IN SPORTS: BRYN MAWR SCHOLAR-ATHLETES SET MILESTONES IN TRACK AND BASKETBALL

The Bryn Mawr College Track and Field team set a distance medley relay school record and Joanna Simonis '05 qualified for the NCAA Indoor Championships in the mile, while senior Deb Charamella '05 broke the school record for career assists in basketball.

Simonis won the mile at the McElligott Invitational this past weekend in a time of 5:04.36 to become the first Bryn Mawr scholar-athlete to qualify for the NCAA Indoor Championships and to break the 19-year old school record of 5:35.5 held by Dorothy Payne ‘87. To date Simonis' performance is the second fastest time for the mile run in Division III this year.

Melissa Leedle ‘05 , Ashley Dawkins ‘08, Joy Racowski '05 and Simonis won the distance medley relay and set a new school record of 12:27.0 in the process. The team beat the old school record set last year at the Centennial Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships by more than 16 seconds. Their time is only seven seconds away from the NCAA Division III provisional qualifying standard of 12:20.00. These outstanding performances were particularly poignant for Bryn Mawr Track and Field coach Dan Talbot. He was a teammate of Seamus McElligott, whom the Invitational honors, at Haverford College.

Senior guard Charamella broke the school career assists record in basketball while leading the Owls to a win over Notre Dame (Md.) last Tuesday. The former record of 326 was held by Jo-Anne Meyer who graduated from Bryn Mawr in 1990. The new record now stands at 336 and moves Charamella into ninth place on the Centennial Conference career assist list.

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