No. 4 Ithaca Wins Ninth Straight NYSCTC Title

No. 4 Ithaca Wins Ninth Straight NYSCTC Title

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RESULTS

PITTSFORD, N.Y. – The nationally ranked No. 4 Ithaca College women's track & field team claimed its ninth consecutive NYSCTC Championship on Saturday with 229.5 points at St. John Fisher College. Senior Katherine Pitman set the all-time NCAA Division III record in the pole vault, while freshman Alexandria Rheaume was named the Rookie of the Meet and Jennifer Potter and her staff was named Coaching Staff of the Year.

Pitman won the pole vault and cleared 4.28 meters (14 feet, 0.5 inches) to break the previous top DIII mark by .01. She know owns both the all-time best marks in indoor and outdoor, as well as the NCAA Championship meet records for both seasons.

Rheaume ran a leg on the winning 4x100-meter relay team, placed second in the 400-meter dash at 58.47 seconds and was third in the 200-meter dash at 25.61 seconds.

The 4x100 team of Rheaume, sophomore Lusmer Quintana, freshman Amanda Wetmore and junior Amber Edwards won the event in 48.65 seconds.

Edwards would run in the 100-meter hurdles and finished second overall in 15.01 seconds, while Lusmer claimed second in the 100-meter dash at 12.65 seconds and Wetmore was fourth in the 100 in 12.75 seconds. Lusmer also entered to 200 dash and took fifth in 26.93 seconds.

Junior Taryn Cordani won the 5,000-meter run in 17:18.10 to set a new facility record and was also a second place runner in the 1,500-meter run in a time of 4:40.04.

Senior Brandy Smith won the discus by more than meters with a mark of 42.95 meters (140' 11").

Junior Denise Ibarra was a runner-up in the 3,000-meter steeplechase with a time of 10:54.74. Freshman Beth Cripps was another runner-up in the pole vault with a cleared height of 3.65 meters (11' 11.75").

The 4x400-meter relay squad of freshman Jessica Competiello, sophomore Britney Swarthout, freshman Ria Russo and sophomore Viktoria Schultz were third place finishers in 4:05.39.

Swarthout posted a time of 1:06.53 in the 400-meter hurdles to claim sixth. Schultz finished the 400 dash in a time of 1:01.05 to take sixth, while Russo was close behind in seventh at 1:01.65.

Junior Sierra Grazia took fourth in the 1,500 in 4:41.43, while junior Danielle Maffuid secured fourth in the pole vault at 3.35 meters (10' 11.75").

Grazia also took fourth in the 800-meter run in 2:20.01, while sophomore Emilie Mertz finished just ahead of her in third with a time of 2:19.06.

Ithaca went 4-to-6 in the shot put on Saturday. Senior Francesca Boylan was fourth with a mark of 11.51 meters (37' 9.25"), freshman Kendall Wellauer finished fifth at 11.07 meters (36' 4") and junior Caitlin Noonan took sixth with a mark of 11.06 meters (36' 3.5").

Freshman Estelle Yedynak cleared 1.52 meters (4' 11.75") in the high jump to finish fourth, while freshman Caity Schmitz finished fifth overall in the triple jump with a leap of 10.72 meters (35' 2"). Sophomore Jordan Beckley came in at 13.06 seconds in the 100 dash to finish sixth.

Senior Natalie Meyer finished the high jump in seventh place at 1.47 meters (4' 9.75"). Freshman Sarah Rudge clocked in at 4:47.23 in the 1,500 to place seventh. Senior Yvonne Palacios came in seventh in the discus at 35.52 meters (116' 6"). Senior Nicole Razzano posted a mark of 3.05 meters (10') in the pole vault to finish seventh. Senior Kristin Lynn came in fifth in the steeplechase as she crossed the line in 11:34.48.