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Volume CXXXII, Number 9 |
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Women on the inside track!
GRACE CHO
STAFF WRITER
As the weather begins to chill and students begin to bundle up, the athletes of Bowdoin Women's Indoor Track and Field Team strip off their layers and head to the field house. As the 2002-2003 winter indoor season gets under way, the lady Polar Bears are geared up for another exciting season of great races, broken records, and team wins.
"The women's team has all the right ingredients to be one of the top teams in New England," said senior co-captain Acadia Senese.
The right ingredients indeed! Key returning members of the indoor team include nationals qualifier in the 300 meter hurdles, Julia Febiger '03, pentathletes Cait Fowkes '03 and Allison Cherry '04, jumper Acadia Senese '03, pole vaulter Anne Barmettler '03, and runners Libby Barney '03, Lynne Davies '04', Ellen Beth '05, Audra Caler '05, Katie Landry '05, and Marybeth Sexton '05.
Though the women will not be returning several core athletes who are studying away this year, they will regain some numbers through the senior and first-year classes. Four key athletes missing last season (Sarah Bodner, Kate Brinkerhoff, Bre McKenna, and Liz Wendell) will be back as seniors this season and will play integral roles as leaders and point scorers for the team.
"We are happy to have the seniors back who studied away last semester," said senior co-captain Cait Fowkes.
The experience of returning upperclassmen members will be needed for the many first years entering into their first indoor season. The women's team has 46 athletes on the roster, and many are new faces. But, Senese has already noticed that there are "many promising first years who have joined the squad full-forced."
One promising freshman in particular is Emily Hackert. Speaking on Hackert, Fowkes said, "Emily is a great edition to the team. She will definitely be a force in the jumping events and pentathlon."
With the returning members and the fantastic new athletes entering this season, Senese predicted, "The women's track team is on the road to excellence once again and is poised to do great things this year."
The first meet of the season is the Bates Pentathlon in December.