2006 Indoor Season Review

The Moravian College women's indoor track & field team had its string of ten straight conference championships come to an end as the Greyhounds placed fourth of ten schools at the 2006 Middle Atlantic Conference Indoor Championships hosted by Susquehanna University. The Greyhounds scored 71 points while Elizabethtown College won its first indoor title with 130 points. Moravian had three individual champions with junior Erin Recker (Catasauqua, PA/Catasauqua HS) capturing first in both the 55-meter dash, in an NCAA Division III provisional qualifying time of 7.31 seconds, and the 200-meter dash in 26.54 seconds, and junior Kathleen McCarron (Nazareth, PA/Nazareth HS) winning the long jump at 5.07 meters (16 feet, 7 3/4 inches).

McCarron was fifth in the 55-meter dash in 7.83 seconds and 14th in the 200-meter dash at 28.95 seconds, while junior Suzanne Tamlyn (Wappingers Falls, NY/Wallkill HS) placed sixth in the 55-meter dash in 7.85 seconds and sixth in the 200-meter dash in 27.49 seconds. Both McCarron and Tamlyn recorded faster times in the preliminaries of the 55-meter dash with Tamlyn fourth after the first run at 7.63 seconds and McCarron sixth at 7.71 seconds. Tamlyn also placed sixth in the 400-meter dash in a time of 1:00.57 while junior Amy Reehil (Roselle, NJ/Roselle Catholic HS) was seven in the race at 1:02.52. Sophomore Theresa Zataveski (Quakertown, PA/Gwynedd Mercy Academy HS) finished seventh in the 55-meter hurdles in 9.56 seconds.

In the distance races, sophomore Christina Roccamo (Quakertown, PA/Quakertown HS) was fifth in the 800-meter run in a time of 2:33.34. Freshman Naomie Kachel (Shillington, PA/Governor Mifflin HS) was seventh in the mile run at 5:52.50 while junior Jennifer Connolly (Weare, NH/Manchester West HS) placed ninth in 5:57.89 and freshman Kelly Williams (Tafton, PA/Wallenpaupack HS) was 11th in 6:01.10.

Moravian's 4x200-meter relay team of Recker, McCarron, Reehil and Tamlyn took second in a time of 1:48.50 while the 4x400-meter relay squad of Reehil, Tamlyn, Roccamo and senior Rebecca Moore (Easton, PA/Easton HS) placed third in 4:13.72. The 4,000-meter distance relay squad of Moore, Roccamo, senior Alexis Vergalla (Glen Gardner, NJ/Voorhees HS) and freshman Stephanie Miller (Easton, PA/Easton HS) took third place in a time of 13:26.31 while the 4x800-meter relay team of Roccamo, Vergalla, Kachel and Miller was fifth in 10:52.26.

In other field events, McCarron placed fourth in the triple jump with a distance of 10.14 meters (33 feet, 3 1/4 inches) while Zataveski was ninth in the long jump with a leap of 4.53 meters (14 feet, 10 1/2 inches). Junior Tammy Balliet (Whitehall, PA/Whitehall HS) placed third in the shot put with a toss of 11.28 meters (37 feet, 1/4 inches), and she took fifth in the 20-pound weight throw with a distance of 11.25 meters (36 feet, 11 inches).

Vergalla, Moore, Recker, Tamlyn, Balliet, Reehil, Connolly, Roccamo, Zataveski, senior Lauren Bahnatka (West Chester, PA/Henderson HS) and junior Ashley McCuen (Horsham, PA/Hatboro-Horsham HS) were all named to the Middle Atlantic States Collegiate Athletic Corporation Winter Academic Honor Roll.