2010-11 Season Review

2010-11 Swarthmore Women's Track & Field 


2011 Centennial Medal Winners


Indoor Season (6th at Centennials)

Kenyetta Givans ’12 finished in ninth place in 55 meter hurdles at the NCAA Division III Indoor Track & Field Championships to cap off one of the top individual seasons in recent program history.Givans crossed the finish line in a time of 8.34 at the national preliminaries, missing the finals and All-America status by just .06 seconds.  At the Centennial Conference Championships, she defended her gold medal in the 55 meter hurdles, crossing the finish line in a school-record time of 8.29, while also earning a bronze medal in the 55 meter dash with a personal-best time of 7.29. For her efforts, she was named the USTFCCCA Women’s Track Athlete of the Year for the Mideast Region, becoming the first Swarthmore student-athlete to receive the honor since Imo Akpan ’02 in 2002.

As a team, the women finished in sixth place at the Centennial Conference Championships, improving by one place upon last year’s result.
Swarthmore earned four medals in total at the Championships, including Givans’ double-haul, as Rebecca Hammond ’13 took silver in the 800 meter dash with a time of 2:22.07 and Chelsea Hicks ’14 picked up bronze in the triple jump with a jump of 10.56m, which ranks sixth in program history.


Outdoor Season (6th at Centennials)

Five Centennial Conference medalists, three new school records and one national qualifier highlighted a sensational season for the women’s track-and-field team.

Kenyetta Givans ’12 followed up her exceptional indoor track-and-field season with a possibly even stronger outdoor campaign, earning gold medals in the 100-meter (14.73) and 400-meter (1:03.15) hurdles and breaking the school record in both events. Givans was named the 2011 Centennial Conference Most Outstanding Women’s Track Performer of the Meet, the first Swarthmore athlete to earn the recognition since Imo Akpan ’02.

Rebecca Hammond ’13 toppled the school record in the 800 meters at the Swarthmore Last Chance Meet with a time of 2:13.44, qualifying for the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championship Meet for the first time in her young career. Hammond shone at the Centennial meet, earning a gold medal in the 4x800 meter relay— teaming up with Katie Gonzalez ‘12 Hannah Rose ’12 and Stephanie Beebe ’12 to win by a convincing two seconds (9:23.18)—and a silver in the 1,500-meters, finishing in a time of 4:42.20 and ranking second all-time.