifth such award in her career, after also finishing in the top eight in the 5,000m both indoors and outdoors last year and finishing in the top-25 at the last two ECAC cross country championships.

Freshman Katie Guevel (Burlington, Kan.) also earned All-East honors after finishing fifth in the pentathlon with 3,453 points. She posted top-five event finishes in the 800m (third in 2:23.73), the 60m hurdles (fourth in 8.80 seconds), and in the shot put (fifth with a put of 35’ 5.25”).

Senior Allie Lewis (Roanoke, Va.) qualified for Sunday’s 800m finals as the fourth seed after running a career-best 2:09.68 in preliminaries. Her time broke Diane Hawley’s 25-year old school indoor record of 2:11.38, and ranks her fifth all-time at the College. Lewis was also just behind the NCAA provisional-qualifying standard of 2:09.00 (2:05.00 is the automatic standard), but did qualify for the East Regional outdoors.

Also on Saturday, sophomore Alyssa Gaeto (Brentwood,Tenn.) just missed All-East accolades in the long jump, placing 10th with a leap of 18’ 1.75”. Classmate Kayley Byrne (Oak Hill, Va.) was 15th in the 5,000m with a time of 17:32.38, and Meghan Burns (Coopersburg, Pa.) ran 4:59.19 in the preliminaries of the mile for 19th. In the 1,000m preliminaries, redshirt-freshman Ariel Burbey (Blacksburg, Va.) was 19th in 2:58.01 and sophomore Kelly McElroy (Wyomissing, Pa.) was 24th in 3:02.35.

The ECAC Championships conclude tomorrow.

Team Standings
1. Syracuse 29
2. Harvard 16
3. Connecticut 14.5
T4. Sacred Heart 13
T4. Providence 13
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T13. WILLIAM AND MARY 5