THE BASICS:
 
- Location: BU Track and Tennis Center (Boston, Mass.) and the Gantcher Field House (Medford, Mass.)
 
- The Lead: Over the weekend, the No. 7 ranked MIT women's track and field team competed at the Bruce Lehane Scarlet and White Invitational at BU and the Tufts Cupid Challenge. The Engineers posted two top-20 nationally-ranked times at BU, while the team finished third out of 13 teams at Tufts with a total of 93.75 points.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED AT BU:
 
- In the mile, sophomore Christina Crow (Mercer Island, Wash.) posted a time of 4:59.72, while first-year Lexi Fernandez (Stevenson Ranch, Calif.) was right behind her at 4:59.79. Those two marks rank No. 17 and No. 18 in the country, respectively, and are both personal bests.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED AT TUFTS:
 
- Sophomore Alexis Boykin (Clayton, Ohio) earned victories in the shot put and weight throw, including a win by over nine feet in the shot. In the shot, she posted a toss of 46 feet, four inches, along with a distance of 59 feet, 9.5 inches. That mark was just 3.75 inches shy of her career-best. Sophomore Emily Ball (Des Moines, Iowa) was second in the weight throw at 50 feet, 9.25 and fifth in the shot put at 36 feet, 1.25 inches. Junior Erika Leasher (Midland, Mich.) placed fourth in the weight throw with a toss of 44 feet, nine inches.
 
- First-year Katie Kempff (St. Charles, Ill.) took the high jump with a clearance of five feet, 3.25 inches to mark her second win in the event this season. Junior Tolu Akinbo (Naperville, Ill.) finished in third at five feet, 1.25 inches and sophomore Sofia Haug (Kadrina Vald, Estonia) tied for seventh after clearing four feet, 9.5 inches.
 
- MIT had three scorers in the 400 meters, including personal-bests from both first-year Shreya Kalyan (Troy, Mich.) and first-year Krystal Montgomery (San Jose, Calif.). Kalyan was third in 59.59 seconds, followed by Montgomery in fourth at 1:00.03 and graduate student Sonia Purohit (Branchburg, N.J.) at fifth in 1:00.24.
 
- In the triple jump, first-year Nony Otu Ugwu (Katy, Texas) was second in 36 feet, 4.25 and she was followed by senior Laena Tieng (Kent, Wash.) with a jump of 36 feet, 0.25 inches. Junior Emma Martin (North Andover, Mass.) finished fifth in the long jump with a mark of 17 feet, 2.75 and Tieng followed in eighth at 16 feet, 5.25 inches.
 
- First-year Hailey Surace (Snohomish, Wash.) finished third in the pole vault as she cleared a personal-best height of 11 feet, 3.75 inches.
 
- 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
14. Paige Cooksey - 57.26
 
800 Meters
20. Julia Howarth - 2:16.29
 
Mile
4. Gillian Roeder - 4:54.37
17. Christina Crow - 4:59.72
18. Lexi Fernandez - 4:59.7
19. Olivia Rosenstein - 4:59.91
 
5,000 Meters
10. Katherine Sanderson - 17:14.15
12. Archana Mohandas - 17:15.32
 
4x400 Relay
4. Madeline Hon, Paige Cooksey, Marina Miller, Julia Howarth - 3:51.84
 
High Jump
14. Katie Kempff - 5' 5"
 
Shot Put
5. Alexis Boykin - 46' 10.75"
 
Weight Throw
3. Alexis Boykin - 60' 1.25"
 
@ Denotes time converted from a flat track to a banked track
 
UP NEXT:
 
- MIT returns to action next Friday, February 10th as the Engineers travel to Boston University for the David Hemery Valentine Invitational. The Engineers will then host the Gordon Kelly Invitational on Saturday, February 11th beginning at 11:30 a.m.
 
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