The men's and women's track and field teams both grabbed 20th place out of more than 50 schools at the Eastern College Athletic Conference Championships last week, despite fielding a combined six competitors. The men's team was paced by a sixth-place finish from Vincent Asante '14 in the 100-meter dash, while the women were paced by Grayce Selig's '11 silver medal in the 1,500-meter run.Selig will be joined by Lucia Capano '11 in representing the Judges at the NCAA Division III Championships in Delaware, Ohio this weekend.

On the men's side, Asante's finish in the 100 was the team's best result of the day. The rookie finished eighth in preliminaries with a time of 11.38 seconds. His time barely qualified him for the final run, for which only the top eight finishers in preliminaries qualified.

In finals, Asante shaved more than 0.20 seconds off of his time, grabbing sixth with a time of 11.17 seconds.

"[Asante] ran really well," Chris Brown '12 said of the rookie. "He's a freshman, so he's got a lot of room for improvement, but he looked great out there," Brown added.

Brown was the other competitor for the men's team, finishing 28th in the 1,500-meter run with a time of 4 minutes, 2.48 seconds.

Selig paced the women's team as she has for much of her career at Brandeis. Selig, who set the school record in the 1,500 with a time of 4:28.72 last year when she placed fourth at the 2010 NCAA Division III Championships, ran her best time this season at ECACs, finishing in 4:30.62.

"She looked pretty good and pretty strong out there," Brown said of Selig's race.

"It was a little rainy, so it wasn't perfect weather, but it was an exciting race and it lowered her time for Nationals," Capano added.

Capano had the next-best finish for the Judges, grabbing sixth in the triple jump with a distance of 11.37 meters.

"It was a pretty good jump-a good average to have," Capano said of the jump.

Kim Farrington '13 also competed in the triple jump, finishing 14th with a distance of 10.72 meters.

Brandeis' final competitor was Kate Warwick '12, who finished seventh in the 5,000-meter run with a time of 17:53.77.

With the exceptions of Selig and Capano, ECACs was the team's final meet of the season. Both the men's and women's squads will graduate several key members, including Paul Norton '11, a 2009 All-American in cross country, and Selig, who holds the Brandeis record in both the 1,500-meter run and the mile. Despite losing key members, Brown said that he was optimistic that the team will improve next year.

"We have lots of room for improvement," he said. "I improved a lot this season, and hopefully the sophomores can make a big jump next year as well. We have a big [incoming] freshman class next year, and hopefully a few of them will step up. As long as we keep working, we should get back to nationals."

At Nationals, Selig will compete in both the 1,500-meter run, in which she is seeded eighth, and the 5,000 meter-run, in which she is seeded 15th. Capano will compete in the triple jump and heads into the competition seeded 19th out of 24 competitors.