IC4A and ECAC Indoor Track and Field Championships Get Underway
By Karl Hunt
Day 1 Results | Live Results
BOSTON, Mass. – Day one of the 2022 Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America and the Eastern College Athletic Conference Division I Indoor Track and Field Championship got underway at Boston University.
The first day featured competition in the multis with the completion of the women’s pentathlon and four events in the men’s heptathlon.
Dominique Biron from Northeastern won the pentathlon with a total of 4,068 points. Fellow teammates Emily Lavarnway and Kennedee Cox took second and fourth, respectively, and Maine’s Katherine Cowan finished second.
Biron placed first in the 60-meter hurdles (8.87 ), the high jump (1.70 meters), and the long jump (5.97 meters). She also took third in the shot put with a mark of 11.37 meters and in the 800-meters with a time of 2:20.45.
In her second-place performance, Lavarney also finished first in the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 8.87 seconds and had a mark of 11.97 meters in the shot put to finish at the top of that event.
Alyssa Elliot from UCONN finished in first place in the 800-meters with a time of 2:14.88.
Benjamin Groose from UCONN currently leads the heptathlon with 3,044 points. Groose finished in first place in three of the four events. In the 60-meters, Groose ran a time of 7.62. He also had top marks of 13.74-meters in the shot put and 1.98-meters in the high jump.
Maine’s Zachary Beaton is currently sitting in second place in the heptathlon with 2,734 points and had a first-place finish in the long jump with a mark of 6.83-meters.
Brian Genet from New Hampshire is currently third-place in the heptathlon with 2,678 points.
The IC4A/ECAC Indoor Track and Field Championship will get underway on Saturday at 10 a.m. ET with the conclusion of the men’s heptathlon, women’s high jump, women’s long jump, and the women’s weight throw.