The Moravian College women's track & field team, under the direction of head coach Doug Pollard, finished second of ten teams scoring points at the three-day 2007 Middle Atlantic Conference Championships hosted by Elizabethtown College. The Greyhounds scored 166.5 points while Messiah College won the title with 200 points. Moravian also sent five competitors the 2007 NCAA Division III Outdoor National Championships hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh.

On the first day of the NCAA Championships, Moravian’s 4x100-meter relay team, composed of seniors Erin Recker (Catasauqua, PA/Catasauqua HS) and Amy Reehil (Roselle, NJ/Roselle Catholic HS), and freshmen Dana Haslett (Sellersville, PA/Pennridge HS) and Rachel Beck (Churchville, PA/Council Rock South HS), finished fourth in their heat and 13th of 16 teams in a time of 48.20 seconds.

On the second day, Recker competed in the 100-meter dash and placed fifth in her heat and 15th of 19 runners in a time of 12.47 seconds. Freshman Anna Heim (Moorestown, NJ/Moorestown HS) was unable to record a height in the pole vault in her first outdoor championship competition.

Moravian had four individual champions on the final day of the MAC Championships. Recker won the 100-meter dash in a school record time of 12.17 seconds and the 200-meter dash in an NCAA Division III provisional qualifying time of 25.13 seconds. Reehil was first in the 400-meter dash in 59.09 seconds while freshman Flora Robertson (Hawley, PA/East Stroudsburg North HS) won the hammer throw with a toss of 40.98 meters (134 feet, 5 3/4 inches).

The Greyhounds also came away with a first place finish in the relay. Recker and Reehil teamed up with Haslett and Beck to win the 4x100-meter relay in a meet record and time of 48.20 seconds. Haslett finished second in the 100-meter dash in 12.38 seconds and second in the 200-meter dash in a time of 25.31 seconds, while Beck took third in the 100-meter dash in 12.73 seconds and fourth in the 200-meters dash in 26.19 seconds. Reehil finished fourth in the 100-meter dash in a time of 12.80 seconds and third in the 200-meter dash in 25.78 seconds as well.

Senior Suzanne Tamlyn (Wappingers Falls, NY/Wallkill HS) placed seventh in both the 100-meter dash in 13.05 seconds and the 200-meter dash in 26.94 seconds, while freshman Jessica Posimo (Philadelphia, PA/St. Basil Academy) finished third in the 100-meter hurdles in 15.66 seconds. Heim took fourth place in the 400-meter hurdles in 1:07.60, while junior Katie Pulizzano (Allentown, PA/William Allen HS) took a 15th place finish in the 5,000-meter run in a time of 19:57.76, and sophomore Kelly Williams (Tafton, PA/Wallenpaupack HS) with a 16th place showing in the 1,500-meter run in 5:21.60. Sophomore Naomie Kachel (Shillington, PA/Governor Mifflin HS) finished 12th in the 3000-meter steeplechase with a time of 13:28.27.

Freshman Rebeka Woolley (Point Pleasant, NJ/Point Pleasant Boro HS) placed second in the javelin throw with a toss of 38.28 meters (125 feet, 7 1/4 inches) while Robertson finished tenth at 33.08 meters (108 feet, 6 3/4 inches), and freshman Aliina Ross (Paoli, PA/Conestoga HS) took 12th with a distance of 30.18 meters (99 feet, 1/2 inch). Senior Tammy Balliet (Whitehall, PA/Whitehall HS) was tenth in the hammer throw with a toss of 34.28 meters (112 feet, six inches).

Posimo was second in the long jump with a leap of 5.16 meters (16 feet, 11 1/4 inches) while senior Kathleen McCarron (Nazareth, PA/Nazareth HS) jumped the same distance but came in third due to the number of jumps she had taken. Freshman Rachel Riggs (Gettysburg, PA/Gettysburg HS) was eighth in the long jump at 4.96 meters (16 feet, 3 1/4 inches) while Heim placed 15th at 4.72 meters (15 feet, six inches) and freshman Cassidy Thomas (Arnold, MD/Broadneck HS) was 20th with a leap of 4.22 meters (13 feet, 10 1/4 inches).

Tamlyn, Balliet, Kachel, Reehil, Recker, Williams, and senior Jennifer Connolly (Weare, NH/Manchester West HS) were all named to the 2007 Middle Atlantic States Collegiate Athletic Corporation Spring Academic Honor Roll.

Coach Pollard looks to open competition in the new Landmark Conference with a championship in 2008 and is returning most of his team losing only six seniors to graduation.

Review written by Nick Pepi '10.