Hammonds Named MEC Freshman of the Year, Parker Wins High Jump, Concord Finishes Seventh at MEC Championships

Results

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The Concord University women's track & field team placed seventh at the Mountain East Conference Outdoor Championships that concluded Tuesday at Mylan Park.

Freshman Cassidy Hammonds was named the MEC Freshman of the Year after a dominant three days in northcentral West Virginia.

As a team, Concord scored 57 points. CU just missed sixth-place Glenville State by a point. Individually, Hammonds accounted for 28.25 points as she was also in the mix for MEC Championships MVP that ultimately went to West Virginia Wesleyan's Samantha Cash.

Hammonds won the heptathlon with a school-record point total of 4,635 Monday afternoon. She started the meet by placing second in the javelin throw (33.73 meters). Hammonds was third in the long jump as she eclipsed her own school record with a mark of 5.70 meters Monday. She also set the school record in the 100-meter hurdle trials Monday with a time of 15.07 before settling for seventh place in the event Tuesday, clocking 15.55 seconds.

And in the relays, Hammonds helped CU to a fourth-place finish in the 4x400-meter relay and a fifth-place showing in the 4x100-meter relay. Joining Hammonds on the 4x400-meter relay were graduate student Trina Lewis, freshman Cierra Parker and junior Kalyn Williams. The quartet ran a season-best time of 4:01.88. Meanwhile, the 4x100-meter relay team of Hammonds, Williams and freshmen Kendall Lilly and Jenna Webb clocked 49.80 seconds.

Hammonds wasn't the only big winner for the Mountain Lions on Tuesday, Parker was the MEC Champion in the high jump as she cleared 1.70 meters, establishing a new MEC Championship Meet Record in the process. It was also just 0.01 meters off Parker's school record height.

Graduate student Emily Wallace wrapped up her outstanding career with a fourth-place finish in the 1,500-meter run, clocking 4:40.12. She came back later in the meet to place eighth in the 800-meter run (2:27.12).

Sophomore Meagan Poticher went into the discus ranked 13^th in the MEC, but threw a career-best mark of 35.42 meters to finish seventh and earn two points for CU.

Senior Madison Cornett and junior Katy Walkup occupied 11^th and 12^th in the 5,000-meter run as they ran 19:44.52 and 19:53.60, respectively.

And junior Emma Jenkins was 13^th in the 1,500-meter run in a showing of 5:10.34.

Along with Hammonds winning MEC Freshman of the Year and Cash grabbed MVP, the rest of the MEC Award Winners were Charleston's Brooke Burns (Field Athlete), Charleston's Beth Sykes (Track Athlete) and Charleston's Nick Bias (Coach).