Brave New Blog » track http://www.baz.org/kate/blog Kate's thoughts, occasionally Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:53:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 End of an era http://www.baz.org/kate/blog/2007/06/10/end-of-an-era/ http://www.baz.org/kate/blog/2007/06/10/end-of-an-era/#comments Mon, 11 Jun 2007 02:08:40 +0000 kate http://www.baz.org/kate/blog/2007/06/10/end-of-an-era/ While looking for a phone number on the Smith College website, I decided to visit the athletics page. There were a number of snippets on the page, including this one, that caught my attention:

Northampton, MA: Senior Shayla Livingston (Sharon, VT) won the 400m Hurdles event in a time of 61.54 this afternoon at the Open New England Track & Field Championships held at Dartmouth College. The time breaks the school record previously set by Kate Farneth (63.15) in 1997 and breaks the automatic NCAA qualifying time of 61.59 Livington set yesterday in winning her heat. Livingston is currently ranked third in the country in the event. She also ran the 200m and finished 10th in 25.79.

I had forgotten that I had set that record, but it’s kind of sad that it has been supplanted – even if it did last for 10 years. It was only a matter of time, I suppose. I guess that puts me in the category of “aging track stars”, if one could consider me a star at a Division III school.

Also, a woman who was a year behind me in high school was just named the new Field Hockey coach at Smith. Small world…

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