TROY, N.Y. – It was an outstanding opening day of action at the 2014 ECAC Championships for the Mount Holyoke College track & field team, which saw four athletes at the event, hosted by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Highlighting the day was sophomore captain Camille Coklow, who won her preliminary heat in the 100-meter dash to qualify for the event finals.

Coklow (Chicago, Ill./The Latin School of Chicago) posted a season's best time of 12.07 to post the top preliminary time of the day. She will now compete in Friday's event finals, set to run at 1:35pm. Senior captain Kristina Weld (Warwick, Mass./Pioneer Valley Regional) concluded her solid career on Thursday, finishing 18th overall in the hammer throw with a distance of 43.22 meters.

Also in action was junior Amber Legare (Chicopee, Mass./Chicopee Comprehensive), competing in the seven-event Heptathlon. She finished 11th in the 100-meter hurdles, posting a time of 17.37. She also placed 12th in the high jump with a mark of 1.36 meters.

Legare went on to win the shot put event, recording a career-best mark of 10.99 meters, before concluding the day with an eighth-place mark of 27.94 in the 200-meter dash. Currently, she is eighth of 15 competing athletes with a score of 2,255 points. Legare will conclude action in the Heptathlon on Friday beginning at 10am.

Rounding out the action on Thursday was junior captain Dana Fry (Tempe, Ariz./Miss Porter's School), who finished 27th in the 10,000-meter run. She posted an overall time of 40:58.95 to conclude her season.

Action at the ECAC Championships concludes on Friday as Legare kicks off action with the first of the final three events of the Heptathlon beginning at 10am.

Photo of Weld courtesy of RJB Sports Photography.