MYRTLE BEACH, SC (March 20, 2026) – Junior
Ceci LaBarge scored in the hammer throw, and sophomore
Lauren Zipoli and junior
Tessa Player scored in the heptathlon as the Tufts University women's outdoor track & field team competed on day two of the Alan Connie Shamrock Invitational on Friday.
LaBarge threw 48.40m (158'9") for fourth place (five team points) out of 60 entries in today's hammer throw competition. The event also saw Jumbo PR's registered by juniors
Nicole Kuhl (41.83m – 137'3") and
Jackie Wells (39.59m – 129'10"). All three marks were within the early-season national top 35 as of Friday evening.
Five Tufts multi-athletes finished the heptathlon today. Sophomore
Lauren Zipoli placed fifth out of the 13 entries (4217 points), junior
Tessa Player took seventh (4113), first-year
Camilla Brewer finished ninth (3656), sophomore
Cameron Stanton was 10th (3425) and first-year
Eleanor Lewis scored 13th (3110).
Zipoli's 4217 total score was her PR in her third career heptathlon. Today her 5.28m (17'4") long jump was her outdoor PR and third among the heptathlon competitors. It's a top-ranked mark nationally in the event early in the outdoor season. Perhaps the best single performance in the heptathlon for Tufts today was Player's 37.99m (124'7") distance in the javelin throw. Her PR, it won today's competition, it is a top early NCAA DIII mark and ranks #4 all-time at Tufts. Player was also second in the competition for the 800 meters, running a 2:29.21 PR time. Brewer also had a strong 800 time of 2:29.36 today.
Tufts also had two entries in the long jump today, with junior
Nora Jean-Jacques posting a 5.19m (16'10 ½") mark and first-year
Isabella Romero reaching 4.58m (15'0 ½"). Jean-Jacques' distance is an early-season national top 20 mark.
LaBarge, Zipoli and Player combined for 11 team points today, which placed Tufts in a tie for 12th out of 30 teams with eight events scored.
The Jumbos compete on their third and final day of the meet at Doug Shaw Memorial Stadium on Saturday.
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