Asare Runner-up in LJ, Keenan 4th in 5000m at NEICAAA Indoor Championships

BOSTON, Mass. – Wellesley College track & field took down a pair of indoor school records while competing at the 2016 NEICAAA New England Indoor Track & Field Championships at Boston University's Track & Tennis Center. 

The Blue are currently in fourth place with 15 points, despite competing in just four events on the opening night of the cross-divisional open championship. Wellesley trails Division I institutions: Northeastern (58 points), Rhode Island (34) and Maine (18), while leading MIT by a half point.

Sophomore Abena Asare (Berlin, N.J.) jumped to a second place finish in the Long Jump, as the 2016 New England DIII Champion finished second in the event with a new school indoor record leap of 5.76m. Asare's jump moves her into 5th in all of Division III in the Long Jump. 

The second school record of the evening belonged to junior Mary Keenan (Boerne, Texas). Keenan took down Taylor Bickford's school record of 17:33.92 with a time of 17:28.56 in the 5000m. Keenan's time earned her fourth in the event. She has now run two of three fastest 5000m times in school history in the last week, after recording a time of 17:41.89 at last weekend's DIII Indoor Championships.

Also competing for the Blue, junior Isabella Narvaez (Cali, Colombia) took 25th in the 400m prelims with a time of 58.06.

Narvaez then teamed up with seniors Sharon Ng (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Priyanka Fouda (Wellesley, Mass.) and junior Sonja Cwik (La Cañada, Calif.) to take seventh in the Distance Medley Relay. Ng took down the opening 1200m in 3:34.8. She was followed by Narvaez with an improved time of 57.6 from in the 400m. Cwik completed the 800m third leg in 2:19.0, before Fouda capped the race with a time of 5:13.0 in the 1600m.

The Blue head back to BU for day two of the NEICAAA Indoor Championships tomorrow, with Ng set to compete in the Mile.