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2009-10 Women's Track and Field Roster

Shaina Pettit

  • Position Thrower/Multi
  • Class Junior
  • Highschool Somerset
  • Hometown Berkley, Mass.

Biography

2009-10: Registered 2,697 points for a fourth-place finish in the pentathlon at the Dartmouth Relays…Earned eighth-place in the shot put with a toss of 10.80m and eighth-place in the long jump with a leap of 4.57 at the Harvard Invitational…Registered 2,152 points en route to a tenth-place finish in the pentathlon at the New England Championship… Outdoors, finished 13th in the long jump (4.94m), sixth in the discus (35.44m) and 12th in the 100-meter hurdles (17.45) at the Seahawk Invitational…Logged a 25th-place mark of 2:42.67 in the 800-meter run and took 12th in the 100-meter hurdles (17.54) at the Husky Spring Open…Finished seventh and ninth, respectively, in the shot put and discus with marks of 10.71m and 31.51m at the Wildcat Invitational.

2008-09:
Opened the indoor season placing 12th in both the shot put (36'5.75) and weight throw (37'11.5) at the Husky Winter Carnival...placed seventh in the pentathlon with a score of 2,804 at the Dartmouth Relays...37th in the 55 hurdles (9.52) at the Great Dane Classic...13th in the shot put (37'3), 14th in the 55 hurdles (9.40) and 14th in the long jump (15'10.5) at the Boston Indoor Games...fourth in the shot put (37'9.5) and sixth in the 60 hurdles (9.89) and weight throw (38'5) at the Battle of Beantown...fifth in the pentathlon with a score of 2,322 at the New England Championship...outdoors, placed fourth in the heptathlon with a score of 4,110 at the CAA Championship...Indoors, Registered 2,697 points for a fourth-place finish in the pentathlon at the Dartmouth Relays…Earned eighth-place in the shot put with a toss of 10.80m and eighth-place in the long jump with a leap of 4.57 at the Harvard Invitational…Registered 2,152 points en route to a tenth-place finish in the pentathlon at the New England Championship.

2007-08: Indoors, 17th in the weight throw (34'7.5) and 16th in the shot put (33'10.25) at the Husky Winter Carnival...15th in the weight throw (38'1.25) and 18th in the shot put (30'11) at the Dartmouth Relays...placed 16th in the weight throw (36'5.75) and 12th in the shot put (31'5.75) at the Reebok Boston Indoor Games...took sixth in the weight throw (39'5) and fourth in the shot put (35'10) at the Battle of Beantown...outdoors, placed 11th in the 100 hurdles (17.07), 13th in the long jump (16'2.5) and second in the discus (118'10) at the Seahawk Invitational...threw the discus 120'2 to place second and cleared 4'10 to place eighth in the high jump at the Husky Spring Open...took fifth in the high jump (4'11), fourth in the long jump (16'2.5), fifth in the discus (109'1), eighth in the javelin (90'6) and 12th in the shot put (32'5.5) at the Stonehill Invitational...took ninth in the heptathlon (3,792), 13th in the javelin (87'10) and 13th in the discus (109'6) at the CAA Championship.

High School: Member of indoor track team for three years and outdoor team for two...captained the indoor team one season and the outdoor team for two...conference All-Star every season she competed...All-Scholastic every season...named Female Athlete of the Year at Somerset High in 2007...racked up 10 school and class records...also played varsity soccer for three seasons; a conference All-Star her senior year...soccer team won the Eastern Athletic Conference her senior year.

Personal: Born Aug 15, 1989...majoring in Physical Therapy...enjoys soccer and gymnastics...Class of 2012.