Mundekis Breaks School Record at Patriots

Sunday, February 19

Center Valley, PA

Army West Point

Patriot League Indoor Championships

Mundekis Breaks School Record at Patriots

February 19, 2017 | Women's Track and Field

Results

BOSTON, Mass. – The Army West Point women's track and field team finished fifth with 109 points at the Patriot League Indoor Championships on Sunday.

Bucknell won the meet scoring 180 points, they were followed by Boston U with 163.33 points, Navy (112.33) and Lehigh (110.33). Over the weekend the Black Knights brought home three gold medal finishes, two silvers and six bronze medals.

ARMY HIGHLIGHTS AND GAME NOTES

TRACK EVENTS:

The day kicked off with the women's mile where sophomore Abby Halbrook placed second with a time of 4:57.43. She was followed by freshman Samantha Coletti in seventh who crossed the line in 5:00.61.
First-year Lynne Mooradian came out of the gate strong placing sixth in the 60-meter hurdles recording a time of 8.85s.
In the 60-meter dash, Calli McMullen clocked a third-place time of 7.78s.
Cassie Mundekis captured the first gold of the day in the 800-meter run. She crossed the finish line in 2:08.89 to collect gold.
Coletti finished sixth in the 1000-meter run crossing the finish line with a time of 2:55.73.
In the 200-meter dash McMullen pushed hard to get third, finishing in 24.67s.
Halbrook and Bethany Nunnery cracked the top ten in the 3000-meter run. Halbrook placed third with a time of 9:41.17 and Nunnery placed fifth with a time of 9:49.62.
The distance relay team of Andrea Karlen, Haley Watson, Kajol Masheshwari and Kate Sanborn finished seventh with a time of 12:16.93.
The final event of the day featured a third-place finish by the 4x400 relay team of Mooradian, McMullen, Mundekis and Whidney Desormo who combined for a time of 3:48.92.

FIELD EVENTS:

Sophomore Maddie Schneider led the way in the pole vault placing sixth. She reached a height of 3.50 meters.
Briyah Brown captured gold in the shot put with a toss of 15.15 meters. She was joined by Carrie Wasdyke who was fifth (13.04m) and Lauren Schultz who was ninth (12.28m).
In the triple jump, Tya'tianna Johnson captured tenth with a leap of 11.15 meters.

DIRECTOR OF TRACK AND FIELD/ CROSS COUNTRY MIKE SMITH'S COMMENTS:
"The scoreboard does not reflect the improvement that I have seen in our women's team. We were only four points out of third in this meet and that is something we had hoped to accomplish. The last time we scored over 100 points was at the indoor championships was in 2006. We have come a long way to reach our goals. Having said that, we had some great performances. Brown won the shot put in convincing fashion and McMullen scored two third-place finishes in the 60-meter and 200-meter. Her 200 time is one of the all-time best performances at the academy. Halbrook did work out there today and almost pulled off a win in the mile as she ran really close to the school record in the 3000-meter. Maybe the most outstanding performance came from Mundekis. She repeated as 800-meter champion, broke her own school record in the process and set the Patriot League meet record. What is more, she did it wire to wire. Just a great run from her. We will continue to build toward the future, every single point that we scored today came from the underclassmen. The future is bright for this group, it just takes time to put everything in place to compete at the top of this conference."

UP NEXT:
Army will take place in the Fastrack Last Chance meet in Staten Island, N.Y., on Feb., 25.