3/28/2009		Women's track runs strong at W&L/VMI Carnival
3/13/2009		Tiffany Kulp finishes 10th in mile run at NCAA Division III Championships
3/11/2009		Tiffany Kulp to compete at Division III Indoor Track Championships
3/8/2009		Women's track runs at Virginia Tech Last Chance Meet

ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE WOMEN'S TRACK AND FIELD
Saturday, March 28, 2009

Elizabethtown at W&L/VMI Carnival

LEXINGTON, Va. --- The Elizabethtown College women's track & field team opened their 2009 outdoor schedule at the two-day Washington & Lee/Virginia Military Institute Carnival, which concluded Saturday.

Senior Tiffany Kulp (Perkasie, PA/Pennridge) won the 5,000 meters and provisionally qualified for the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field championships with a time of 17:19.16, less than five seconds shy of the school record of 17:14.79 set at the NCAA championships by Melissa St. Clair in 2005.

Kulp opened the 3.1 mile race by covering the first mile in 5:39, and dropped to 5:36 in the second mile and 5:26 in the third mile.

Kulp also anchored the 4x800-meter relay that set a school record and finished fourth in 9:51.44, running with junior Megan VanDenHengel (Mechanicsburg, PA/Cumberland Valley), junior Bern Frawley (Berwyn, PA/Sacred Heart) and first-year student Kathryn Howser (Annapolis, MD/Annapolis).

The previous record in the 4x800 was 9:58.54, set by the team of Kim Whalen, Amanda Santore, Julie Torchia and Melissa St. Clair in a home quad meet on April 3, 2004.

Joining Kulp with top performance in the 5,000 meters were senior Amanda Daws (Thorofare, NJ/West Deptford), who finished fourth in 18:24.83 and turned in the fourth-best time in school history, and sophomore Kristen O'Brien (Westminster, MD/Winters Mill) whose time of 18:50.88 was seventh in the race and eighth-best in program history.

In the 10,000 meters, sophomore Alex Walmer (Hershey, PA/Hershey) finished fifth in 43:16.03 with splits of 21:57 and 21:18, and first-year student Katie Nordyke (Monrovia, MD/Urbana) was sixth in 43:38.02 with 5k splits of 21:57 and 21:40.

Senior Chelsea Miles (Media, PA/Penncrest) was fifth in the high jump with a mark of 4 feet, 10 1/4 inches, sixth in the triple jump at 34 feet, 6 3/4 inches and eighth in the 200 meters at 27.64 seconds, the ninth-best time in school history.

Frawley finished eighth in the 400 meters in 1:03.10 to rank eighth in program history, VanDenHengel took seventh in the 800 meters at 2:21.17 (fifth in school history) and Howser was eighth in the 800 at 2:21.33 (sixth fastest in school history).

Sophomore Allie Gold (Columbia, PA/Hempfield) competed in the heptathlon and amassed 3,165 points to finish in third place and record the third-most points in the event in school history.

W&L/VMI Carnival
at Lexington, Va.

Tiffany Kulp Finishes 10th in Mile Run at NCAA Division III Indoor Track Championships

Tiffany Kulp to Compete at NCAA Division III Indoor Track Championships

ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. --- Elizabethtown College senior Tiffany Kulp (Perkasie, PA/Pennridge) will compete in the women's mile run at the NCAA Division III Indoor Track & Field Championships, which are being held at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Ind.

Kulp was the 16th and final qualifier in the field, and is scheduled to compete on Friday at 4:00 p.m. in the first of two preliminary heats. The top three finishers in each heat and the next four fastest runners will advance to the finals on Saturday at 2:00 p.m.

Kulp qualified for nationals last Saturday at the Virginia Tech Last Chance Meet by breaking her own school record in the mile run with a time of 5:02.96. It is her first appearance at the Division III Indoor Track & Field Championships, after competing in the 1,500 meters at last spring's Division III Outdoor Championships and four times at the Division III Cross Country Championships.

She also maintains the Elizabethtown cross country and track & field program's streak of having at least one national championships participant in cross country, indoor track and outdoor track every year since 2002-03.

ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE WOMEN'S TRACK AND FIELD
Saturday, March 7, 2009

Elizabethtown at Virginia Tech Last Chance Meet

Senior Tiffany Kulp (Perkasie, PA/Pennridge) earned an NCAA Division III provisional qualifying time and broke her own school record in the mile run with a time of 5:02.06, finishing second overall. Her previous school record of 5:07.14 was set at Virginia Tech last season.

Senior Amanda Daws (Thorofare, NJ/West Deptford) won the 3,000 meters with a time of 10:43.07, the third-best mark in program history, with sophomore Kristen O'Brien (Westminster, MD/Winters Mill) in second place in 11:07.57.