First Meet of Indoor Season at BU Awaits the Eagles

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – The Boston College women's track and field team will begin its 2018-19 season this weekend when it competes in the Boston University Sharon Colyear-Danville Season Opener on Saturday, Dec. 1.

In last year's season-opening meet at BU, 10 Eagles hit qualifying marks for the New England Championships in their individual events.

Senior Paige Duca finished the 3000-meter run in seventh place with a time of 9:32.14 while classmate Alison Burns also crossed the line in the top 10, placing ninth in 10:08.81. Colleen Sliney finished in 10:14.23 to qualify as well. Gianna Bender was sixth in the 800 while Emily Criscuolo was seventh. In field events, junior Julia Lyons finished fourth in the long jump with a leap of 5.64 meters while Elizabeth Knoll took fifth in the high jump after clearing 1.65 meters.

A list of entries will be available here later in the week. FloTrack.org will be providing live coverage of the meet. Live results will be available via LancerTiming, here.

The meet was traditionally named the BU Season Opener until BU announced earlier this year that it would be named in honor of BU's track and field All-American, Sharon Colyear-Danville.

Tentative Time Schedule (Women followed by men)

Track Events                                     Field Events
11:00 a.m. – 60m Hurdle Trials          11:00am – High Jump
11:15 a.m. – 1 mile                                                Shot Put
11:35 a.m. – 60m Trials                                        Pole Vault
11:50 a.m. – 400m                                                Long Jump
12:20 p.m. – 60m Hurdle Finals                           Weight Throw (following men's shot put)
12:25 p.m. – 600m                                               Triple Jump (following men's long jump)
12:55 p.m. – 60m Finals
1:00 p.m. – 800m
1:15 p.m. – 200m
1:50 p.m. – 300m
2:45 p.m. – 1000m
3:00 p.m. – 3000m
4:05 p.m. – 4x400m relay
4:40 pm. – 5000m

First Meet of Indoor Season at BU Awaits the Eagles

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Players Mentioned

Gianna Bender

Alison Burns

Emily Criscuolo

Paige Duca

Elizabeth Knoll

Julia Lyons

Colleen Sliney