THE BASICS:
 
- Location: Springfield College Field House (Springfield, Mass.)
 
- The Lead: On Saturday afternoon, the No. 6 ranked MIT women's track and field team competed at the Springfield College Triangle Classic as the Engineers posted nine top-10 finishes and one event victory.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED:
 
- First-year Hailey Surace (Snohomish, Wash.) finished second in the pole vault and is now ranked ninth in the country as she cleared a personal-best height of 12 feet, 5.5 inches. First-year Katelyn Howard (Lake Oswego, Ore.) finished 11th at nine feet, 10 inches, along with junior Savannah Gordon (El Cajon, Calif.) in 14th place after clearing eight feet, 10.25 inches.
 
- Sophomore Emily Ball (Des Moines, Iowa) picked up the victory in the weight throw with a toss of 50 feet, 0.75 inches to go along with a runner-up finish in the shot put at 39 feet, three inches. First-year Lilia Ould-Hammou (Metuchen, N.J.) was sixth in the weight throw with a toss of 44 feet, 1.5 inches and 14th in the shot put at 30 feet, 2.75 inches. Both marks are personal-bests.
 
- Junior Emma Martin (North Andover, Mass.) finished second in the long jump with a leap of 17 feet, 2.25 inches, while senior Laena Tieng (Kent, Wash.) was sixth at 16 feet, five inches.
 
- First-year Katie Kempff (St. Charles, Ill.) placed third in the high jump with a height of five feet, 1.25 inches. Sophomore Maura Kelleher (Los Altos, Calif.) finished 13th in the event after clearing four feet, 7.5 inches. On the track, sophomore Olivia Dias (East Taunton, Mass.) finished fifth in the 600 in 1:42.22, along with senior Emmeline MacPherson (Clinton, N.Y.) in seventh in the 200 with a time of 28.26 seconds.
 
- Below are the current top-20 rankings for the Engineers, from meets up to this point in the season as listed at www.tfrrs.org.
 
400-Meter Hurdles
18. Paige Cooksey - 57.26
 
800 Meters
18. Julia Howarth - 2:13.99
 
Mile
5. Gillian Roeder - 4:52.78
 
5,000 Meters
17. Katherine Sanderson - 17:14.15
20. Archana Mohandas - 17:15.32
 
4x400 Relay
5. Madeline Hon, Shreya Kalyan, Marina Miller, Julia Howarth - 3:49.60
 
Distance Medley Relay
5. Christina Crow, Sonia Purohit, Julia Howarth, Gillian Roeder - 11:45.22
 
High Jump
17. Katie Kempff - 5' 5"
 
Pole Vault
9. Hailey Surace - 12' 5.5"
 
Shot Put
6. Alexis Boykin - 46' 10.75"
 
Weight Throw
4. Alexis Boykin - 60' 1.25"
 
@ Denotes time converted from a flat track to a banked track
 
UP NEXT:
 
- MIT returns to action on Friday, February 24th and Saturday, February 25th as the Engineers travel nearby to The TRACK at New Balance for the New England Division III Indoor Championship.
 
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