The William & Mary women's track & field team will once again compete at home this weekend, welcoming three top-flight teams to Williamsburg for the Dan Stimson Memorial Quad Meet.  The meet is the first scored team event (other than the Colonial Relays) that the Tribe has hosted since 1992, and will include squads from George Mason, Navy, and Buffalo in addition to W&M.  All of the throws will take place at the Stimson Throwing Events Area, adjacent to the Green and Gold Village, while all jumping and running events are held inside of Zable Stadium.  Action begins at 11:45 a.m. on Saturday, March 24, and can be followed with live results online at TribeAthletics.com.

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This weekend is the second of four meets that W&M will host this spring, the most since 1999-00.  After last weekend's Tribe Invitational and this weekend's Dan Stimson Memorial Quad Meet, the Green and Gold will host the 53rd Annual Berkeley Realty Property Management Colonial Relays, the largest scored collegiate meet in the nation outside of the NCAA Championships.  The three-day meet will be held in two weeks, April 5-7.  Finally, the home schedule will come to a close May 4-5, with the Colonial Athletic Association Championships.

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The Berkeley Realty Property Management Colonial Relays will be streamed live this year around the world, live on FloTrack.  Fans with a subscription to FloTrack PRO will be able to watch every track event, as well as some bonus coverage of jumping events.  For more information, please visit FloTrack.org, or head to TribeAthletics.com for the meet schedule and other information about the meet.

Breaking Down the Meet
Saturday's meet will be scored in a double-dual format, meaning that each team will be measured against all other teams, and whomever turns in the overall top performance in any event will get credit for three wins.  The match-ups for the weekend are as follows:

W&M vs. George Mason
W&M vs. Buffalo
W&M vs. Navy
George Mason vs. Buffalo
George Mason vs. Navy
Buffalo vs. Navy

In each individual event, the scoring will go 5-3-2-1, with no more than two athletes from each team scoring.  In the relays, the scoring is 5-3, with each team only scoring their fastest team.  The first team to score more than 96 points will have clinched the win in each match-up.

Scouting the Tribe
W&M began the spring season last weekend with the Tribe Invitational, and turned in several top performances.  Senior All-American Leia Mistowski (Narragansett, R.I.) was named the Colonial Athletic Association Athlete of the Week, after winning the hammer throw and breaking the stadium record at 60.22m (197-7).  That was the third-longest throw of her career, and ranks her third among all U.S. hammer throwers early in the spring season.  Also in the throws, sophomore Sam Moravsky (Sherman, Conn.) made a huge lifetime-best to win the javelin, throwing a conference-leading 44.34m (145-6).

Opening up their spring seasons this week are grad students Molly Applegate (Toms River, N.J.) and Abigail Motley (Virginia Beach, Va.).  Applegate had an outstanding indoor campaign this winter, culminating with a runner-up race in the ECAC mile, and is the top seed in both the 3,000m steeplechase and the open 3,000m.  Motley, who transferred from Virginia Tech after taking third in the ACC 10,000m last May, is running for the first time in the Green and Gold and is entered in the 3,000m, where she has a lifetime-best of 9:38.76 from February of 2016.  Also opening the outdoor campaign after training through last weekend is freshman Lauren Finikiotis (Gibsonia, Pa.), the CAA Rookie of the Year in cross country last fall, as well as sophomore Charlotte Kowalk (Ijamsville, Md.), who owns the rookie records in the 800m from last year.  Both women are entered in the 1,500m run, while Finikiotis also is scheduled to run the 3,000m.

Other entries of note include senior Kacey Wheeler (Fairfax, Va.), who is entered in her specialty of the 400m dash as well as the 4x400m relay, and redshirt-junior Maggie Sullivan (Hagerstown, Md.), who takes a break from the 400m hurdles to concentrate this week on the 100m high hurdles and the relay.  Redshirt-freshman sprint ace Victoria Gersch (Mercer Island, Wash.) is entered in both the 100m and the 200m again, and in the high jump, seniors Abby Jones (Woodbury, Conn.) and Minna McFarland (Fredericksburg, Va.) are the top two entrants.  W&M also has the top three entries in the triple jump, with Julia McDermott (Potomac, Md.), Brianna Miller (Midlothian, Va.), and Alexis Brender a Brandis (Williamsburg, Va.) all doubling in both the long and triple.  Miller (100m hurdles) and BABs (200m dash) are both actually tripling in the meet.


11:45 AM - Hammer Throw - Leia Mistowski
Predicted NCAA Qualifier - 58.80m (192-11); ECAC - 51.00m (167-4); School Record - 62.03m (203-6)

12:00 PM - Pole Vault - Sasha Osipenko, Jordan Lipinski, Olivia Tardieu, Lauren Graves
Predicted NCAA Qualifier - 4.04m (13-3); ECAC - 3.70m (12-1.5); School Record - 4.01m (13-1.75)

12:30 PM - High Jump - Minna McFarland, Abby Jones
Predicted NCAA Qualifier - 1.72m (5-7.75); ECAC - 1.70m (5-7); School Record - 1.78m (5-10)

12:30 PM - Long Jump - Julia McDermott, Alexis Brender a Brandis, Brianna Miller
Predicted NCAA Qualifier - 6.09m (19-11.75); ECAC - 5.70m (18-8.5); School Record - 5.77m (18-11.25)

1:00 PM - Shot Put - Leah Earnest
Predicted NCAA Qualifier - 15.28m (50-1.75); ECAC - 13.60m (44-7.5); School Record - 48-6 (14.78m); Freshman Record - 13.82m (45-4.25)

1:10 PM - 3,000m Steeplechase - Molly Applegate, Julia Montgomery
Predicted NCAA Qualifier - 10:25.40; ECAC - 10:55.24; School Record - 10:15.99

1:40 PM - 4x100m Relay - Priya Sidhu, Megan Tynan, Jadyn Currie, Felecia Hayes, Taylor E. Jones
Predicted NCAA Qualifier - 45.05; ECAC - 48.04; School Record - 46.85

1:50 PM - 1,500m Run - Lauren Finikiotis, Charlotte Kowalk, Carina Garcia
Predicted NCAA Qualifier - 4:24.08; ECAC - 4:34.24; School Record - 4:14.73; Freshman Record - 4:28.37

2:10 PM - 100m Hurdles - Jadyn Currie, Taylor E. Jones, Maggie Sullivan, Brianna Miller
Predicted NCAA Qualifier - 13.58; ECAC - 14.54; School Record - 14.01; Freshman Record - 14.01

2:15 PM - Javelin - Kathleen Wirshup, Sam Moravsky
Predicted NCAA Qualifier - 45.24m (148-5); ECAC - 41.00m (134-6); School Record - 153-6 (46.78m)

2:25 PM - 400m Dash - Maddison Wester, Kacey, Wheeler, Susanna Maisto
Predicted NCAA Qualifier - 53.96; ECAC - 55.94; School Record - 55.11; Freshman Record - 55.50

2:40 PM - 100m Dash - Priya Sidhu, Felecia Hayes, Megan Tynan, Victoria Gersch
Predicted NCAA Qualifier - 11.58; ECAC - 12.08; School Record - 12.09; Freshman Record - 12.23

2:55 PM - 800m Run - Steph Urbancik, Kate Miller, Taylor D. Jones, Lindsay Schott, Abbey Hillerich
Predicted NCAA Qualifier - 2:08.22; ECAC - 2:11.94; School Record - 2:08.30; Freshman Record - 2:13.17

3:00 PM - Discus - Leah Earnest, Leia Mistowski
Predicted NCAA Qualifier - 49.76m (163-3); ECAC - 42.50m (139-5); School Record - 47.72m (156-7); Freshman Record - 47.72m (156-7)

3:15 PM - 400m Hurdles - Natalie Bernstein, Josie Landis
Predicted NCAA Qualifier - 59.54; ECAC - 1:03.04; School Record - 1:01.11; Freshman Record - 1:03.40

3:30 PM - 200m Dash - Felecia Hayes, Alexis Brender a Brandis, Aly Logue, Victoria Gersch
Predicted NCAA Qualifier - 23.61; ECAC - 24.74; School Record - 24.46; Freshman Record - 24.46

3:30 PM - Triple Jump - Alexis Brender a Brandis, Brianna Miller, Julia McDermott
Predicted NCAA Qualifier - 12.56m (41-2.5); ECAC - 11.90m (39-0.5); School Record - 12.08m (39-7.75)

3:40 PM - 3,000m Run - Abigail Motley, Lauren Finikiotis, Sarah Goodrich, Megan Kolbe, Molly Applegate
ECAC - 10:00.24; School Record - 9:10.41; Freshman Record - 9:36.34

4:10 PM - 4x400m Relay - Victoria Gersch, Maggie Sullivan, Susanna Maisto, Kacey Wheeler
Predicted NCAA Qualifier - 3:38.92; ECAC - 3:52.84; School Record - 3:47.94