LANCASTER, Pa. - McDaniel College women's track & field senior
Bailey Mullen had two second-place finishes to lead the Green Terror at the Coach I Invitational hosted by Franklin & Marshall on Saturday.
Mullen was the runner-up in the mile and 3,000 meters, posting personal bests in both events. Her time of 5:34.27 in the mile bettered her 10th-best mark on the McDaniel all-time list while her time of 11:05.79 in the 3K was the eighth-best in program history.
In the 200-meter dash, McDaniel claimed six of the top seven finishes led by freshman
Anna Rando who finished second with a time of 28.37 seconds. Junior
Angel Bidgell placed third with a time of 28.38 seconds while junior
Yeseniah Ortiz placed fourth in 28.66 seconds.
Junior
Katie Morgan took fifth in the 200, followed by senior
Gabby Collins in sixth and sophomore
Jasmine Porter in seventh.
Rando also claimed third in the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 10.39 seconds which is the eighth-best on the school's all-time list. She also placed sixth in the 60-meter dash while Collins was ninth.
Senior
Megan O'Neill took fourth in the 400-meter dash with a time of 1:06.04, qualifying her for the 2023 Centennial Conference Indoor Track & Field Championships. Freshman
Taylor Pinthiere made her college debut with a fourth-place finish in the long jump with a leap of 4.65m.
The throws had a series of personal bests with freshman
Kate Principio placing seventh in the weight throw at 8.71m and 15th in the shot put at 7.62m. Junior
Mikayla Smith set a personal best in the weight throw at 8.08m to place eighth while freshman
Ameerah Johnson placed eighth in the shot put at 9.66m.
Freshman
Sofia DelRosso-Freeman earned her first collegiate mark in the pole vault, finishing fifth with a height of 1.98m to rank ninth in program history. Freshman
Elyssa Greene claimed sixth in the triple jump at 8.78m and 11th in the long jump at 3.78m.
Freshman
Piper Nagaraj finished eighth in the mile with a time of 5:53.78 and junior
Ashley Siebenhaar placed 13th in 6:06.18.
The 4x200-meter relay team of Collins, Morgan, Ortiz and junior
Angel Bidgell took third in 1:51.89 while the team of Rando, Porter, sophomore
Shannon Short and senior
Renee Dupre followed in fourth place in 1:58.57.
The 4x400-meter relay team of Morgan, Ortiz, Collins and O'Neill came in sixth with a time of 4:33.21 and the team of
Rando,
Short,
Nagaraj and sophomore
Jasmine Porter came in eighth with a time of 4:41.23.
McDaniel returns to Franklin & Marshall next Friday, Jan. 27 for the Mini Dip Invitational. Competition gets underway at 2 p.m.