Amirato Breaks Program Record For The Triple Jump at Season Opening Event

Wildcats Open 2022-23 Season At The Houghton December Classic

12/3/2022 11:33:00 AM

By: CONTACT: Tom McDermott, Director of Athletics Communications | tmcdermo@daemen.edu

HOUGHTON, N.Y. - The Daemen University women's track and field team opened its 2022-23 indoor season by taking part in the Houghton December Classic held Friday evening at the Kerr-Pegula Field House on the campus of Houghton University.

A program-record effort by sophomore Alyssa Amirato (Depew, N.Y.) in the triple jump highlighted the evening for the Wildcats.

HIGHLIGHTS

Amirato placed fourth out of 15 entrants in the triple jump with a leap of 10.75 meters—breaking the previous program record of 10.58 meters set by Katja Meyer at the 2019 Highlander Invitational.
Amirato also took part in the long jump and placed first among four Daemen entrants and 13^th out of 34 student-athletes with a leap of 4.90 meters—which ranks as her personal-best effort in the long jump at an indoor event—and is just shy of the program record (4.93 meters) held by Katja Meyer.
Junior Alyssa Harrington (Tonawanda, N.Y.) also took part in both the long jump and the triple jump. She placed 20^th in the long jump with a personal-best effort of 4.72 meters and placed 10^th in the triple jump (10.03 meters).
Sophomore Elizabeth Bentley (Belmont, N.Y.) took part in the shot put and weight throw. She finished 18^th out of 36 in the shot put (8.69 meters) and placed 13^th out of 30 in the weight throw with a personal-best toss of 11.17 meters.
Freshman Becca Schultz (Grand Island, N.Y.) had a busy collegiate debut, as she took part in the 60 meter dash, the 60 meter hurdles and the long jump. She narrowly missed qualifying for the finals in both the 60 meter dash and the 60 meter hurdles. She placed 12^th out of 50 entrants in the 60 meter dash with a time of 8.33 seconds, and finished ninth out of 28 in the 60 meter hurdles with a time of 9.77 seconds—narrowly missing the program-record of 9.47 set by Sam Carro at the 2018 Highlander Invitational. Schultz, who is also a member of the Daemen women's soccer team, capped her night by placing second among four Daemen entrants and 16^thout of 34 in the long jump (4.83 meters).
Fellow freshmen Grace Gominiak (Darien Center, N.Y.), Angelina Natale (Rochester, N.Y.), Alexis Nguyen (Grand Island, N.Y.), Alexis Rodriguez (Willamson, N.Y.) and Samantha Kabel (Alexander, N.Y.) also made their collegiate debuts.
Gominiak took part in the 200 and 400 meter dash. She placed 36^th in the 200 (30.84) and seventh in the 400 (1:12.33).
Natale had an impressive debut in the high jump, as she place fourth out of 14 with a leap of 1.46 meters—just shy of the program record (1.51 meters) set by teammate Sydney Taylor at the Highlander Invitational last year. She also placed 26^th in the long jump (4.36 meters) and 14^th in the triple jump (9.45 meters).
Nguyen placed 17^th in the 300 meters (49.97), while Rodriguez placed 13^th in the 300 meters (45.93) and 18^thin the 60 meter hurdles (10.19).
Kabel took part in both the shot put and weight throw. She placed 22^nd in the shot put (8.16 meters) and 24^th in the weight throw (8.14 meters).

UP NEXT
The Wildcats return to action next Friday (Dec. 9) when they head to Nazareth College in Rochester, N.Y. to take part in the Nazareth Alumni Opener.

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