April 16, 2005
Columbia's track and field team won six events at the Met Championships despite bringing a small squad to the event. First-year Whitney Crayton broke the school record in 400m hurdles and sophomore Kent Collins won the men's 800m.
The Lions women's team took third place in the team competition despite taking only a handful of student-athletes to the event. Columbia won five events including two relays. First-year Whitney Crayton and sophomore Katy Schlichtman both broke the school record in the 400m hurdles for the second straight week. Crayton won the event with a time of 1:01.01 while Schlitchman finished just a tenth of a second behind.
The Lions took the top two in the women's 800m as well as first-year Kurstin Nelms and Sarah Decker paced the field. Nelms won at 2:11.24 while Decker took second at 2:11.52. Susan Hendrick continued the Lions' dominance over the middle distances by winning the women's 1500m. First-year Osamuede Iyoha added points in the sprints as she took third in the 100m hurdles and fifth in the 200m.
The women's team also won the 4X400m relay and the distance medley by over 13 seconds.
On the men's side, Kent Collins won the men's 800m with a time of 1:53.78 while fellow Lions Jonah Rathbun and Justin Fiske finished third and fourth in the race. Collins, who has been running well all season, finished nearly a second ahead of the second place finisher.
Columbia will compete at the Larry Ellis Invitational at Princeton next weekend.
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