Eloise Miller ’15 (pictured) shattered the Grinnell College school record en route to earning a victory in the women’s triple jump at the Cornell College Hilltop Open this weekend.
Miller had a winning leap of 35-5, breaking the previous Pioneer best of 33-9 ½ by Maria Stanislaw in 2001.
Grinnell had one other winner, Hannah Colter ’12 in the 3000-meter run. She had a time of 10:57.67. Also faring well in the 3000 were Cassidy...
A trio of event victories led the way for the Grinnell College women at the Dutch Athletics Classic indoor track and field meet Friday in Pella.
Catherine Bisignano ’13 won the mile run in 5:42.81, Stephanie Rouse ’13 was first in the 3000 in 10:46.03 and Jordan Young ’14 took first in the shot put with a toss of 35-3 ¾.
Rouse’s time moved her to ninth on the Pioneers’ all-time chart.
Also in the 3000, Diana Seer ’15...
Longtime Grinnell coach Will Freeman has been elected chairman of the NCAA Division III Track and Field/Cross Country Committee by a vote of NCAA committee members.
A member of the NCAA committee for the past three years, Freeman has been the liaison for cross country and indoor track and also the D-III representative to the NCAA rules committee.
It is Freeman’s second national chair position, having previously been the chair of...
The Grinnell College men’s and women’s track and field squads were named 2011 NCAA Division III All-Academic Teams by the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.
Sixty-four men’s programs and 111 women’s teams earned the honor, which is given to squads with a cumulative grade point average of 3.1 or higher.
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Grinnell College’s Jacqui Vautin ’13 (pictured) and Lake Forest College’s Chris Paterakos have been named the 2011 Midwest Conference Female and Male Sportsmanship Award winners, respectively, as announced by the league office.
Selected by the Midwest Conference Awards and Recognition Committee, the MWC Sportsmanship Awards honor the top female and male...
Sarah Burnell ’14 (left), Isabelle Miller ’13 and Christine Ajinjeru ’14 (right) all earned second-place finishes for Grinnell College Saturday as the Pioneers finished third as a team at the 2011 Midwest Conference Track and Field Championships in Monmouth, Ill.
The team finish is a significant step up from last year’s eighth-place finish.
Burnell was runner-up in the 800-meter run in 2:15.10, Ajinjeru claimed second in the 400...
Sarah Burnell ’14 and Maja Gamble ’11 (pictured) paced the Grinnell College women’s track and field team on the opening day of the 2011 Midwest Conference Championships Friday at Monmouth, Ill.
Burnell claimed runner-up honors in the 1500-meter run, while Gamble finished second in the 10,000.
Burnell ran the 1500 in 4:43.90 and finished just two-hundredths of a second behind the winner. Burnell’s time ranks third in Pioneer...
The Grinnell College track and field team will compete at the 2011 Midwest Conference Championships Friday and Saturday in Monmouth, Ill.
Alex Reich ’11 is ranked first in the league in both the men’s 5000- and 10,000-meter runs, while Isabelle Miller ’13 is tops in the women’s 400 hurdles.
Shyam Deshpande ’11 is ranked in the top five in three events, as he’s second in the men’s 5000, third in the 3000 steeplechase and fifth in...
Leah Russell ’11 (pictured) claimed runner-up honors in the 800-meter run to lead the Grinnell College women’s track and field team Saturday at the Monmouth College Fighting Scot Invitational.
She ran the race in 2:22.93 en route to beating all but one runner in the 27-woman field.
Also at the meet, a trio of Pioneer women improved their standing on the program’s all-time chart.
Sachi Graber ’12 remained sixth on the pole...
A pair of top five finishes led the way for the Grinnell College women’s track and field team at the Kip Janvrin Open Friday in Indianola.
The school-record holding 4x400-meter relay team of Elena Gartner ’14, Christine Ajinjeru ’14, Sarah Burnell ’14 and Isabelle Miller ’13 took second place in a time of 4:11.22.
Miller (pictured) also captured fifth in the 400 dash in 59.93, a time that ranks fourth on Grinnell’s all-time...
