Andrews off to strong start in Texas

Local resident Kaitlyn Andrews is enjoying a fine freshman year at Stephen F. Austin State University in Texas as a member of the track and field team and in the classroom. The 18-year-old Acton High School graduate recently recorded personal-best throws in the shot put to place second on the podium amongst two seniors at the Southland Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships at the University of Houston. She earned all-conference honours by improving her distance with every toss of the put-- 14.02m, 14.18m, 14.64m, foul, 14.67m and lastly 14.70m, which surpassed her previous best throw of 14.59m set at last year's Penn Relays. Andrews also made the Dean's List academically in her first semester of the school's kinesiology program.