Three School Records Fall on Final Day of ECAC/IC4A Championship

Women's Results | Men's Results
 
It was an exciting final day at the 2015 ECAC/IC4A Indoor Track & Field Championship on Sunday at the BU Tennis & Track Center in Boston, as Fordham scored in all five event finals and set three school records.
 
Overall, Fordham finished tied for 15^th in the women's competition with 19 points, while the men were 26^th with 12 points.
 
The day began with the women's distance medley relay final, which saw Fordham's group of Mara Lieberman, Elise Tigani, Merissa Wright, and Brianna Tevnan score eighth overall in a season-best time of 11:56.50.
 
The next final for the Rams was the women's 500 meter run, which saw senior Titi Fagade go out with a bang in her final individual event.  Fagade captured the event title in a school record time of 1:12.23, breaking her previous mark of 1:12.58, set yesterday.
 
Then in the men's 1,000 meter final, senior Lester Taylor earned bronze, as he grabbed third place in a time of 2:27.50.  Jonathan Annelli just missed scoring as he took ninth in 2:31.65.
 
The next event final for Fordham was the men's distance medley relay, where Annelli and Taylor joined up with Ian Williams and Thomas Slattery to finish third overall in a school record time of 9:47.07.  It broke the previous mark of 9:47.3, set back in 1977 by John Daly, Ken Mitchell, Jim DiRienzo, and Gene McCarthy.
 
The last of the finals for the Rams was the women's 4x800 relay, where seniors Melissa Higgins, Kristen Stuart, and Fagade teamed with junior Danielle Rowe to take second place in a school record time of 8:45.02.  The previous record was 8:46.25, set by Fagade, Stuart, Higgins and Lieberman in 2013.