BOSTON, MA - The University at Buffalo participated at the ECAC/IC4A Indoor Track and Field Championships at Boston's Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center. The meet concluded Sunday with the UB women finishing 15th among 48 scoring schools with 19 points in the ECAC Championships.

Faith Thompson

UB's women were paced by junior Faith Thompson (Niagara Falls, NY/Niagara Falls) with a pair of school records and an NCAA provisional qualifying mark. Thompson finished second in the 20-pound weight throw with a toss of 60-8.75 (18.51m). The throw broke her week-old mark, set at the MAC Championships, by four and a quarter inches and provisionally qualified her for next week's NCAA Indoor Championships in Fayetteville, AR. Thompson also took seventh in the shot put at 45-2.25 (13.77m), bettering her previous record by three and a half inches.

Biaunca McFarland (Binghamton, NY/Binghamton) finished second in the triple jump at 41-0.25 (12.50m) and anchored UB's record-setting 4x400 relay team which placed 10th in the preliminaries in 3:48.40 to break the mark set last week at the MAC meet by more than a second. Jennelle Callendar (Brooklyn, NY/Brooklyn Tech), Christina Keck (Erie, PA/McDowell) and Krystal Seiling (Lewiston, NY/Lewiston-Porter) preceeded McFarland with the baton. Keck also broke her own school record in the mile with her preliminary time of 4:51.00 to place fourth. She shaved four seconds off the previous best.

Other highlights for the UB women included Laura Olson (Lyons, NY/Lyons) taking eighth in the pole vault at 11-11.75 (3.65m). Allison Laske (Canandaigua, NY/Canandaigua Academy) placed 16th in the 800-meter run in 2:15.02. The distance medley relay team of Laske, Seiling, Callender and Kate Kohout (Clarence, NY/Clarence) was 15th in 12:41.91.