Lucia Capano '11 has competed in numerous events during her time on the track and field team, rotating between sprints, hurdles and jumping. While Capano has experienced success in all of these events, she has soared highest in the triple jump, in which she will compete this weekend at the NCAA Division III Championships in Delaware, Ohio. Capano finished sixth in the triple jump last weekend at the Eastern College Athletic Conference Championships, jumping a distance of 11.37 meters.

"It was a pretty good jump-a good average to have," Capano said of her jump at ECACs. "It was a good jump, but it wasn't as good as my jump that qualified me for nationals," she added, referring to her distance of 11.64 meters at the Brown University Springtime Classic on May 1.

Capano, who found out that she qualified for NCAAs less than 24 hours after graduating, said that she was ecstatic to end her career at nationals.

"I'm really excited," she said. "It's an amazing way to end your career, and I'm really excited for the opportunity."

Capano will head into the meet as the 19th seed out of 24 competitors, but she said that she hasn't set very difficult goals for herself in the competition.

"[My goal is] to not come in last," she laughed, adding, "It should be really interesting and I'm really just excited to be there."

Capano said that she has enjoyed her time on the team, and she will miss competing next year.

"I'm going to need to start training on my own rather than with the team-it's going to be a big adjustment."

When asked if that meant that she was going to keep jumping, Capano laughed.

"My knees would kill me," she said. "I'll probably just do some yoga.