FIGHTING TIGER WOMEN'S TRACK & FIELD TIES FOR 27TH AT 2010 ECAC OUTDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS

The SUNY Cobleskill women's track & field team posted a score of 10 points to place in a four-way tie for twenty-seventh place in a field of 67 teams at the 2010 Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Division III Outdoor Track & Field Championships hosted by Springfield College in Springfield, MA on Thursday May 13^th and Friday May 14^th.  The event was the team's last of the 2010 season.

Fighting Tiger sophomore jumper Shorna Brown, Kingston, NY, Kingston High School captured the women's High Jump individual title at the meet by clearing a height of 5'6 ¾" to win the title in a jump-off. Brown becomes the program's first individual women's outdoor ECAC Champion and the first women's track & field athlete to win ECAC indoor and outdoor event championships. The talented jumper also captured the 2010 ECAC Indoor High Jump Championship.

Also competing for Cobleskill at the event were: junior Meghan LaPoint, Schenectady, NY, Colonie High School, who placed eleventh in the 5000 Meters in 18:34.69 and twelfth in the 10,000 Meters in a time of 38:37.37, junior Nichole Soblosky, Schenectady, NY, Colonie High School, who placed fourteenth in the 3000 Meter Steeplechase in 11:35.41, freshman Aubrey Oates, Rochester, NY, East High School, who finished seventeenth in the Triple Jump with a mark of 34'9 ½" and sophomore Abigail Vanderveen, Delanson, NY, Faith Bible Academy, who placed seventeenth in the 400 Meters in 1:00.62.