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Laura Pumphrey
  • biomedical engineering
  • Class of 2015
  • East Hampton, Conn.

Laura Pumphrey of East Hampton, Conn., Earns NCAA Division III All-New England Track and Field Honors

2015 May 6

Laura Pumphrey was one of 24 WPI Track and Field student-athletes to finish in the top eight at the Division III New England Championships this past Saturday at MIT.

Laura Pumphrey, Sara Velleca, Liz Pellegrini, Alex Price and Maya Rhinehart all struck gold as the WPI Women's Track and Field team finished a program-best fourth at the NCAA event.

The top eight finishers in each event earn All-New England honors.

Pumphrey, who cleared 5-6.5, won her second D-III New England high jump title in three years. Fellow All-American Julie Eagle helped keep the WPI streak alive by claiming the crown last year. Velleca, Pellegrini, Price and Rhinehart teamed up to take the 4x100-meter relay in a time of 48.05.

The 4x400 quartet of Velleca, Rhinehart, Pellegrini & Lea Strangio came home fifth (3:58.20).

Velleca was the runner up in the 200-meter dash (25.12) as Rhinehart was eighth (25.78). Pellegrini boasted a season-best time of 1:02.54 in the 400-meter hurdles

Kelsey Leigher came home fourth in the discus (127) while Brittney Lambert tied for sixth in the high jump with a clearance of 5-2.5. Lauren Richard added valuable points with a seventh-place leap of 37-1.75 in the triple jump.

Andrew Zayac won the steeplechase and was on one of the two relays that set a new school record for the men's team.

Zayac used a personal-best time of 9:25.42 to strike gold in the steeplechase and also teamed with Ryan Moran, Austin Scott and Thomas Kostelak to finish second in the 4x800-meter relay with a school-record time of 7:48.96. Joey Collins, Ryan Dennis, Paul-Henry Schoenhagen and Warren Staver teamed up to break the 4x400-meter relay school record in a third-place time of 3:18.28.

Scott also turned in a personal-best time of 3:56 in the 1,500-meter run while Staver achieved a PR of 49.18 in the 400-meter dash.Brandon Hoghaug cleared 6-4 to tie for third place in the high jump.

The 4x100-meter relay team of Brian D'Amore, Austin Holliday, Jacob Mercier and Hugh Whelan came home sixth in a time of 43.98.

Nick Dalton finished sixth in the decathlon, which ran all three days, with a personal-best score of 5,632. In addition to also achieving PRs in the shot put (34-9.75) and pole vault (10-10), Dalton won the 100-meter dash (11.46) and javelin (152-11.25).Nate Martel rounded out the scorers with a seventh-place throw of 167-5 in the hammer.

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