KINGSTON, R.I. — 

Indoor track & field season started early for two U.S. Coast Guard Academy cadet-athletes on Thursday night as Tara Jessen (Signal Mountain, Tenn.) and Ella Corritore (Erie, Pa.) competed at the University of Rhode Island's 30th annual season-opening pentathlon. The duo's performances earned them respective finishes of 10th and 11th and shook up a couple of the program's all-time leaderboards in the meantime.

Jessen, the reigning New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Track Athlete of the Year, started her final indoor season by scoring 2,946 points, the second-highest pentathlon performance in program history. The senior captain set a personal best in the long jump, leaping 4.96 meters (16' 3.75") to move up to ninth on the Academy leaderboard, and her 800m performance was second place in the entire meet.

Corritore's collegiate debut was nothing short of impressive, slotting in right behind Jessen in both the meet and on the CGA pentathlon list with 2,929 points. The pentathlon wasn't the only all-time list she cracked, with her hurdle time of 9.48 seconds being third-best all-time; her 1.50m (4' 11") high jump being eighth-best; and her 4.99m (16' 4") long jump being sixth-best.

Both sides of the full Bears track & field team will be in action this Saturday, December 6th, at Boston University's Sharon Colyear-Danville Season Opener.