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Track and Field Sets Three School Records In First Meets

“Each week should be better up until we get to indoor heps,” Glauser said. “I would expect a lot of records to be broken throughout the remainder of the season.”

HARVARD MULTI MEET

The Crimson got the weekend started by hosting the Harvard Multi Meet, consisting of the women’s pentathlon and the first four events of the men’s heptathlon.

The Harvard women demonstrated their versatility in the pentathlon as junior Madison Hansen captured the title with 3,657 points—her second-highest career total.

Hansen was joined in the top six by first time pentathlon competitors Allison Morrison and Modesett with the junior and sophomore athletes finishing third and sixth, respectively.

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“It was a great showing for them.” Saretsky said. “It’s one of the hardest events on the track with five different disciplines…. I was pleased with their showing, and it’ll be one of our strongest events during Heps.”

In addition to the overall success, there were various notable individual performances with Modesett and Hansen going one-two in the 60 meter hurdles, while Morrison took second in the high jump with a 1.66 meter finish—the second highest in her career.

The success continued as sophomore Haley Baker would place first in the shot put by one one-hundreth of a meter while the 800 meter podium was colored crimson with Hansen, Morrison and Modesett taking second, third and fourth respectively.

On the men’s side, individual success was the highlight through the first four events with freshman Andrew Bolze taking second in the shot put and junior Mark Hill placing second in the high jump with a 1.93 meter leap.

In addition to the success, being at home for the first time was one of the biggest benefits for the team according to Glauser.

“I really like that meet because not only is it home but everyone competes together.” Glauser said. “In track you don’t necessarily have that…. It was nice to have everybody there.”

—Staff writer Julio Fierro can be reached at jfierro01@college.harvard.edu.

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