BOWLING GREEN, KY - This past weekend, the Kentucky Wesleyan Men's and Women's Track & Field teams competed at the Hilltopper Relays, hosted by Western Kentucky University.
Abigail Lesniak highlighted the day with a second place finish in the 1500m, clocking in at a time of 5:06.81. Also finishing in second place in her event was freshman sensation
Claire Lange, who took the runner up spot in the 400m hurdles with a time of 1:07.80. Rounding out the second place finishers was
Sarah Vanderhoof, who ran a new personal best time of 13:02.49 in the 3000m Steeplechase to take second.
Wesleyan had three top ten finishers in the 800m, as
Kate Keller (2:24.70),
Abby Greene (2:30.25), and
Jaiden Davis (2:37.93) placed fifth, seventh, and ninth respectively.
Rae Sloane ran a personal best time of 16.10 in the 100m hurdles to advance to the finals, where she unfortunately took eighth after falling over an early hurdle. Alexandra Schneider also ran well in the hurdles, just missing out on the finals with a new PR of 17.07. The women's 4x100 team consisting of
Claire Lange,
Rae Sloane,
Jenna Burns, and
Karyn Williams took fourth with a strong time of 51.16.
On the men's side of things,
Matt Wilson led the way with a fourth place finish in the shot put. He threw the shot a distance of 14.05m (46-1.25) on his fifth throw of the day to place in the top five. Freshman
Landon Binion continued his strong outdoor season, taking fifth place in the 400m hurdles with a 1:01.52.
Ashton Weaver ran a time of 17.37 to qualify for the 100m hurdles finals, but a fall in the finals led to an eighth place finish.
Elijah Moss and
Arthur Powell IV finished just outside of the finals in the 100m dash, with Moss running a time of 11.17 and Powell IV a time of 11.23.
"Our new point of reference is now execution. Day in and day out, we need to focus on every single aspect of our assignments that will assist us achieving our goals. We have to get and keep everyone healthy. We must bring the necessary energy and the passion over this next month leading into conference. All things considered from the impact of terrible weather by disrupting meet plans and sleep patterns, we had a good weekend of work." - Sol Stephens.
Wesleyan won't compete again until the 14th, when they travel to Danville, Ky. for the Centre Twighlight Meet.
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