Track and Field

Posted on Feb. 26, 2001, at 12:00 a.m.

I am writing to you as captain of the indoor track and field team. I was exceedingly disappointed when The Maine Campus did not cover our America East championship meet on Monday, Feb. 19, since our meet was on Feb. 17. I held out hope that with the conference swim meet being held here the same weekend maybe there simply wasn’t enough room and we would be in the Wed. edition. After picking up the Wed. edition and finding no mention of our fourth-place finish or the men’s narrowly-edged third-place finish my heart sunk. Did the Campus mean to ignore the third- and fourth-place Track and Field conference finishes? The Bangor Daily News covered the meet but our own campus paper didn’t even mention the highlights.

I then thought maybe the Campus was going to give the same lame excuse they always give about track and field: that we don’t send the results. So I decided to find out exactly how hard it is to get these results. After going to www.americaeast.com and clicking on the Women’s Track and Field icon, the option for championship results, not to mention the article on the championship on the top page, came up and there we were.

The track and field teams work hard and deserve recognition for the great performances given at the America East Championships. The Maine Campus should not ignore the accomplishments of the track and field teams simply because it is easy to do so.

Jessica Sargent-Michaud

Women’s Track & Field captain

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