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Navy's Forsythe and Andrews Recognized by the ECAC

Loni Forsythe - ECAC Track Athlete of the Week; Kirsten Andrews - ECAC co-Field Athlete of the Week

	Kirsten Andrews helped win four events last Saturday in Annapolis

March 29, 2007

CENTERVILLE, Mass. - Navy women's track & field seniors Loni Forsythe (Chattanooga, Tenn.) has been named the ECAC Track Athlete of the Week, while classmate Kirsten Andrews (New Holland, Pa.) was selected the ECAC co-Field Athlete of the Week, it was announced on Wednesday.

One day prior to the ECAC weekly honors, Forsythe and Andrews were named Patriot League Track Athlete of the Week and Field Athlete of the Week, respectively. During the outdoor season-opening meet last Saturday in Annapolis, the Navy duo combined for five ECAC Championship-qualifying performances.

Forsythe registered one of the best season-opening performances on the track in Navy's program history, registering three ECAC-qualifying marks against American, Colgate, George Mason and Maryland. She opened her afternoon with a first-place time of 11.88 seconds in the 100-meter dash, the second-fastest time in school history and just 0.13-second away from NCAA regional championship qualification. Less than an hour later, she came back to finish second in the 200-meter dash with a time of 24.70 seconds. The clocking tied her for second all-time with Chantelle Nagby's performance during the 2000 campaign. Forsythe also ran the third leg of Navy's 4x100-meter relay that won the event with a showing of 47.91 seconds, the 11th-fastest time in school history.

Andrews joined Forsythe with an impressive showing during the first-outdoor meet of the year. Andrews finished last Saturday with three individual event titles and ran the opening leg of the aforementioned 4x100-meter relay. She met the ECAC qualifying standard in the pole vault with a height of 11'11-3/4" (3.65 meters). Concurrently competing in the long jump, she won that event with a distance of 18'1/2" (5.50 meters). In addition to her performance in the field events, she also met the standard for the ECAC Championship with a time of 14.38 seconds.

The Midshipmen (4-0) return to action this Saturday when they compete in the Service Academy Championship in Lexington, Va.