{"id":60918,"date":"2013-01-16T17:06:52","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T22:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=60918"},"modified":"2016-02-02T15:46:53","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T20:46:53","slug":"morning-sentinel-track-spofford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2013\/01\/16\/morning-sentinel-track-spofford\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Sentinel profiles sprinter Spofford ’15, ‘fast and getting faster’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maine’s Morning Sentinel<\/em> profiles record-holding sprinter Isaiah Spofford ’15 of Waterville, who’s ready to make the leap to one of the longer sprint distances this year.<\/p>\n

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Record-holding sprinter Isaiah Spofford ’15 will try the 400 meters this spring.
Photo by Tom Leonard ’78.<\/p><\/div>\n

Spofford holds the Bates record in the 60-meter dash, 7.09 seconds. While the 60-meter event is only a few years old, head coach Al Fereshetian points out that Spofford’s 55 time would be 10th-best in Bates history.<\/p>\n

The point, Fereshetian tells reporter Travis Lazarczyk<\/a><\/strong>, is that Spofford is fast and getting faster. “Our expectations are very high. He put in a fantastic fall of training.”<\/p>\n

Spofford is runninf the 60- and 200-meter sprints this winter, then will add the 400 during the outdoor season. “Ever since I was a sophomore in high school, people have told me I’ll ease into the 400,” Spofford tells Lazarczyk. “This year I think it’s going to happen.”<\/p>\n