The men and women’s track and field teams traveled to Raleigh, N.C. this past weekend for the Raleigh Relays. It was a big meet and there were a number of Division I schools in attendance. The competition was a two-day meet that started Friday morning and finished Saturday night.
Three women set new personal records and four women had their performances put them in the top 25 in the country.
Senior Megan Tursi, senior Elaina Nellis and sophomore Gabrielle Yankelevich competed in the steeplechase on Friday morning. Tursi won first place with 11:00.62, which was a personal record by 25 seconds. This time placed her second on the top ten list, third in the country and five seconds off the school record. Nellis came in at 12:35.12 and Yankelevich set a new personal record with 13:27.48. Senior Traci Tempone raced the 10k and finished in 36:22.19, which is currently the second-best time in the country.
There were two women’s 4X800 teams that competed. One team consisted of junior Amelia Tearnan, first-year Brianna Earnshaw, first-year Casey Quinto and senior Laurie Jones. They finished in 9:49.00, which is the fourth-fastest time in the College’s history. The other team, made up of senior Eileen Cody, sophomore Lydia Dearie, and first-years Nicole Ludwig and Nicolette Siermine, finished in 10:28.72. This time put their relay team ninth on the list.
On the field, junior Casey Meier threw 39.95m in javelin and took ninth place overall at the meet. First-year Amanda Porter competed in javelin and the hammer. She threw 37.46m in javelin and is now second on the school’s all-time list behind Meier. She threw 36.06m in the hammer, which was a new personal record.
Senior Monica Loranger, competing against many other Division I schools, pole vaulted 3.20m and earned 14th place overall.
On the men’s team, sophomore Zach Trama and seniors Matt Rever, Brian Layng and Lucas Dayhoff all had performances that ranked in the top 30 in Division III.
Trama took fifth place in Section B in the men’s steeplechase. He ran 9:24.16, which is a new personal record that put him second on the all-time list. This time was the third-fastest time in Division III. Sophomore Ryan Conway also raced the steeplechase and finished in 9:57.48.
Rever ran the 800m in 1:52.92, which gave him 15th place overall.
Dayhoff threw 49.10m in the hammer, which put him in the top 25 in the country and 12.99m in shot put.
The Blue Jays will next travel down the road when they compete at Millerville University on Saturday, April 5.
