Results
SALEM, Va. – The Concord University women's track and field team opened up the 2019-20 indoor season with several strong performances Saturday afternoon at the Bast-Cregger Invite at Roanoke College.
Freshman
Gretchen Mills started her collegiate track career by winning the mile run with a time of 5:39.18. Junior
Kate Golinsky also registered a top-10 finish as she came through in 6:31.65, good enough for eighth.
The Mountain Lions got a runner-up finish from junior
Josea Smith in the 600-meter dash as she clocked a time of 1:48.01. Meanwhile, sophomore
Briana Parsons was 11
th in a time of 2:02.10. In other middle distance action, sophomore
Jada Strachan powered to a time of 2:31.17 in the 800-meter run to take third. Redshirt freshman
Jerell Strachan placed fifth in the 400-meter dash with a time of 1:03.37.
Together, Mills, Smith, Ja. Strachan and Je. Strachan placed second in the 4x400-meter relay with a time of 4:16.83.
Senior
Autumn Thomas collected a pair of top-10 finishes. Thomas finished fifth in the 200-meter dash with a time of 27.37 seconds while sprinting 46.21 seconds in the 300-meter dash to place seventh.
Junior
Kiersten Shrader was 12
th in the 60-meter dash with a showing of 8.33 seconds while she came through in 28.47 seconds to finish 14
th in the 200-meter dash.
On Friday in the pentathlon, senior
Linda Ault scored 1,478 points to place ninth in the five-event competition.
Freshman
Maggie Thompson placed ninth in the triple jump (9.84 meters) while finishing 15
th in the long jump (4.58 meters).
CU will be off until January 19 when it competes at the JDL Kickoff Classic in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Â
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