Cadets Wrap Up Weekend Competition

Saturday, April 22

Princeton, NJ

12 p.m.

Army West Point

Larry Ellis Invitational

Photo by: Don Felice

Cadets Wrap Up Weekend Competition

April 22, 2017 | Women's Track and Field

PRINCETON, N.J. – The Army West Point women's track and field team split their squad with some competing at the Larry Ellis Invitational and the other half competing at the UAlbany Spring Classic.

ARMY HIGHLIGHTS AND GAME NOTES

LARRY ELLIS INVITATIONAL
TRACK EVENTS

In the 100-meter dash Whidney Desormo placed 10th clocking a time of 12.38s.
First-year Lynne Mooradian placed seventh in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 1:02.49.
Bethany Nunnery was atop the podium in the 3000-meter run crossing the finish line in 9:57.05.
The 4x400 meter relay team of Haley Watson, Kate Sanborn, Cassie Mundekis and Samantha Coletti finished fifth with a time of 3:55.35.

UALBANY SPRING CLASSIC
TRACK EVENTS

In the 800-meter run Hannah Dienes placed sixth with a time of 2:20.19. She was joined by Kate Sanborn in eighth with a time of 2:20.89.

FIELD EVENTS

Madeleine Schneider placed second in the pole vault with a height of 3.40 meters.
In the shot put, Briyah Brown captured second with a distance of 14.24 meters. She is joined by Carrie Wasdyke (12.47m) in seventh and Kamryn Brinson (11.67m) in eighth.
Brown continued her success placing sixth in the discus with a toss of 37.52 meters.
Brinson was atop the podium in the hammer with a throw of 50.84 meters. She is joined by Rebecca Cousens in fourth with a distance of 47.90 meters.

COACHES CORNER
"We took a small group to compete at Princeton this weekend. The distance runners highlighted last night and the sprints and hurdles were our main events today. We had some nice performances across the board and some really strong competitive efforts. The competition at this meet was pretty stiff so we had to fight to make finals and win events. While we did not have all that many improvements on our season best marks we did have a few significant results worth highlighting."

Cassie Mundekis put together a solid 800-meter race. She is slowly inching her way toward our school record. Her confidence is growing and that will serve her well in the coming seeks. Coletti eclipsed our school record in nthe steeplechase. We could see that result coming for a few weeks so it was nice to see her put together a more aggressive race. Mooradian was solid for us once again. She is setting herself up for a nice breakthrough in both hurdle races sometime soon. All in all we faced a higher level of athlete this weekend and I thought our people raised their game to a new level. We are relying on freshmen an dsophomores in most events and they are making the right competitive adjustments at the right time of the year. Now we can go have some fun at the Penn Relays and they test our fitness at the conference championship in two weeks."

UP NEXT:
The Black Knights will compete in the Penn Relays April 27-29.

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