Kenyetta Givans Earns Two Golds, Breaks School Record to Pace Swarthmore Indoor Track at Centennial Championships
HAVERFORD, Pa. - It was quite a day for sophomore Kenyetta Givans.
Givans earned two golds, taking first place in the women's 55m hurdles (8.44) and women's 55 meter dash (7.47) - breaking the school record and earning an NCAA provisional time in the 55m hurdles - to pace the Swarthmore College indoor track teams at the Centennial Conference Championships from Haverford College on Saturday evening.
The Swat women's 4x800 relay team - consisting of senior Lauren DeLuca, senior Mariel Feigen, sophomore Margret Lenfest, and freshman Rebecca Hammond - also earned a medal and made history, taking second-place with a school-record time of 9:41.47.
Givans broke the school record in the 55m hurdles.
As a team, the Garnet women finished in seventh place with 44 points.
The Swarthmore College men's team took eighth place, highlighted by sophomore Daniel Ly's fourth-place finish in the men's triple jump. Ly had a season-best jump of 43'7.75" to just miss a top-three finish.
Back on the women's side, DeLuca turned in a sixth in the 800 meter (2:21.73).
Sophomore Ogechi Irondi earned a top five finish in the women's shot put with a throw of 34'00.25", which places her sixth on the College's all-time list.
Sophomore Nicole Cox took seventh place in the women's high jump with a leap of 4'7".
In the triple jump, freshman Hana Lehmann made an impressive debut, finishing seventh with a jump of 32'6.50"