Track & Field Overview

Outdoor Head Coach: Tina Lee
Phone: 413-538-2501

Indoor Head Coach: Beth Somerset

The Mount Holyoke College track and field program has a tradition of sending athletes to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III Championships, especially for sprints, throws and middle distance races. The indoor track and field season stretches from mid-November through mid-March. Training starts in November, followed by some light competition in December. Team members return in mid-January, attending meets through early March. The program has produced four All-Americans, and has sent hundreds of athletes to post-season competition, which includes New England, ECAC and NCAA championships.

During the 2003-2004 season, 12 school records were broken and the team finished sixth at the Division III New England Championships, where 11 different athletes earned All-New England honors. Seniors Langhan Dee and Johanna Thomas advanced to the NCAA Division III Championships, where each earned All-American status: Dee, the 2004 New England Track Athlete of the Year, placed second in the 400-meter dash, and Thomas finished eighth in the 1,500-meter run.

Training for outdoor track and field begins in mid-February, with the first meet scheduled on the last Saturday in March. The team competes against Williams College, Bates College, Bowdoin College and other Division III schools, as well as New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) schools, such as Wheaton College and Smith College. The regular season ends on the last weekend in April, and three additional meets are attended by qualifying athletes.

The team was named Conference Champion in 1995 and runner-up in 1996. The program has produced numerous All-Conference athletes and six All-Americans, including Amanda Salb '99, a two-time National Champion in the Shot Put. Sprinter Langhan Dee '04 was the 2002 New England Champion and the 2003 ECAC Champion in the 400-meter dash and competed in this event at the National Championships for three straight years. Leah Serinsky '05 was named NEWMAC Champion in the 10,000-meter run for two years in a row, and Johanna Thomas '04 earned NEWMAC Champion status in the 1,500-meter run and placed second in the 800-meter run at the 2004 championship. 

As a Mount Holyoke scholar-athlete, you are driven to excel in the athletic arena as well as the classroom and laboratory. The discipline, sense of accomplishment, and competitive edge that you bring to your sport resonate through every channel of your intellectual life.

The desire to achieve -- it's all part of the mind-body connection.