The Elizabethtown College’s men’s and women’s track teams finished off their regular season Saturday, Feb. 16 at the Susquehanna University invitational. The women’s team found their biggest success in field events with a bronze medal in pole vault and a silver in high jump.
Senior Karly Deam took third place in pole vault with a height of 2.91m. Deam is currently ranked second in the Landmark Conference for pole vault. Saturday marked her second consecutive meet in which she set a new personal record.
First-year Kelli Garriott also medaled with a second place finish in high jump at 1.60m. Garriott is ranked first in the Landmark Conference for high jump. Garriott is looking forward to her first experience with the upcoming Landmark Championship.
“I have such a passion for high jump and I hope to contribute points for my team so we can take home the title of Landmark Champion,” Garriott said in an email.
Other notable finishes by the women included junior Jordan Sobolesky’s ninth place finish in long jump. Sobolesky set a personal record at 4.86m. She is currently ranked fifth in the Landmark Conference for long jump.
The women also found success in the 400m dash with a fourth place finish for junior Ashleigh Denault and a sixth place finish for sophomore O’Livia McIntosh. They finished with a time of 1:04.23 and 1:04.59, respectively. Additionally, the women’s 4 x 400m relay finished in fifth place with a time of 4:29.49.
“The team is definitely feeling the effects of the long indoor season, but we always make sure to go out and give our best performance which I believe we were able to do this past weekend,” Sobolesky said in an email.
The men’s team took home one medal, gaining a gold in the 4 x 400m relay. They finished with a time of 3:34.48.
Other notable finishes included a fourth place finish in the high jump by senior Tyler Stephenson and a fourth place finish in the 4 x 200m relay. Stephenson finished with a jump of 1.8 meters; he is currently ranked third in the conference. The relay team finished with a time of 1:34.95.
Sophomore Ean Mann finished fifth in the preliminaries for the 60-meter dash with a time of 7.13. He then took fourth in the finals with a time of 7.14. Mann is currently ranked second in the conference for the 60-meter dash.
Both men’s and women’s teams will compete in the Landmark Championship Saturday, Feb. 23 at Susquehanna.
