{"id":7006,"date":"2009-05-04T14:46:25","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T18:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batesviews.net\/?p=5907"},"modified":"2016-01-14T12:09:31","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T17:09:31","slug":"bobcat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2009\/05\/04\/bobcat\/","title":{"rendered":"Bobcat of the week: Izzy Alexander &#039;09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2009\/05\/72alexander-6409.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"180\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2009\/05\/72alexander-6409.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"72alexander-6409\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bates senior Izzy Alexander (Harvard, Mass.) broke the New England Division III Women&#8217;s Track and Field Championship meet record in the 400-meter hurdles on Saturday at Springfield College, winning the event in 1:01.78 and slicing 0.18 seconds off of the previous set by Springfield&#8217;s Beth Bowler in 1998. Alexander&#8217;s time also lowered her own Bates outdoor record in the event by 0.13 seconds. She was 1.82 seconds ahead of runner-up Alice Wisener of Middlebury.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Alexander&#8217;s effort highlighted the Bobcats day at the meet, in which the team finished ninth for the third year in a row. The Bobcats scored 40.5 points, well ahead of 10th-place Brandeis (25) among 26 point-scoring teams.<\/p>\n<p>Also at the meet, Alexander teamed up with senior<strong> <\/strong>Jen Marino (Methuen, Mass.), sophomore Dana Lindauer (Needham, Mass.) and senior Tara Higgins (Jeffersonville, Vt.) and Alexander placed seventh in a time of 4:07.29.<\/p>\n<p>Next up for the Bobcats is the all-divisions Open New England Championships at UMass-Amherst this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bates senior Izzy Alexander (Harvard, Mass.) broke the New England Division III Women&#8217;s Track and Field Championship meet record in the 400-meter hurdles on Saturday at Springfield College, winning the event in 1:01.78 and slicing 0.18 seconds off of the previous set by Springfield&#8217;s Beth Bowler in 1998.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[1758,8783],"class_list":["post-7006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics","tag-bobcat-of-the-week","tag-track-and-field"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7006"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88659,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7006\/revisions\/88659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}