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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><b>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – </b>May 13, 2012</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; ">Contact – John Carchedi (401) 865 1245</p>
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<b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5" face="'Times New Roman'">Providence College Women’s Track and Field Competes at ECAC Championships</font></b></p>
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<b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" face="'Times New Roman'">Friars tune-up for NCAA First Round.</font></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><b>PRINCETON, N.J. –</b> With much of their number preparing for next weekends NCAA East Regionals, three members of the Providence College women’s track and field team took part in the ECAC
Championships, hosted by Princeton University.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; ">Junior Sam Roecker (Charlton, N.Y.) led the PC contingent in the 5000-meters, finishing ninth in a 28-runner field. Her time of 16:44.36 was less than .58 off of her personal best at the distance
(16:43.78) and her fastest clocking of the campaign.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; ">Roecker was trailed by sophomore teammate Grace Thek (Melbourne, Australia), who crossed in 16:59.76, and senior Friar Mary Kate Champagne (Plattsburg, N.Y.), who clocked in at 17:15.71.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; ">Both the Providence men’s and women’s teams will now travel to Jacksonville, Florida for the first round of the national championships, the East Regionals. Competition begins on May 24 and extends
to May 26<sup>th</sup>.</p>
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<b>- Go Friars -</b></p>
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<div style="margin:0pt"><font size="2" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">John Carchedi<br>
Athletic Media Relations</span></font></div>
<div style="margin:0pt"><font size="2" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">Providence College
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1 Cunningham Square</span></font></div>
<div style="margin:0pt"><font size="2" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">Providence, RI 02918</span></font></div>
<div style="margin:0pt"><font size="2" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt"> jcarched@friars.providence.edu</span></font></div>
<div style="margin:0pt"><font size="2" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">401-865-1245 (o)</span></font></div>
<div style="margin:0pt"><font size="2" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">617-276-6893 (c)</span></font></div>
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