Centennial Conference Silver Anniversary Release
HAVERFORD, Pa. – The Centennial Conference is celebrating 25 years as one of the elite small college athletic conferences in the country with the announcement of its Silver Anniversary teams. With criteria selected by conference officials, the Silver Anniversary teams are designed to highlight the best of the best over the conference's first quarter-century.
For inclusion on a Silver Anniversary team, a student must have a degree from their institution and meet one of the following qualifications:
- Three-time or four-time first-team All-Centennial performer
- Two-time Centennial Conference Player of the Year
- First-team All-America AND two-time first-team All-Centennial performer
- Two-time All-America (first, second, or third team)
For individual sports such as swimming and track & field, the accomplishments must have occurred in the same event.
On Thursday, the Centennial Conference released the list of 27 women's indoor track & field performers who were named to the Silver Anniversary team. The Haverford College women's indoor track & field teams won five Centennial Conference Championships (2004, 2006-10) during a six-year span and have been the conference runner-up on 13 other occasions, making them first or second during 18 of the Centennial Conference's first 25 championship meets. A total of 10 Haverford athletes were named to the Silver Anniversary team from the indoor track & field season.
The Conference was founded in 1981 as the Centennial Football Conference and began competition as an all-sports conference in the fall of 1993. The Conference crowns champions in 24 sports.
Haverford College Women's Indoor Track & Field Silver Anniversary Honorees (by graduation year)
Frances Bourne '97
- Four-time first-team All-Centennial Conference 4x800 relay (1994, 1995, 1996, 1997)
Emily Dorean '97
- Three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference distance medley relay (1995, 1996, 1997)
- Two-time first-team All-Centennial Conference 4x800 relay (1995, 1996)
- 1997 All-American (sixth in 1,500 meters)
Meredith Unger '97
- 1997 All-American (third in 1,500 meters)
- Three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference 1,500 meters (1995, 1996, 1997)
- Three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference distance medley relay (1995, 1996, 1997)
- Two-time first-team All-Centennial Conference 800 meters (1996, 1997)
Rachel Mosher '99
- Two-time 5,000 meter All-American (fifth in both 1998 and 1999)
- Three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference 5,000 meters (1997, 1998, 1999)
Aislinn Sowash '07
- Four-time 55 meter hurdles All-American (second in 2005; third in both 2004 and 2006; sixth in 2007)
- Four-time first-team All-Centennial Conference 55 meter hurdles (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007)
Darian Lunne '09
- Four-time first-team All-Centennial Conference 4x400 relay (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009)
- Three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference distance medley relay (2006, 2008, 2009)
Eliza Reiss '09
- Three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference 4x200 relay (2008, 2009, 2010)
Christina Neilson '11
- 2011 Centennial Conference Outstanding Track Performer
- Four-time first-team All-Centennial Conference 4x200 relay (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011)
Zoe Welch '11
- Four-time first-team All-Centennial Conference 4x200 relay (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011)
Kylie Lipinski '12
- Two-time Centennial Conference Outstanding Field Performer (2011, 2012)