Track & Field All-Conference Team Announced
Pless of Bates, Millett of Bowdoin Take Sabasteanski Award
HADLEY, Mass. – Following the completion of the NESCAC Men's and Women's Track and Field Championships this past Saturday at Bates College, the conference has announced the 2012 All-NESCAC Team. The top three finishers in each event during the championship receive All-Conference recognition.
Bates junior David Pless (Atlanta, Ga.) was honored by the conference's coaches with the Sabasteanski Award as the Most Outstanding Male Performer. Pless had a record-setting weekend at his home facility during the annual NESCAC meet while making sure that the shot put, hammer, and discus titles all stayed in the Bobcats' possession for the third year in a row. Pless' first-place performances in the shot put (17.42 meters) and hammer (59.34) set new standards at the championship and his winning discus toss of 53.58 meters established a new facility record. The championship record in the hammer throw had stood since 1995 and became Pless' second, as he previously owned the best mark in the shot put from the 2011 league meet.
The Sabasteanski Award for the Most Outstanding Female Performer was bestowed upon senior Elsa Millett (Manchester, Conn.) of Bowdoin. Millett won her second consecutive NESCAC crown in the 200-meter dash on Saturday in 25.41 seconds and added the 400-meter title in 57.35, the third time in her career that she has won the 400 at the conference championships. Millett is the first Polar Bear to garner Most Outstanding Performer honors since Erin O'Neill did so in 1993, as the Sabasteanski award is named in honor of the late Frank Sabasteanski, who graduated from Bowdoin and later led the cross country and track and field programs at the college for 28 years.
Rookie Most Outstanding Performer honors went to Sean Enos (Lynnfield, Mass.) of Bates and Christina Harvey (Middletown, Conn.) of Tufts. Enos joined teammate Pless among the league's best in the throwing events, as he earned All-NESCAC honors in the shot (2nd), discus (3rd), and hammer (3rd). Harvey won the 100-meter dash by 0.02 seconds, took fourth in the 200 dash, and was part of the Jumbos' third-place 4x100-meter relay squad.
After winning NESCAC Coach of the Year for the first time in his career last spring, Al Fereshetian of Bates was selected as the top men's coach for the second year in a row. Fereshetian's squad claimed its second NESCAC title on Saturday (2000), edging out runner-up Tufts by 10 points. Tufts head coach Kristen Morwick earned Coach of the Year on the women's side. In her 12th season with the Jumbos, Morwick's team finished second at this year's NESCAC championships.
