MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – First-year Eve Giancarlo broke the Mammoths pole vault record and the Amherst College women's track and field team won the Middlebury Winterfell, finishing first in a field of 10 teams that included Division I Vermont on Saturday at Virtue Field House.
Giancarlo cleared 3.40m to break the record of 3.25m that classmate Jordan Hecker set a week ago and qualify for the New England Division III Championships. Hecker matched her mark of 3.25m and sophomore Mia Bawendi was just behind at 3.10m, also matching her New England qualifying mark from a week ago.
The Mammoths won eight events and scored 187 points, finishing ahead of second-place Vermont's 139 points.
MEET HIGHLIGHTS
* First-year Julia Zacher won the high jump, clearing 1.68m to best her mark from her collegiate debut last week. Zacher's mark is tied for the fourth-best in Division III so far this season. The top 20 marks at the end of the season qualify for the NCAA Division III Championships in each event.
* First-year Eliza Cardwell and sophomore Muffie Mazambani each qualified for New Englands in the triple jump. Cardwell jumped 10.69m in her first collegiate triple jump and Mazambani posted a 10.60m mark in her first indoor triple jump to match her outdoor personal best.
* Junior Sophia Wolmer led off the action on the track by winning the 5000m race with a time of 17:53.67, the 12th-best mark in Division III this season. Wolmer qualified for New Englands with that mark, as did classmate Mary Kate McGranahan, who finished third in 18:15.18. It was the first indoor collegiate 5000m race for both Mammoths.
* Cardwell posted a dominating performance in the 60m hurdles, winning her first collegiate race in the event in 8.99, nearly a second ahead of the second-place time (9.90). Cardwell's time is a New England qualifier and the 11th-best time in Division III this season.
* The Mammoths took the top two spots in the 400m as senior Anna Madden improved on her time last week to win the event in 59.66, the 14th-best time in Division III this season. First-year Casie Eifrig finished second and qualified for New Englands with a time of 59.77 in her first collegiate race in this event, the 18th-best time in Division III.
* Senior Katie Lingen won the 600m in 1:40.39 and first-year Ava Zielinski was second with a New England qualifying time of 1:41.58 in her first collegiate 600m race. Junior Ava Tillman also qualified for New Englands with her fourth-place time of 1:43.74.
* Junior Sierra Donovan ran a personal-best time of 2:29.24 to win the 800m race.
* First-year Julia Schor was the top Division III finisher in the 1000m, finishing second with a time of 3:02.71.
* First-year Sidnie Kulik posted the sixth-best Division III time this season in the 3000m, winning by 30 seconds with a time of 10:02.23.
* The Mammoths wrapped up the meet on the track with a win in the 4x400m relay. Madden, senior Juanita Jaramillo, Eifrig and Lingen teamed up to finish in 3:57.97, the fourth-best time in Division III this season.
