LANCASTER, Pa. – The Centennial Conference has released its Preseason Women's Indoor Track and Field Poll and Gettysburg College has been voted to finish fifth.
The poll is voted on by the conference's 10 head coaches, who could not vote for their own team.
Gettysburg, which collected 46 points in the poll, is coming off a 2015-16 season in which it placed fourth at the Centennial Conference Indoor Championship and fifth at the outdoor conference meet.
Four Bullets who scored at last year's Centennial Conference Indoor Championship by virtue of their top-eight finish are back this season. Junior
Sarah Congdon (Sewell, N.J./Clearview Regional) returns after placing fifth in the 60-meter hurdles, as does junior
Ellery Lyon (Sheldonville, Mass./King Philip) after taking sixth in the high jump and eighth in the shot put, sophomore
Danielle DeMichael (Doylestown, Pa./Central Bucks East) after placing sixth in the heptathlon, and senior
Amanda Asaro (Mount Kisco, N.Y./Fox Lane) after finishing seventh in the mile. Also returning is senior
Emily Waddell (Washington, D.C./Georgetown Visitation Prep), who along with Congdon ran on the 4x200-meter relay team that captured a bronze at the indoor conference meet.
Defending indoor conference champion Johns Hopkins University was the preseason favorite after earning 81 points and nine of the 10 first-place votes. Haverford College was second with 72 points and one first-place vote and was followed by Dickinson College (65 points), Muhlenberg College (48 points), Gettysburg, Swarthmore College (44 points), Ursinus College (38 points), Franklin & Marshall College (28 points), Bryn Mawr College (19 points), and McDaniel College (nine points).
The Bullets open their indoor schedule on Saturday at the Franklin & Marshall Invitational.
Centennial Conference Preseason Women's Indoor Track and Field Poll
1. Johns Hopkins, 81 pts. (9)
2. Haverford, 72 pts. (1)
3. Dickinson, 65 pts.
4. Muhlenberg, 48 pts.
5. Gettysburg, 46 pts.
6. Swarthmore, 44 pts.
7. Ursinus, 38 pts.
8. Franklin & Marshall, 28 pts.
9. Bryn Mawr, 19 pts.
10. McDaniel, 9 pts.
First-place votes in parentheses
