Results

DAY TWO

Junior Brittany Martin made Huskies history on Saturday by becoming the first-ever CAA women's high jump champion at the 2010 CAA Championship in Fairfax, Va. The Sanford, Fla. Native cleared 1.65m for 10 points and the victory, marking a Northeastern best this season.

The 4 x 100-meter relay quartet of senior Consandria Walker, junior Serena Allen and sophomores Sarah Trotman and Saleena Abdur-Rashed also made history by becoming NU's first 4 x 100-meter relay CAA champions. The Huskies combined for a winning, ECAC-qualifying time of 47.45 to capture 10 more points. In 2006, Northeastern's 4 x 400-meter relay team triumphed with a time of 3:49.27. This season's 4 x 100-meter relay squad has met ECAC qualifications in every outdoor race this year.

The Huskies finished sixth with a total of 90 points at this year's conference championship. William and Mary won the title with an aggregate of 143. Northeastern finished fourth last season.

Sophomores Ida Cance and Regan Cleminson joined Martin, tying for 11th with matching measurements of 1.50m. Senior Andrea Govatsos failed to post a mark.

Northeastern continued its dominance in the jumps portion thanks to Walker's combination of 11.84m in the triple jump. Walker's mark secured six more points for the Huskies.

Abdur-Rashed posted Northeastern fourth-best mark in school history in the 100-meter hurdles, producing eight points via second-place clip of 13.91. The Bronx. N.Y. native posted NU's first sub-14 second 100-meter hurdle time of the season and qualified for the ECAC Championship along the way.

Fresh off a hammer throw title on Friday, junior Althea Charles picked up five more points in the shot put after a heave of 13.58m. In the discus throw, freshman Rachel Taback and Charles posted respective 10th- and 14th-place marks of 37.37m and 35.41m.

The 4 x 400-meter relay team of sophomores Nikki Cuhna and Abdur-Rashed along with juniors Angelique Marcus and Seri Gordon produced the same seventh-place result with a mark of 3:52.22.

Gordon kicked out NU's best time in the qualifying portion of the 800-meter run yesterday and was able to capture four points thanks to a fifth-place beat of 2:12.90 in Saturday's final. The Loudonville, N.Y. native notched the Huskies' best time in the 800-meter run thus far.

Cuhna made he debut in the 400-meter hurdles at the CAA Championship, notching four points after crossing in 1:03.84. Abdur-Rashed followed up her swift performance in the 100-meter hurdles with a seventh-place effort of 1:07.36 for a pair of Huskies' points.

Junior Annie Scully outlasted the elements of the 3,000-meter steeplechase, grabbing six more points with a third-place jaunt of 11:12.93. Classmate Jess Barton came in 10th with a time of 12:08.15. Scully recorded NU's third-best mark in the steeplechase (11:06.44) on March 27 at Raleigh.

Senior Celeste Holder and rookie Sara Hancock concluded the remainder of the heptathlon on Saturday. Holder totaled 4,401 points for third place, notching six points for the Huskies while Hancock landed just outside of scoring in ninth (3,245 points).

Holder was able to log a third-place finish thanks to Saturday's long jump and javelin throw triumphs. Holder chalked up respective winning mars of 5.35m and 21.18m in the long jump and javelin throw while Hancock finished seventh in the long jump (4.78m) and did not place in the javelin. Holder and Hancock finished fourth and fifth, in that order, with times of 2:32.91 and 2:38.52 in the 800-meter run.

The Huskies return to Boston to host the New England Championship on Friday and Saturday, May 7 – 8 at Solomon Track in Dedham.

DAY ONE

Junior Althea Charles gave the Northeastern women's track & field team the jolt it needed by becoming NU's second-ever CAA hammer throw champion, clearing 54.73m for the victory on Friday at the 2010 CAA Championship in Fairfax, Va. The West Orange, N.J. native once again set a personal record in the event, securing 10 points for the Huskies and meeting ECAC-qualifying standards. In 2007, Zara Northover captured the Huskies' first hammer throw title at James Madison (157'5).

Junior Heather Crocker and sophomore Christina Izzicupo set an early precedent on Friday, notching another 14 points for Northeastern in the javelin throw, the first women's event of the competition. Crocker and Izzicupo strung together respective second and third-place tosses of 40.02m and 36.67m to obtain a good chunk of NU's first-day total.

In her first conference championship trial, freshman Jillena Decarteret delivered a vault of 3.55m to tie for fourth place, notching 4.5 points for the Huskies. The newcomer cleared the same bar as VCU's Stephanie Newing.

Senior Celeste Holder acquired two more points for Northeastern with her seventh-place jump of 5.59m in the long jump. Classmate Consandria Walker took 16th with a mark of 4.98m, finishing out of scoring contention.

On the track, sophomore Saleena Abdur-Rashed positioned herself as a top threat for the 100-meter hurdles title tomorrow after turning out the second-fastest qualifying time of Friday. The Bronx, N.Y. native crossed the line in ECAC-qualifying fashion with a mark of 14.18.

In the 400-meter hurdles prelims, both Abdur-Rashed and sophomore Nikki Cuhna passed into Saturday's final. Cuhna churned out a clip of 1:04.77 while Abdur-Rashed earned the chance for another title with a mark of 1:05.02.

The Huskies fielded a heavy contingent of runners in the 800-meter challenge but only junior Seri Gordon passed into tomorrow's final showdown. Gordon chalked up the fastest time of any Husky this season at a clip of 2:14.22, finishing fifth and besting 27 other sprinters.

Freshmen Eryn Wheeler (2:15.62) and Laura Coyne (2:19.08) concluded in ninth and 17th, respectively, while junior Courtney Mortimer (2:22.51), sophomore Christiana Gallagher (2:23.35) and junior Angelique Marcus (2:30.11) posted 24th, 27th and 31st-place marks, accordingly.

Junior Serena Allen and Walker both vied for a shot at the 100-meter dash title in Friday's qualifying, but neither was able to make the eight-woman cut. Walker turned in a 15th-place time of 12.35 while Allen was timed in 12.77 for 20th. Sophomore Sarah Trotman's time of 25.03 in the 200-meter dash preliminaries fell 0.2 seconds below qualifying as the placed 17th.

In the distance game, junior Jess Barton turned in a time of 19:12.63 in the 5,000-meter run, earning her a 14th-place finish. Junior Kristen Martin completed the 10,000-meter challenge in 38:01.59 for 11th place while classmate Jill Buck crossed in 39:32.32 for 17th.

Two Huskies in senior Celeste Holder and freshman Sara Hancock entered the heptathlon event, marking the first time any member of the track & field team took part in the seven-event extravaganza.

On Friday, the two competed in the 100-meter hurdles, high jump, shot put and 200-meter dash. Holder locked herself in prime position for Saturday, winning the high jump (1.60m) and grabbing second in the 200-meter dash (26.09). The senior finished fourth in the shot put and ninth in the 100-meter hurdles (16.56).

Hancock was clocked in 16.16 for seventh in the 100-meter hurdles and 27.85 in the 200-meter dash for ninth. In the high jump, Hancock cleared 1.42m for sixth and registered a toss of 6.19m for ninth in the shot put.

The final day of the 2010 CAA Championship will get underway tomorrow with the women's shot put at 10 a.m. Charles, who has already captured one crown, looks to obtain another early Saturday morning.