Feb. 3, 2013
Complete Results
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Junior Emma Slattery broke the five-minute barrier in the mile (4:55.83, PR) to qualify for her third ECAC event on the season to lead the women's track and field team at the Giegengack Invitational this weekend. The meet, hosted by Yale, was held this past Friday and Saturday at Coxe Cage.
Slattery posted SJU's only ECAC-qualifying time of the weekend as she took over five seconds off of her previous personal-record time of 5:01.14 in the mile, good for a second-place finish.
In the 60m hurdles, sophomore Kayla Charles won her heat and posted the fastest time of all competitors in 9.04 en route to a third-place overall finish (9.10) in the event. Senior Francesca D'Angelo placed fifth (9.27) for SJU.
The four members of the 4x400m relay team that set a new school record last weekend at the Penn State National Invitational all contributed once again this weekend for the Hawks, this time with individual performances. In the 400m dash, junior Katie Pratt took fifth (57.35, PR) while freshman Dannah Hayward recorded an eighth-place finish (58.12, PR). The 500m dash saw freshman Marina Rufo good for an eighth-place finish (1:19.21, PR) while junior Jaclyn Kogut led all Hawks in the 800m run (2:16.89, PR), good for fifth place.
Junior Elizabeth Barrett finished behind Kogut for a sixth-place finish (2:17.30) in the 800m run while sophomore Taylor Oskowiak finished eighth (2:23.20, season-best time).
The 1000m run saw freshman Sara Radzwilka take fourth (3:06.37, PR) and classmate Emily Chaundy round out the top ten (3:12.58, PR) in the event. In the mile, senior captain Sara Walker checked in with a tenth-place finish (5:11.39, season-best time).
Juniors Erin James (10:09.23) and Hannah Fuller (10:22.71) continued their dominance in the 3000m run with fourth- and fifth-place finishes.
Junior Emily Chappell took silver in the 5000m run (18:17.97, PR) while classmate Darcy O'Connor recorded an eighth-place finish (19:44.20, season-best time) in the event. Chappell crushed her previous personal-record time in the 5000m run, set just three weeks ago at Princeton's Quad Meet, by over 26 seconds.
In the 4x400m relay, Hayward, Charles, Kogut and Pratt clocked in at 3:54.72 for a third-place finish. The DMR team of Walker, freshmen Jenna DeAngelo and Tess Doggett, and Oskowiak ran the event in 12:35.46, good for a sixth-place finish.
Sophomore Brianna Hunt led all jumpers with a second-place finish in the high jump (1.65m, 5' 5"). Senior captain Hannah Boyce finished just behind Hunt in third (1.65m, 5' 5") while Charles rounded out the top ten for SJU with a ninth-place finish (1.50m, 4' 11").
Senior captain Genevieve Ruppel won her flight in the long jump en route to a seventh-place finish (5.24m, 17' 2 1/2"). Charles took ninth (5.14m, 16' 10 1/2") while sophomore Gabriella Becattini tied for 10th (5.07m, 16' 7 3/4"). Sophomore Kathryn Polaski rounded out the jumps for SJU with an eight-place finish (10.73m, 35' 2 ½") in the triple jump.
The Hawks will compete in one additional meet, the Rider-Lafayette Invitational in New York, N.Y., before heading to the Atlantic 10 Conference Championships on the weekend of February 16-17.
