The SU women’s indoor track and field team wrapped up its season with a second-place finish Sunday at the 2016 PSAC Indoor Championships at Edinboro University. The team finished 18 points behind Slippery Rock University for the conference title.
SU claimed its eighth trophy for a Top 2 finish in the last nine years. All of those trophies were claimed under current coach Dave Osanitsch. SU has won six PSAC championships and has posted three Top 3 finishes since 2008.
The Raiders grabbed 11 individual place-winning performances on Sunday, matching Saturday’s total to claim 22 winning performances on the weekend. SU closed out the meet with its only event championship of the day, beating out Slippery Rock University in a photo finish.
Freshman Allison King, senior Megan Lundy and sophomores Kiana Tucker and Lindsay Sheehan, ran a 3:54.57 in the 4x4 relay. All four women were place-winners earlier in the day. In the 200-meter event, King won the first of the two final heats with a time of 25.40 seconds. Sheehan was directly behind her with a time of 25.58 seconds. Their performances were good enough for fifth and sixth place overall. In the 400-meter event, Lundy ran third with a time of 58.40 seconds and Tucker was there as well with a fourth-place finish of 58.47 seconds.
Lundy wraps up her career with four All-PSAC finishes in the 400-meter in as many years. She won conference titles as a freshman and anchored SU to three straight conference titles in the 4x4 relay.
Junior Casey Norton set a lifetime personal record in a distance event for the second straight day, running a six-second personal best in the mile with a time of 5:00.09. She finished one second behind California University of Pennsylvania’s Alex Zanella for the conference title. In the 3K, Abby Shafer finished fifth overall. She ran a time of 10:10.39 in the event.
Sophomores Danielle Sciremammano and Kayla Lawson were extremely successful in the 60-meter hurdles, placing second and sixth, respectively. Sciremammano set a lifetime personal best by qualifying in 8.75 seconds on Saturday. Lawson had an outstanding finals performance, as well. Lawson broke 9 seconds for the first time in her collegiate career with a time of 8.98 seconds.
Junior Sarah Hunt claimed another All-PSAC jump with a second-place finish in the triple jump with a personal record of 38 feet, 11 inches. Hunt finished in second place behind Bloomsburg University’s Kaylee Caruso. Junior Tamara Ovejera finished second in the shot put on a throw of 45 feet, .25 inches and registered her second Top 4 finish in as many years.
Sophomore Erin Doherty also made the awards podium for the second straight year with an eighth place finish with a throw of 40 feet, 11 inches.
The Raiders finished in second place, beating out third-place Edinboro University by 46 points. SU is currently awaiting the announcement of national qualifiers, which will be announced soon. SU is expecting Hunt to qualify for NCAA Indoor Championships in the long jump.
200
5. Allison King 25.40
6. Lindsay Sheehan 25.58
400
3. Megan Lundy 58.40
4. Kiana Tucker 58.47
Mile
2. Casey Norton 5:00.09 (NCAA 'P')
Erika Huffman 5:31.58
Abbey Farrell 5:40.70
3K
5. Abby Shafer 10:10.39
Caity Reese 10:21.45
Jackie Kinkead 10:32.50
Bryanna Dissinger 10:39.99
Casey Norton 10:40.23
60H
2. Danielle Sciremammano 8.79 (NCAA 'P')
6. Kayla Lawson 8.98
4x4
1. Kiana Tucker, Lindsay Sheehan, Allison King, Megan Lundy 3:54.57
High Jump
Kali Dawson 5' 1 ¼" (1.56m)
Madelyne Pasteka 4' 9 ½" (1.46m)
Triple Jump
2. Sarah Hunt 38' 11" (11.86m) (NCAA 'P')
Abby Wagner 36' 9 ½" (11.21m)
Abby Martin 34' 11 ¾" (10.66m)
Shot Put
2. Tamara Ovejera 45' ¼" (13.72m) (NCAA 'P')
8. Erin Doherty 40' 11" (12.47m)
Sabrina Johnson 37' 1 ¾" (11.32m)
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