Results
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. – The Concord University women's track & field team placed 17
th at the Myrtle Beach Collegiate Challenge Friday and Saturday at Doug Shaw Memorial Stadium.
Division I Appalachian State was the team champion. CU was tenth among non-Division I teams in scoring.
Concord's top finisher was senior
Madison Cornett in the 10,000-meter run. She was the runner-up in the event in a time of 39:11.20 as she clocked a personal-record time. Sophomore
Sara Turner also notched a career-best time in the 10,000-meters by coming through in 41:27.02 to place seventh. Fellow sophomore
Piper Doughton was 14
th in a showing of 44:57.72.
Junior
Emma Jenkins was third in the open 800-meter run in a personal-record time of 2:27.03. She added a second career-best time of 5:01.30 in the 1,500-meter run and finished 16
th.
Fellow junior
Katy Walkup was eighth in the 5,000-meter run as she missed a career-best time by three seconds, stopping the timer at 18:46.68. In other distance action, sophomore
Charlotte McGinnis was 13
th in the 3,000-meter steeplechase with a time of 13:28.60.
CU's three relays were stellar. The 4x200-relay team of freshman
Cassidy Hammonds, freshman
Cierra Parker, graduate student Trina Lewis and sophomore
Izzy Williams ran 1:47.25 to place eighth. The Mountain Lions combined for a time of 11:48.27 in the 4x800-meter relay with senior
Baylee Bentley, senior
Kaylee Dixon, McGinnis and senior
Erin O'Sullivan making up the squad. And Concord was 13
th in the 4x400-meter relay with a time of 4:24.71. The squad was made up of freshman
Megan Canterbury, Jenkins, Parker and Williams.
Parker cleared 1.60 meters in the high jump as she placed 14
th and missed tying the existing school record by 0.03 meters. Hammonds finished 17
th in the triple jump with a mark of 10.47 meters. Junior
Lilly Jackson opened up the javelin season with a toss of 29.75 meters as she placed 19
th. Hammonds threw 29.65 meters in the javelin, finishing 20
th.
Freshman
Kendall Lilly went over a personal-record height of 1.45 meters in the high jump.
And rounding out the top finishers for the Mountain Lions was Hammonds in the 200-meter dash (19
th/26.34 seconds) and Canterbury in the 400-meter hurdles (20
th/1:19.66).
The Mountain Lions return to the Carolinas when they compete at the 49er Classic March 20-22 in Charlotte.
