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Emily Cousens Defends UAA Title, NYU 4x400 Team Breaks Record

Emily Cousens Defends UAA Title, NYU 4x400 Team Breaks Record
Posted: Apr 27, 2014

From NYU Athletics

The New York University women's track and field team finished fourth out of seven teams at the University Athletic Association (UAA) Outdoor Championships, hosted by the University of Chicago on Saturday and Sunday, April 26-27, in Chicago, IL.

NYU scored a total of 79 points and improved on last year's result by one position. The victory went to the host Maroons with 210.75 points.

Senior co-captain Emily Cousens sucessfully defended her UAA title in the 1,500m. It was her first time running the 1,500m this outdoor season. She posted a time of 4:39.07, winning the race by more than two seconds. 

The 4x400m squad was fighting for the first place with Chicago, until the last few meters of the race. The foursome of sophomoreLydia Guo, junior Caroline Spring, sophomores Sarah Sisk and Drew Washington eventually placed second with a new program-record time of 3:54.32, which shattered the old mark set in 2004 by more than three seconds.

"We had a great all-around team effort, especially in the middle distance events," said Head Coach Nick McDonough. "Aside from Emily's success, our team was very young but still scored really well."

Highlights:

- After yesterday's fifth-place finish in the shot put, freshman Jillian Edwards took fourth in the discus throw. In her best attempt she sent the implement 34.56m, improving her personal-best by more than three meters. In the javelin throw, Edwards also set a personal-best (30.30m) to take fifth.

- Three Violets scored in the 400m. Washington led the way by placing fourth with a time of 59.45. Guo (59.69) and Spring (59.89) were right behind Washington, placing fifth and sixth, respectively.

- There were three NYU sophomore runners in the 800m final -- Becky Turlip, Anna Stassen and Sisk. Sisk led the way with a second-place finish, clocking 2:17.44. Stassen came in fourth place with a time of 2:18.54. Turlip rounded out the Violet trio with a srventh-place time of 2:22.43.

- Sophomore Rebecca Shimonov was seventh in the 100m hurdles final with a time of 16.76.

"The weather conditions were not optimal all weekend," said McDonough. "Despite the unconducive weather, everyone still competed very hard."