HIGHLANDER INVITATIONAL  — FULL RESULTS


HOUGHTON, N.Y. - The Daemen College women's track and field team resumed its 2021-22 indoor season by taking part in the Highlander Invitational held today on the campus of Houghton College.

A solid showing in the mile run highlighted the track portion of the day for Daemen, as graduate student Kassandra Nolet (Fort Erie, Ont.), junior Courtney Merrill (Speedway, Ind.), freshman Emma Cain (Lockport, N.Y.) and sophomore Camryn Bailey (Geneva, N.Y.) all placed among the top 11 finishers in a race that featured 44 runners. Senior Hannah Thomas (Cheektowaga, N.Y.)  and sophomore Haley Hinds (Blossvale, N.Y.) also posted top-10 finishes in the 800 meters, while a school-record effort by freshman Sydney Taylor (Brockport, N.Y.) in the high jump highlighted the Daemen field events.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Nolet placed third in the mile with a personal best time of 5:20.86. She knocked eight seconds off her previous best time of 5:28.95 which she posted at the 2021 Highlander Invitational. Her time of 5.20:86 today also ranks as the third fastest mile time in program history, behind only Brittney Denton (5:16.70) and Mackenzie Donahue (5:05.50).
• Merrill placed seventh in the mile with a personal best time of 5:31.82. Her previous best time of 5:42.63 was set at the 2021 Highlander Invitational.
• Cain and Bailey both ran the mile for the first time in their brief careers. Cain placed 8th with a time of 5:37.03, while Bailey just missed a top-10 finish and placed 11th with a time of 5:42.52.
• Thomas placed third out of 20 runners in the 800 meters with a time of 2:32.53—just one second off her personal best time of 2:31.56. She knocked 10 seconds off her time of 2:42.12 that she posted at last month's Houghton Indoor Meet.
• Hinds ran the 800 meters for the first time in her career and placed seventh with a time of 2:38.45. Sophomore Emma Grzebinski (West Seneca, N.Y.) also ran the 800 meters and placed 11th with a personal best time of 2:46.91.
• Taylor set a new school record in the high jump with a leap of 1.51 meters—eclipsing the previous mark of 1.50 meters set by Katja Meyer at 2018 Brockport Alumni & Multi Invitational and the 2019 2019 East Coast Conference Indoor Championships.
• Sophomore Alyssa Harrington (Tonawanda, N.Y.) competed in the 60 meter dash, the long jump and the triple jump. She did not qualify for the finals in the 60 meter dash with a time of 8.61. She placed 13th in the long jump with a leap of 4.09 meters and finished fourth in the triple jump (9.98).
• Freshman Elizabeth Bentley (Belmont, N.Y.) took part in both the weight throw and the shot put. She placed 18th in the weight throw with a personal best toss of 8.24 meters and finished 19th in the shot put (7.65 meters).
• Freshman Grace Hennigan (Hamburg, N.Y.) made her collegiate debut today. She was one of 43 entrants in the 200 meters and placed 41st with a time of 36.21.
• Daemen had two teams compete in the 4x800 relay. The team of Merrill, Nolet, Thomas and senior Amanda Bushway (East Aurora, N.Y.) placed second among seven teams with a time of 10:32.71, while the team of Bailey, Cain, Hinds and Grzebinski placed third with a time of 10:58.02.

UP NEXT

The Wildcats return to action next Saturday (Jan. 29) when they take part in the Robert J. Kane Invitational on the campus of Cornell University. 

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