While most Tufts students will spend winter break celebrating the holidays and recovering from the grind of the fall semester, the women's track team will be hard at work preparing for the indoor season.
Coach Kristen Morwick has given her team a workout program to follow during the upcoming weeks that will keep the runners, throwers and jumpers in shape for the first big meet of the new year — the Tufts Invitational on Saturday, Jan. 16.
"We are all heading home after finals," senior co-captain Andrea Ferri said. "But we all have to do conditioning stuff — weight lifting, running, all of those things, to make sure that we're prepared once the season starts. We're all going to work hard, and everyone is going to be anxious to see how that pays off once we get back to campus."
The Jumbos will be back on the Hill on Jan. 11, more than a week before many of their classmates head back to campus for the start of the spring semester. Aside from the home meet, Tufts will run in the Dartmouth Relays on Jan. 8 and Jan. 10.
But that early return could benefit the team because it will be able to focus entirely on getting ready to host the Invitational, rather than having to balance its practice time with a hefty workload.
"We're all going to be excited for that first race, and it'll be good to be able to devote time just to getting ready for the start of the season," Ferri said.
