CHESTER, Pa.- The Saint Joseph's women's track and field team had an incredibly strong showing at the Widener Invitational across all event groups. The Hawks had multiple top ten all-time performances, event wins, and personal bests.

FRIDAY NIGHT TRACK EVENTS: 

• The Crimson and Gray had a strong representation in the 5,000m meters with senior Sarah Myers leading a contingency of Hawks with ninth place finish in a time of 18:41.43. Sophomore Lauren Charboneau and junior Alyssa Brinsky both made their collegiate debut at this distance with very strong showings clocking times of 18:44.43 and 18:49.05 respectively. Junior Becca Millar was in next for the Hawks with a time of 18:51.43. Graduate student Gabriella Bamford won the first heat of this event recording a time of 19:34.72, which is close to a minute personal best in this event.

FRIDAY FIELD EVENTS:

• Clare Staudenmeier was ninth overall in the triple jump with a leap 10.27m.  Lily Ferguson was 13^th overall with a leap of 9.85m. 

 
SATURDAY TRACK EVENTS:

• Danielle Juliano led the Hawks with a huge personal best in the 1,500m. Juliano placed sixth overall in a time of 4:46.43. Also setting a new personal best was Katie Sparks, who placed eighth with a time 4:50.40. Graduate Student Shannon Addario was the third runner to leave this meet with a personal best time, knocking close to four seconds off her previous personal best to run a time of 5:14.78.
• The 4x100m narrowly missed breaking the school record with a season-best time of 46.77s. The relay was comprised of Maris Rodriguez, Sydney Rose, Judith Walker, and Jacki Harding.
• Anabella Chin continued to dominate in the hurdles, winning the 100m hurdles in a season best time of 14.57s.
• Kimberly Johnson placed eighth overall in the 400m in a collegiate-best time of 58.98s.
• Rose also dominated in the 100m, winning the race in a time of 12.11s. Walker also snuck into the top ten, placing eighth in a time of 12.53s.
• Tess Crossan had herself a day in the 800m. Crossan placed second in a time of 2:11.08. With this time, the rookie now becomes the third-fastest 800m runner in school history, setting a personal best by three seconds and qualifying her for the ECAC Championships in this event. Ava Curry and Brooke Martin also had strong showings in this event, setting new collegiate-best times of 2:15.82 and 2:16.08, respectively.
• Adding to her dominant performances of the day, Chin grabbed her second ECAC qualification of the season placing third in the 400m hurdles in a time of 1:02.43. This time also moves Chin up to third all-time on the SJU top ten list.
• Harding and Rose went first and second in the 200m with both athletes setting personal bests. Harding notched a time of 24.82s and Rose notched a time of 25.12s. Harding's time improves on her fourth place top ten all time rank while Rose's time now ranks her sixth overall. 

UP NEXT:
The Hawks have a busy week of competition with two meets on the calendar. Select Hawks will be be competing in the Penn Relays which will run from Thursday April 27^th through Saturday April 29^th.  The rest of the team will compete at the Lehigh Covert Classic on Saturday April 29^th.