W. Track sends four to ECAC championships

Coming off its shocking victory at the Heptagonal Championships last weekend, the Penn women's track team is looking to add to its collection of awards. This weekend four members of the championship squad will travel to Boston University to compete in the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference championship meet. The four Quakers who travel to Easterns hope to use the meet to qualify for the NCAA championship meet, to be held March 8-9 in Indianapolis, Ind. Penn junior multi-event star Angie Jiminez is the Quakers' best hope at qualifying. Jiminez is currently the No. 2-ranked pentathlete in the East. Sprinter junior Adria Ferguson will compete in the 500-meter dash at Easterns, and the Quakers will have two entrants in the 55-meter hurdle dash -- Nuru Hunter and Dawn McGee. But if any of the four athletes advance to the national meet, it will be somewhat of a surprise. At Easterns, Jiminez, Ferguson, Hunter and McGee will be facing many of the nation's top runners, jumpers and throwers, some of whom may even go on to qualify for the Olympic Games. "Easterns will give the girls an opportunity to compete against pretty stiff competition," Tenisci said. "At the moment, they are a little tired mentally and physically from Heps. But I am sure they will respond under the pressure." The four Quakers have already learned to ignore the naysayers. Heading into Heps, Penn coach Betty Costanza predicted a seventh-place finish in the nine-team field. But the entire team rallied together, with nearly every Quaker producing points, to win the Heps.