Women’s Track and Field Dominates Home Meet
Both the Penn State Behrend men’s and women’s track and field teams hosted a home meet for the first time in school history. Like the men, the women’s team won the quad meet.
ERIE, Pa. – Both the Penn State Behrend men's and women's track and field teams hosted a home meet for the first time in school history. Like the men, the women's team won the quad meet.
On the track, the Lions were led by Victoria Harwood (Fair Haven, NJ/Rumson-Fair Haven), Katie Spade (Warren, PA/Warren), and Haley Hughes (Cochranton, PA/Cochranton). The trio of Behrend athletes each had individual wins with ECAC qualifying times. Harwood won the 400m at 59.72, Spade won the 800m with a time of 2:19.49, and Hughes continued her undefeated season in the 3000m steeplechase at 11:48.43.
Harwood also won two other events for the Lions. The senior was a winner in the 200m at 26.60 and tied teammate Nicole Teribery (Bradford, PA/Bradford) in the pole vault at 3.10m.
Jen Gibson (Hookstown, PA/South Side) had an outstanding performance in the 100m for Behrend. Gibson won the event with a time of 13.75. Catie Bertges (Erie, PA/Collegiate Academy) and Alex Paget-Blanc (Paris, France/Aelene Boucher) exceled on the track as well. Bertges won the 1500m at 5:07.36 with Paget-Blanc winning the 100m hurdles at 17.48.
In the field, Corinne Conto (Bruin, PA/Karns City Area) and April McDermott (Atco, NJ/Hammonton) each won multiple events. Conto took first in both the long jump and the triple jump with distances of 4.98m and 10.48m, respectively. McDermott was a triple-winner in the discus, hammer, and javelin. McDermott hit 38.38m in the discus to qualify for ECAC's. She reached 35.05m in the hammer throw and 29.95m in the javelin.
Georgia Kennedy (Eighty Four, PA/Ringgold) rounded out the top performers with a first place finish in the shot put at 10.07m.
The Lions will be back in action on Friday and Saturday for the Mason Dixon Conference Championships at Christopher Newport University.