Indoor Season Highlights
As the indoor track season comes to a close, we want to take a moment to recap the outstanding indoor performances before the outdoor season gets underway. For many of our Haute Volée, the indoor season began at the UW Invitational. A rust-buster meet that yielded fast times and personal records, the UW Invite was a fantastic opener for many. From there the season took off with Haute Volée competing at the Boston Invitational, Spire Indoor Invite and UW Husky Classic. The indoor season culminated to the USATF Indoor Championship, a meet that will surely go down in history. Here are the highlights! Photography credit to Mark Stone.
UW INDOOR PREVIEW
January 18, 2014
Lauren Wallace – 800m 2:05:24 First race of her indoor season/1st place, stellar kick!
UW INVITATIONAL
February 1, 2014
Lauren Fleshman – Mile 4:42:77 First race of her indoor season/2nd place, 45 sec last 300m, Jude with the post-finish welcome.
Amanda Winslow – 3000m 8:56:37 1st place/PR
Lauren Penney – 3000m 8:56:44 2nd place/PR
Christine Babcock -- 3000m 9:08.19 6th place/PR
Bonus: Kate Grace stellar rabbiting in the new shimmel! Oiselle rocked this 3K.
BOSTON INVITATIONAL
February 7, 2014
Amanda Winslow – Mile 4:26:28 – 1st place/PR
Lauren Penney – Mile 4:31:30 – 2nd place/PR
More Kate Grace spot-on rabbiting.
UW HUSKY CLASSIC
February 14, 2014
Kara Foster – 5K 16:01:56
Megan Rolland – 5K 16:34:09 PR First race of her indoor season!
Megan Rolland – Mile 4:53:92 PR
SPIRE INDOOR INVITE
February 14, 2014
Aubrey Moskal – 5K 16:50:25
UW HUSKY CLASSIC
February 15, 2014
Amanda Mergaert – Mile 4:35:90 3rd 2nd race of her indoor season/1st time in front of Oiselle hometown fans!
USATF INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIP
February 15, 2014
Amanda Winslow – 1500m 4:14:38 – 4th Gutsy race, gave it her all!
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