Results
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – The Concord University women's track & field team placed 10th at the Mountain East Conference Indoor Championships that wrapped up Monday at the Cline Indoor Track Complex.
CU scored tallied 13 points. Charleston won the meet with 178.5 points.
On Monday, freshman
Cassidy Hammonds broke the school record in the triple jump with a mark of 10.84 meters, eclipsing the old school record that was set by Sherrice Williams in 2014. She finished fifth in the event. It was Hammonds' third program record at the MEC Indoor Championships after she scored 2,967 points in the pentathlon Sunday, shattering her own school record by more than 300 points.
Additionally, Hammonds' long jump mark of 5.42 meters in the pentathlon portion of the meet was 0.06 meters better than Williams' mark of 5.36 from 2014.
The Mountain Lions picked up two points in the 4x400-meter relay as the quartet of Hammonds, junior
Emma Jenkins, freshman
Jenna Webb and sophomore
Izzy Williams were seventh in a time of 4:14.42.
Junior
Emma Jenkins was 10
th in the mile in a career-best time of 5:25.71. Freshman
Kate Kelly (5:40.53) and sophomore
Sara Turner (5:42.70) both ran personal-record times as well as they finished 13
th and 14
th, respectively.
Freshman
Kendall Lilly and sophomore
Lilly Jackson both cleared 1.40 meters in the high jump to place 12
thand 15
th, respectively.
In the 3,000-meter run, senior
Madison Cornett was 13
th with a time of 10:58.53. Junior
Katy Walkup came through in 11:07.69 to place 15
th.
Concord opens the outdoor season March 14-15 at the Myrtle Beach Collegiate Challenge in South Carolina.
