WORCESTER, Mass. (April 20, 2024) - The Stonehill College women's track and field team placed fifth with 79 points at the Holy Cross Invite at the Hart Field & Track on Saturday afternoon.
FIELD EVENTS
- Junior Madison Gunderway (Cranston, R.I.) finished in eighth place with a throw of 44.71m (146' 8") in the hammer throw, her best throw of this outdoor season and the seventh-best in the Northeast Conference.
- Senior Cassidy Becker (North Attleboro, Mass.) placed fifth in the triple jump with a leap of 10.94m (35' 10.75"), the best jump of her spring and the third-best of her career.
- Sophomore Sydney Cahill (Reading, Mass.) set a personal record in the javelin throw, reaching 10.98m (101' 8") to place fifth in the event. Cahill also placed 13th in the long jump with a leap of 4.97m (16'3.75").
TRACK EVENTS
- Fifth-year Victoria Lombardi (Peabody, Mass.) won the 5000-meter race with a time of 18:42.53, over a minute faster than her last 5000m at UMass to open the spring and her best finish in an event since winning the Suffolk Relays 5000m race on Dec. 3, 2022.
- Freshman Sydney Kalil (Milford, Mass.) placed third in the 5000m run, finishing the race in 18:58.31 to tally eight more points for the Skyhawks.
- Junior Madison Rousseau (Canton, Mass.) finished seventh in both the 100-meter dash and the 100-meter hurdles, finishing the former in 12.64 seconds, a new PR, and the latter in 14.81 seconds.
- Becker also competed in the 100m hurdles, setting a PR in the event with a time of 15.20 seconds to place 10th.
- Senior Kaytlin Encarnacao (Reading, Mass.) placed third in the 400-meter dash with a time of 56.44 seconds. Freshman Madison Stott (Dartmouth, Mass.) finished one spot after Encarnacao, setting a new PR with a time of 57.69 seconds.
- Also competing in the 400m dash was sophomore Grace Tyrrell (Cavendish, Vt.) who also set a PR in the event, crossing the finish line in 59.31 seconds.
- Sophomore Jordan Malloy (Colchester, Conn.) and junior Emma Lawrence (Milford, Mass.) finished back-to-back in the 800-meter run as Malloy placed sixth and set a PR, running the race in 2:13.92 while Lawrence placed seventh in 2:14.05.
- Sophomore Aneka Andrews (McLean, Va.) and freshman Kay Wheelock (Milford, Mass.) both competed in the 400-meter hurdles as Andrew placed fifth in 1:08.41, a new PR, and Wheelock finished in eighth place with a time of 1:18.81.
- Freshman Iasmim De Sousa Vieira (Medford, Mass.) set a new PR in the 1500m race with a time of 5:00.41, coming in 15th place.
- The 4x100 meter relay team of freshman Katie Gibbons (Pembroke, Mass.), freshman Kayla Oakes (Kingston, N.Y.), Encarnacao, and Rousseau came in second place to earn the Skyhawks eight points with a time of 48.29 seconds, finishing just over half a second behind Holy Cross.
NEXT UP
- Stonehill track and field celebrates its senior day at the 15th Annual Skyhawk Invite on Saturday, April 27 at W.B. Mason Stadium in Easton, Mass. for the Skyhawks' lone home meet this year.
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