The women’s indoor track team seems to have not taken a winter break, like the rest of the student population. Continuing to compete and train over break, the team was rewarded with two outstanding performances in the past two weeks, and a No. 14 national rank in the track and field polls.

The first competition during winter break was held at Rochester Institute of Technology’s Gordon Field House on Jan. 16. The Bombers set three school records and had seven Eastern College Athletic Conference Championship qualifying marks, including two by junior All-American Marcia McCord. McCord not only qualified for the ECAC championships in the long jump with a 5.54-meter leap, but she hit the NCAA provisional mark, and set a new school record in the event. She also qualified for ECACs in the 55-meter dash and won the 200-meter dash.

Also highlighting the meet was junior pole vaulter Kristen DeStefano, who bested her own school record by soaring to a 3.38 meter height. She also made the finals and hit the ECAC standard in the 55-meter hurdles.

Freshman Lauren Goldberg, sophomore Rebecca Coffman, McCord and sophomore Emma Dewart won the 4x200-meter relay while setting a school record in the process, running 1:47.70.

A week later, the Bombers returned to action at the Cornell Upstate Challenge, held at Barton Hall at Cornell University. For the second week in a row, DeStefano bested her school record in the pole vault, this time vaulting 3.45 meters.

Dewart also had a spectacular meet, provisionally qualifying for the pentathlon at the NCAA Championships and setting an ECAC mark in the high jump at 1.65 meters.

In addition, junior Kate Leugers, McCord and graduate student Lauren Koppel all hit ECAC qualifying times.

The South Hill squad returns to Rochester Institute of Technology next weekend to compete in the Empire 8 Championships.