FULL RESULTSHUNTINGTON, N.Y. - The Daemen College women's track and field team closed out its 2014-15 indoor season today, competing at the East Coast Conference Championship held at St. Anthony's High School. The Wildcats finished seventh in the team standings, out of eight competing teams, accumulating 41 points in the meet. Roberts Wesleyan College racked up 140 points to win the conference championship.
Daemen was paced on the track today by freshman
Amy Trabert (Amherst, N.Y./Amherst) who established a new team record for the 5,000-meter run with her time of 19:00.52 in the event finals. She earned four points for the team standings by virtue of her fourth-place finish in the race.
The sophomore-duo of
Mackenzie Donahue (East Aurora, N.Y./East Aurora) and
Hannah Rice (East Aurora, N.Y./East Aurora) also fared well for the Wildcats as each earned a runner-up finish. Donahue finished second in the 3,000-meter run with a time of 10:45.78 earning eight points. Rice's runner-up performance came in the 800-meter run (2:23.44), finishing just off the pace set by race-winner Ashley Armand (2:22.59) of Queens College.
Donahue and Rice also teamed with
Brooke Nolan (Depew, N.Y./Depew) and Lindsay Wood (Newfield, N.Y./Newfield) as part of the Wildcats' distance medley team which scored six points with a third-place finish (13:11.59). Rice also ran leadoff for the 4 X 400 meter relay team which featured Nolan,
Leah May (Palmyra, N.Y./Palmyra-Macedon) and
Kailyn Szymanski (Lockport, N.Y./Lockport). That group finished sixth in their relay race earning a single point.
Szymanski and Wood added points in individual races as well. Szymanski finished fourth in the 400-meter run with a time of 1:00.63 to earn four points. Wood collected a single point with her sixth-place finish in the 800-meter run (2:31.80).
In field events, thrower
Toria Williams (Buffalo, N.Y./Medaille College) was Daemen's lone scorer, accounting for nine points in all. Eight of those came with her runner-up showing in the shot put. Williams, whose long toss of the day was 12.81 meters, was one of just two athletes to reach the 12-meter distance with event-winner Shelby Frank of Georgian Court University the other (13.10 meters). Williams added a sixth-place finish, and its corresponding single point, in the weight throw event with a toss of 11.91 meters.
Daemen resumes its 2014-15 season when the outdoor portion of the schedule gets underway with the Coastal Carolina University Invitational in Conway, S.C. on March 13-14.
