FREDERICK, Md. - The Hood College women's track and field team heads to Messiah to compete in the Middle Atlantic Conference Championships on April 30-May 2.
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SCOUTING HOOD
The action gets underway on Thursday with the first half of the heptathlon, the 10,000-meter run and the 4x800-meter relay. Hood will have four student-athletes in the heptathlon. Jackie Mangogna (Kings Park, N.Y. / Kings Park) ranks third in the MAC after a score of 3,395 points at the Mount Multis earlier this year. Mariah Purtee (Libertytown, Md. / Linganore) is fifth, Karina Stetsyuk (Frederick, Md. / Gov. Thomas Johnson) seventh and Andrea Christmas (Germantown, Md. / Northwest) is tied for eighth.
Heather Silveira (Baltimore, Md. / Chesapeake) ranks first in the MAC by nearly two-tenths of a second in the 100-meter hurdles with a school record time of 15.74. She ranks second in the 400 hurdles at 1:07.34, less than two-tenths off the pace. The senior picked up the triple jump this spring and ranks eighth in the MAC with a mark of 33-6 3/4 (10.23m).
In the 800, Alexandra Dystant (Odenton, Md. / Arundel) season-best of 2:23.38 rates eighth in the conference.
Samantha Bailey (Shelton, Conn. / Shelton) is in the top 10 in the MAC in both the shot put and discus. Her shot put mark of 36-7 1/2 (11.16m) is seventh in the league, while her best toss of the discus is 10th at 100-9 (30.70m).
Mangogna will compete in the long jump in addition to the heptathlon. The freshman's best leap this year is 16-3 (4.95m), good for a tie for eighth in the conference heading into the championships.
Joining Silveira in the 100 hurdles will be Jill Heymann (Hackettstown, N.J. / Warren Hills), who is rated ninth in the MAC at 17.03.
Hood's 4x400 relay time of 4:41.40 ranks eighth in the MAC.
LAST TIME OUT
Silveira broke the school record in both hurdle events to lead the Blazers at Gettysburg College's Mason-Dixon Invitational. She finished third in both the 100-meter hurdles and the 400-meter hurdles. The senior ran a converted 15.74 in the 100 hurdles, to eclipse her own school record from last year's Mason-Dixon Invite. Her time qualifies for the ECAC Outdoor Championships in May. In the 400 hurdles, Silveira turned in a converted 1:07.34, faster than her two-year old mark in the event. Dystant took second in the 1500-meter run and fourth in the 800-meter run. In the 1500, she ran a converted 5:25.64 to place second. Her 800 finished in a converted 2:23.74, good for fourth. The Blazers' 4x100-meter relay team finished fourth in 52.78. In the shot put, Bailey took seventh with a toss of 34-2 1/4 (10.42m). Stetsyuk captured sixth in the javelin with a mark of 87-11 (26.80m). Heymann claimed eighth in the 100 hurdles with her converted time of 17:04.
LAST YEAR AT THE MAC CHAMPIONSHIPS
Hood finished seventh at the 2014 championships. Alyssa Peterson was second in the steeplechase with a time of 12:06.86. Sophie Grizzle was the runner up in the heptathlon with 3,697 points. Dystant set the school record in the 800 in both the preliminaries and finals (2:19.79). She also ran on a record setting 4x400 (4:01.88) with Grizzle, Silveira and Chelsea Young.
