Female athletes feel pressure to look good while competing
Societal norms pressure female athletes to focus on looking good on top of being prepared for competition.
Societal norms pressure female athletes to focus on looking good on top of being prepared for competition.
The women’s cross-country team earned an at large bid for the NCAA DIII Championship. Senior Sean Phillips qualified individually as well.
The cross country teams continued their dominance of the Empire 8 Conference by topping the field in the championship Oct. 29 at Hartwick College.
Graduate student Michaela Cioffredi did not begin running cross-country until her second year at Ithaca College.
The men’s and women’s cross-country teams competed in the Williams College Purple Valley Invitational Sept. 24.
The women’s team placed second while the men’s team placed seventh Sept. 17.
At the Hamilton College Short Course Invitational on Sept. 10 , the women’s team finished in first place with 30 points in the 4k course and the men’s team came in fourth place with 88 points in the 5K course.
The women’s cross-country team is aiming to send a full team to nationals this season. Last year, they sent two individuals.
The women’s track and field team placed first at the Empire 8 Championship on April 23 while the men placed second.
The track and field teams competed at the Pioneer Invitational in Utica, New York and Marc Deneault Invitational at Cornell University on Feb. 20.
The men’s and women’s cross-country teams placed fourth and seventh, respectively, in the NCAA Atlantic Regional Championships.
The men clinched their sixth straight championship, while the women continued their streak of 13 straight championships as the only Empire 8 champion since 2003.