The 2014 Oglethorpe women's track and field squad starts the season hoping to improve on last season's fifth-place conference finish, returning a team with a good balance of veteran leadership and exciting newcomers.

The Oglethorpe women's distance team smashed the previous school medley record by 25 seconds to highlight the Tiger Indoor Invitational Saturday in Sewanee, Tenn.

Junior transfer Dierdre Duncan, making her Oglethorpe debut, set a new meet record, a first for an Oglethorpe athlete, while breaking another school record, leading a parade of standards falling as the track team opened the season Sunday night at the E...