Records Fall on Day One of CC Championships
COLLEGEVILLE, Pa. -- Swarthmore senior Cait Mullarkey and freshman Kenyetta Givans broke school records on the first day of the Centennial Conference Indoor Track & Field Championships Saturday in the Floy Lewis Bakes Field House on the campus of Ursinus College.
Mullarkey (Wilmington, Del. / Ursuline) just missed a medal in the mile run with a personal-best time of 5:02.59. The NCAA provisional-time lowers her school record that she set earlier this year.
In the women’s 55-meter hurdle preliminaries, Givans (Conshohocken, Pa. / Plymouth-Whitemarsh) broke a program record with her time of 8.67. The previous record holder, Catherine Laine, posted her 8.71 time in 1997. Givans will run in the finals tomorrow with hopes of a gold medal.
Senior Bess Ritter (Quaker Hill, Conn. / Waterford) posted a personal-best in the women’s 5,000-meter run with a sixth-place time of 18:08.94.
Garnet pole vaulter Taylor Wuerker '12 (Washington, D.C. / TC Williams) placed fourth overall, reaching to a 2.78 meters.
The women’s distance medley team picked-up the first Garnet medal of the meet with a bronze in 12:38.19. Junior Nyika Corbett (Myrtle Point, Ore. / Myrtle Point) ran the first leg with Givans and Natalie Stone ’09 (Philadelphia, Pa. / Friends Select) completing the middle legs while Mullarkey anchored the final portion of the race.
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Women’s Team Standings
1. Johns Hopkins
2. Haverford
3. Dickinson
4. Ursinus
5. Muhlenberg
6. Swarthmore
7. Gettysburg
8. Bryn Mawr
9. McDaniel
10. F&M
Men’s Team Standings
1. Haverford
2. Ursinus
2. Muhlenberg
4. Gettysburg
5. Johns Hopkins
6. Dickinson
6. F&M
8. McDaniel
9. Swarthmore
The Centennial Indoor Track and Field Championships commence tomorrow morning at 10:30 a.m.