Recap Courtesy of Marywood Sports Information Department
IMMACULATA, Pa. -- Marywood University won the Atlantic East Conference Women's Track and Field Championship for the first time since 2022 this weekend. The Pacers capture their fourth Atlantic East title. The Pacers' tied or broke five school records at the meet.
Marywood won by 20 points over three-time reigning champion Marymount University. The Pacers finished with 186 points, followed by the Saints' 20. Immaculata University finished in third with 117 points. Pratt Institute (63), Gwynedd Mercy (39), Neumann (20) and Saint Elizabeth (5) rounded out the standings.
Marywood won three events at the championship meet. The Pacers earned a deciding championship-winning first place finish in the 4x400 relay. The team of Elizabeth Tomasetti, Abby Megotz, Caroline Walters and Carly Walters crossed the finish line in first place with a record-breaking time of 4:05.25.
Marywood's 4x400 relay broke the championships record by 4.75 seconds. In addition to setting a school record, they also broke the conference overall record by 2.96 seconds.
Elizabeth Tomasetti ran to a first-place finish in the 400 hurdles. She finished the course in 1:09.69, ahead of second-place Megotz's 1:14.87 mark. Tomasetti's win also secured a school record.
Kalie Fernandez-Naughton won a conference championship in the triple jump. She hit a mark of 31 feet, 8 inches (9.65m). The Pacers took the top four slots in the triple jump. Alyssa Kavleski was second place with a distance of 30 feet, 5 3/4 inches (9.29m). Tasiyah Johnson trailed by 1 1/2 inches (9.25m). Braelyn Reed was fourth with a mark of 30 feet, 2 3/4 inches (9.21m).
In addition to anchoring the relay record, Carly Walters broke two individual records. Walters broke teammate Megotz's 200 dash record by six-hundredths of a second in 26.74 seconds for fourth place. Her third place finish in the 400 broke a school record with a time of 1:00.15. She also recorded the fourth-best 800 time of 2:26.95 for second place. .
Marywood previously won three straight Atlantic East titles in 2019, 2021 and 2022.
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The Atlantic East Conference is a member of NCAA Division III comprising eight institutions in a four-state area - Gwynedd Mercy, Immaculata, Marywood and Neumann Universities in Pennsylvania; Centenaryand Saint Elizabeth Universities in New Jersey, Marymount University in Virginia, and Pratt Institute in New York.
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