Lions Begin Indoor Track & Field Season at Mt. Union

ALLIANCE, Ohio – The Penn State Behrend women's indoor track & field team opened the season at the Mt. Union Toy Drive Collegiate Invitational in the Patterson Field House on Saturday afternoon.

Key Moments:

* Behrend had the top two finishers in a pair of events
* Senior Jenna Shelton (Cabot, PA/Knoch) was first in the 3000m run with a winning time of 11:02.01 and junior Riley Crissman (Bradford, PA/Bradford) was second in 11:07.96
* Sophomore Kelley Giles (North Huntingdon, PA/Norwin), Hanna Drozynski (Stoneboro, PA/Lakeview) went 1,2 in the mile with times of 5:54.98 and 6:02.89, respectively
* Senior Haley Yenchik (Cecil, PA/Canon McMillan) and the third-best height in the pole vault (11-03.75)

Remaining Top Performers
Women

Weight Throw
Myeisha Sanders (Erie, PA/East) – 10^th (42-08.75)

Shot Put
Emily Mischen (Gibsonia, PA/Deer Lakes) – 16^th (31-07.25)

60m Hurdles
Katelyn DeArment (Meadville, PA/Meadville) – 14^th (11.56)

400m
Ashtin Petitt (Youngsville, OH/Youngsville) – 13^th (1:12.19)

800m
Suraihyah Sule (Snellville, GA/Shiloh) – 7^th (2:51.61)

200m
Yenchik – 8^th (28.00)

4x800m relay
Shelton, Crissman, Drozynski, Giles – 2^nd (10:33.77)

4x400m relay
Yenchik, Gabriella Loeffler (Pittsburgh, PA/Baldwin), Petitt, Sule – 5^th (4:27.67)

Next Up:

* The Behrend Lions return to action on Saturday, January 19 at Carnegie Mellon Meet held at the Spire Institute in Geneva, Ohio.