History is made step by step -- in every day of training, in
every day of core, in every day of rolling out and stretching and ice bathing,
and lifting, and the multitude of little things that add up to the big things
of an ECAC title. Our women’s 4x800 relay team won the ECAC Championships and
shattered last year’s school record by more than six seconds. It happened step
by step, leg by marvelous, give-you-the-chills leg. Shea Bohan, doing what a
champion leadoff leg does: Going out hard, making it stick, and handing that
stick off decisively with a breakthrough leg of 2:13.464. Kerry Gaye, taking it
and keeping that lead by going out aggressively and holding off hard-charging
teams, 2:16.343. Jenna Robinson, the woman who literally OWNS this record,
having been on three consecutive versions of it, running a truly graceful and
awesome leg of 2:14.548 and handing off to Denise Grohn, who had Saturday’s school-record
1,500-meter race in her legs, and who held the burden of maintaining and
extending that lead with a 2:15.986. But here’s the kicker of this
championship. We had to wait 10 minutes to realize it was an actual
championship! You see, our awesome relay won the first (“slow”) heat. The
second (“fast”) heat came next. We watched impassively, knowing that we would
at least score, with six teams in that race. However, as we watched the “fast”
heat unfold, we realized that it wasn’t so fast, compared to our 9:00.34. And
when the “winner” of the “fast” heat came charging down the finish stretch and
crossed the line at 9:00.75, we realized that our win was really a win. As in:
First place. In the meet! Wow! What a way to end the season; what a way to cap
Jenna’s awesome career on the track. What a way to end an excellent weekend for
our team. Neat!
Earlier in the day, in the pouring rain, with lane four
drenched in puddles, Debbie Boerke finished a strong second in her section of
the 400-meter hurdles, finishing a championship-caliber season with a 14th-place
time of 1:02.49 – pretty good in that slop.
ECAC Championships
Princeton University
Sunday, May 13, 2018
Women’s results and
splits
3,200-meter relay
1-Marist (Shea Bohan 2:13.464, Kerry Gaye 2:16.343, Jenna
Robinson 2:14.548, Denise Grohn 2:15.986) 9:00.34 *school record, old record
9:06.60 by Shea Bohan, Emily Burns, Jenna Robinson, Denise Grohn, 2017)
400-meter hurdles
14. Debbie Boerke 1:02.49
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