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 Tuesday, the Centennial Conference released the list of 47 women's outdoor track & field athletes who were named to the Silver Anniversary team. The Haverford College women's outdoor track & field was represented by 14 athletes on the Silver Anniversary team. The Fords have won five Centennial Conference Championships during the first 25 years (1995, 2006-2009) and have finished second on eight other occasions.
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 Outdoor Track & Field Silver Anniversary Team (by graduation year)
Meredith Unger '97
- Two-time All-American (second in 3,000 meters in 1997; fourth in 1,500 meters in 1996)
- Two-time first-team All-Centennial Conference 1,500 meters (1995, 1996)
- Two-time first-team All-Centennial Conference 3,000 meters (1995, 1997)
- Two-time first-team All-Centennial Conference 4x800 relay (1995, 1996)
Rachel Mosher '99
- 1999 10,000 meter All-American (8th)
- Four-time first-team All-Centennial Conference 10,000 meters (1996, 1997, 1998, 1999)
- Three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference 5,000 meters (1997, 1998, 1999)
Kate Westfall '99
- Two-time 3,000 meter All-American (third in 1998; fifth in 1999)
- 1999 Centennial Conference Outstanding Performer
- Two-time first-team All-Centennial Conference 3,000 meters (1998, 1999)
Caitlin Kight '03
- Three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference heptathlon (2001, 2002, 2003)
Aislinn Sowash '07
- Four-time 100 meter hurdle All-American (second in 2005; third in 2007; fourth in 2004; seventh in 2006)
- Four-time first-team All-Centennial Conference 100 meter hurdles (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007)
- Two-time first-team All-Centennial Conference 4x400 relay (2005, 2006)
Annick Lamar '08
- Two-time 800 meter All-American (third in 2008, eighth in 2007)
- 2008 Centennial Conference Outstanding Track Performer
- Three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference 4x800 relay (2006, 2007, 2008)
- Two-time first-team All-Centennial Conference 800 meters (2007, 2008)
Sarah Walker '08
- Three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference 4x400 relay (2005, 2006, 2008)
Jessie Belden '09
- Two-time All-American (third in heptathlon and fifth in high jump in 2009)
- Two-time Centennial Conference Outstanding Field Performer (2006, 2009)
- Three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference heptathlon (2006, 2007, 2009)
Aileen Keogh '10
- Three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference 4x400 relay (2007, 2008, 2009)
Mara Miller '10
- Three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference 4x100 relay (2008, 2009, 2010)
Eliza Reiss '10
- Three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference 4x100 relay (2008, 2009, 2010)
Christina Neilson '11
- 2011 Centennial Conference Outstanding Track Performer
- Three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference 4x100 relay (2008, 2009, 2010)
- Two-time first-team All-Centennial Conference 4x400 relay (2008, 2009)
Zoe Welch '11
- Three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference 4x100 relay (2008, 2009, 2010)
Kylie Lipinski '12
- Three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference triple jump (2010, 2011, 2012)