Sydney Packard of Georgetown, Mass., Honored as WPI Women's Student-Athlete of the Week

2018 Jan 25

Sydney Packard of the track & field team has been honored as the WPI Female Student-Athlete of the Week for the week ending Sunday, January 21st.

A week after posting what proved to be the second-ranked mile at the time, Packard posted a winning-time of 2:12.13 - 2:10.63 on a banked track - which is currently the atop the Division III performance list by nearly four seconds and is second in New England across all three divisions.

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