INDOOR TRACK WRAPS UP ITS SEASON ON A HIGH NOTE

By Christine Kloiber

The Regis College Indoor Track & Field team completed its season this past weekend with several athletes racking up big performances.
 
Having graduated 5 seniors the previous two years, the 2009-2010 team was full of new and young faces, none of whom wasted anytime picking up where their predecessors left off.  Three athletes embodied this most of all, and led the highlights in this past weekend’s final meet of the season, just as they had throughout the entire season.
 
Junior Schallum Dorleans (Dorchester, MA) set another personal best in the 55-meter dash, speeding just a hair over 7 seconds, and inking a new record in Regis’ record book. Dorleans earned several other honors this year, becoming Regis’ first male captain of the track & field teams, as well as earning the team’s Most Improved Award.
 
A fellow teammate joined Dorleans in the men’s inaugural varsity year with a successful season;  freshman Brad Hastings (Mansfield, MA). Hastings, already owning the high jump and 400-meter dash records, closed the season by running his track specialty, the 200-meter dash. Winning his heat, he sped to a 23.48s performance, setting a new personal best, and coming within 4 hundredths of a second of qualifying for the men’s Division III New England Indoor Track & Field Championships. (video of the race is here: http://www.flotrack.org/videos/coverage/view_video/236483/298413)
 
Perhaps the female with the fleetest feet this season, the final meet proved another opportunity to set a fast time for freshman Bethany Frye (Adams, MA). Frye already owned the 4th fastest 800-meter time every run by a woman at Regis, and fixed her eyes next on the 600-meter run for the final meet of the year. Having never run the race before, Frye used her speed and stamina to run a 1:47.44 performance, ranking 2nd in the all-time Regis performance list, finishing a close third in her heat, and missing qualifying for the Division III New England Indoor Track & Field Championships by 1.5seconds.
 
Even though only freshman, both Frye and Hastings’ seasons have earned them the Coach’s Award for the 2009-2010 Indoor Track & Field Team.
 
 
The Track & Field Teams will now rest up, regroup, and refit as it prepares for the outdoor season.  The first meet of the year will take place March 20th at the Husky Snowflake Invite (Dedham, MA).