Mara, Morrison Lead 'Cats Into Saturday's Home Opener

Rachel Morrison and the high jumpers lead UNH into Saturday's home meet.

4/7/2017 5:26:00 PM | Women's Track & Field

DURHAM, N.H. – A high jump crew paced by senior Jeannette Mara (Bedford, N.H.) and junior Rachel Morrison (Westwood, Mass.) leads the University of New Hampshire women's outdoor track & field team into its first home meet of the season Saturday at the Reggie Atkins Track & Field Facility in Wildcat Stadium.

The Wildcats will compete against Maine, UMass Lowell, Holy Cross and Brown.

Mara matched her career-best mark of 5 feet, 7 inches to finish fifth in the high jump at the 52^nd Colonial Relays last weekend. Morrison was 13^th.

Field events will begin at 11 a.m. Saturday and running events start at 1 p.m.

UP NEXT

The Wildcat men's and women's outdoor teams will host the Wildcat Invitational on Saturday, April 8 on its Reggie Atkins Track & Field facility.
Maine, UMass Lowell, Holy Cross and Brown will compete against UNH on Saturday.
The Wildcats will host Wildcat Invitational II on Saturday, April 15 against Maine, Merrimack and Bates.
UNH will also host the America East outdoor track & field championships on May 6 and 7.

LAST TIME OUT

The 4x1,500-meter relay group of senior Sarah Keiran (Rowley, Mass.), sophomore Shannon Murdock (Exeter, N.H.), junior Danielle Gajewski (Danville, N.H.) and junior Elinor Purrier (Montgomery, Vt.) set a school record in winning the event in the 52^nd Colonial Relays last weekend at the College of William & Mary. They finished the race in 18 minutes, 19.46 seconds to secure first place in the event, 30 seconds ahead of second place.

The Wildcats split up and competed in the Colonial Relays and at a meet in Maine last weekend. Among the other top results last weekend:

Purrier won the 1,500 and broke her own school record with a time of 4:14.48.
Purrier ran the anchor leg of a 4x1,500 winning relay effort that set a school record with time of the 18:19.46.
Murdock finished second in the 3K in 9:40.18.
Junior Angelyn Masters (Bangor, Maine) was 21^st in the 3K.
Junior Emma Checovich (No. Hampton, N.H. was 11^th in the 100 hurdles.
Gajewski was 11^th in the 800.
Senior Sarah Keiran (Rowley, Mass.) was 11^th in the steeplechase.
Senior Alex Giese (Franklin, Mass.) was 11^th in the steeple.
At Maine, sophomore Grace Slevin (Bozeman, Mont.) won the pole vault at 12 feet.
Junior Carly Orlacchio (Cromwell, Conn.) was second in the javelin.
Freshman Alyssa Colbert (Smithfield, R.I.) was third in the javelin.
Senior Cassie Kruse (Hampshire, Ill.) won the 1,500.
Senior Katherine Estep (Plaistow, N.H.) won the 5,000.
Emileigh Glode (Boxborough, Mass.) won the 400 meter hurdles.
Junior Tessa Artruc (Livonia, N.Y.) won the high jump.

COACHES' COMMENTS

"Our high jumpers are having a great season, starting with the indoor season and now leading into the outdoors."

Coach Casey Carroll

"We're building into the season and looking forward to hosting the America East Championships on our track. It's good to get out on the facility and we're glad to have it available. We give a tip of the hat to Dave Smith and his crew for cleaning the snowbanks off the track so we can have this meet. We're very grateful for that. The snowbanks were about eight feet high a week ago and now we're ready to go."

Coach Robert Hoppler