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2009 Women's Track and Field

Isabel Alexander

  • Events Multis
  • Class 2009
  • Hometown Harvard, Mass.
  • High School The Bromfield School

Biography

2007-2008:

Indoor Track: Co-captain.... Gained her secondNCAA All-American award, finishing sixth at indoor nationalsin the 800 meters.... At Open New Englands, Alexander finished infifth in the 800-meter run at 2:14.69, just .10 seconds behindWilliams' Ariel Williams and .88 seconds ahead of the University ofConnecticut's Keelan King; Alexander's time broke the former Batesindoor 800 record of 2:15.22 set by Ashley Wentworth '06 in 2006,giving her a ninth record for her indoor and outdoor track andfield career; the 4 by 400-meter relay quartet of IzzyAlexander, Dana Lindauer, Molly Radis and Jen Marino qualifiedprovisionally for the NCAA Championships, finishing in 3:57.19 for13th place out of 21 teams and breaking the former program recordof 4:00.19 set in 2006 by Kathleen Nugent '06, Danielle Touhey '06,Izzy Alexander and Wentworth.... Qualified for the 2008 DivisionIII New England Indoor Track and Field Championships inthe Bates pentathon at the beginning of theseason, scoring 2,625 points.... At New Englands,helped Bates' 4x400-meter relay team finished third in4:03.62, the No. 2 performance in Bates history (Izzy Alexander,Molly Radis, Dana Lindauer and Jen Marino).... At State of MaineChampionships, won the 600 in 1:40.16, .28 seconds ahead of USM'sChrista Hutchinson, and was fourth in the 55-meter hurdles; IzzyAlexander, first-year Dana Lindauer, Jen Marino and Molly Radis wonthe 4x400 relay by over eight seconds ahead of runner-up Bowdoin,in 4:08.21.

Outdoor Track: Co-captain... Named to the 2008ESPN The Magazine  Academic All-District women'strack & field/cross country team.... Named to U.S. Track andField and Cross Country Coaches Association's 2008 AcademicAll-America team, by virtue of qualifying for the NCAAChampionships while maintaining the requisite grade point averageof 3.25.... Named the 2007-08 Bates Female Athlete of the Year inApril.... Earned her third NCAA All-America award thisyear with a sixth-place showing in the 400-meter hurdles(61.91) at outdoor nationals in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, breaking herown Bates record.... At ECACs, Alexander won the 400-meterhurdles (1:02.87) and helped the 4 by 400 relay team ofAlexander, Jen Marino, Dana Lindauer and Amy Rosania to aneighth-place finish (4:05.10).... The 4 by 400 relay team alsofinished in 13th at Open New Englands (4:04.84).... Alexander alsoran the 100-meter hurdles at Open New Englands in 16.61 seconds,putting her in a tie for 27th place out of 32.... At New EnglandDivision III Championships, Bates finished sixth out of 16 teams inthe 4 by 400-meter relay, as Dana Lindauer, Amy Rosania, IzzyAlexander and Jen Marino finished in 4:06.96... Alexander also wonthe 400-meter hurdles at both the NESCAC and New England DivisionIII Outdoor Championships.

2006-2007:

Indoor Track: Competed at thepentathalon and scored 2,705 points for first placequalifyng for New England Division III Championships and ECACs...onthe 13th of January Alexander won the pole vault (8-0), the55-meter hurdles (9.76 seconds) and the 600 meters (1:44.36)qualifying for New England Div. IIIs for the 600...was a member ofthe winning distance medley relay team at Tufts, won secondplace in the 500 to qualify for Div. III and ECAC championships,and qualified for New Englands in the 55m hurtles...won the 600m atthe State meet with a time of 1:39.22, the second fastest in Bateshistory, qualifying for ECACs...ran on the team that brokethe school record in the indoor distance medley relay...wonthe pentathalon at New Englands, and at Open New Englands broke herown record in the 500m and ran on the 4X800 team that also broke aschool record...ran with the distance medley again at ECACs wherethey again broke their record winning the event and going on tocompete in the NCAA championship meet where they were namedAll-Americans for their 10th place finish.

Outdoor Track:  Won the 100m hurdles in16.84 seconds qualifying for NESCACs and New Englands, and the 400hurdles in 1:05.25 qualifying for the all-division Open NewEnglands, and was on the winning 4X400 relay team...at the AlohaRelays Alexander won the heptathlon and qualified for ECACs, andalso won the 100m hurtles...qualified with the 4X400 relay team forECACs also earning All-NESCAC honors in the 400m hurtles...At NewEnglands won the title for women's heptathlon, and helped the 4X800relay team place second with a time of 9:25.9, the secondfastest in Bates history...finished fifth in the 400m hurtles atOpen New Englands...at ECACs Alexander placed fifth in the 400mhurtles with a time of 1:03.14, beating her own record and earningher the right to compete at Nationals.

2005-2006:

Indoor Track: Finished third in the BatesPentathlon...Qualified for New England Division III Championshipsin pentathlon (2, 479 points) in the Bates Pentathlon on December3rd, and the 55 hurdles (9.5 seconds) and long jump(15-9) in the Southern Maine Invitational on January 14th atUSM...Ran the fourth-fastest 500 meter time in Bates history(1:22.14) at the Tufts Invitational on January 21st, qualifying forNew England Division III Championships, Open New Englands, and ECACChampionships...Member of the school record-breaking 4 by 400 relayteam (4:00.19) in Open New Englands at Boston University onFebruary 24, breaking a 16 year old school record for the secondtime. 

Outdoor Track: At the Bates Invitational onApril 15th, ran fourth-best time in Bates history for the 100 meterhurdles (16.28) and qualified for the all-division Open NewEnglands in the 400 meter hurdles (1:05.27)...Becomes second-bestBates heptathlon athlete of all time in the Aloha Relaysat Bowdoin on April 22nd (3,682 pts)...Won the 400 hurdles event inthe NESCAC Outdoor Track and Field Championships at Bowdoin onApril 29th (104.95)...At the Division III New Englands meet inSpringfield, MA on May 4th, she became the second-best Bates 400hurdles competitor of all time (1:04.59)...At the Open NewEngland Championships on May 13th, competed in the 400meter hurdles (1:05.21), placing 9th; also a member of the 4 by 400relay team, which placed 13th (4:10.40)...At ECAC Championships onMay 19th, placed 7th in the 400 meter hurdles (1:04.79) andran on the 4 by 400 relay team (4:02.52), which finishedfourth.

Bates Academics/Extracurriculars: Dean'sList.... Lewiston Middle School Civil Rights Team.... Athletes forHealthy Choices.... SAAC.... Working on Project for Lewiston MiddleSchool called "Digital Story Telling for Peace."

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