Tartans Win Seven Events to Earn a Team Victory at the CMU Quad Meet

(PITTSBURGH, Pa.) – The Carnegie Mellon University women's track and field team won the Carnegie Mellon Quad Meet on Saturday, April 2 with 216 points. Westminster College was second with Penn Sate Behrend finishing third and Saint Vincent College placing fourth.

Sophomore Kiersten Chuc (Cupertino, Calif./Monta Vista) and freshman Oly Nwankwo (Homestead, Pa./Stevenson) each threw the hammer a career best with Chuc winning the event with a mark of 41.63 meters as Nwankwo finished second with a mark of 40.28 meters. Nwankwo also finished second in the shot put with a mark of 11.12 meters while Chuc was second in the discus throw with a career-best mark of 33.24 meters. Freshman Alexa Barriero (Middletown, N.J./Middletown North) finished second in the women's javelin throw with a mark of 30.34 meters.

Senior Taylor Maggiacomo (Temecula, Calif./Great Oak) ran to a career-best time in the 3,000-meter steeplechase as she crossed the line in 11:57.58, shaving more than 14 seconds off her previous best. Senior Haley Bryant (Colorado Springs, Colo./Palmer) won the 1,500-meter run with a season-best time of 5:07.24.

Freshman Rose Ciriello (Madison, N.J./Madison) picked up a victory in the 800-meter run with a time of 2:23.10.

Freshman Debarati Bhanja (New Albany, Ohio/New Albany) placed second in the long jump with a mark of 4.82 meters as freshman Autumn Hair (Blue Bell, Pa./Wissahickon) was third with a mark of 4.70 meters.

Junior Sommer Farber (Pittsburgh, Pa./ Mt. Lebanon) finished second in the 100-meter hurdles in 17.09 with junior Rebecca Fortner (Navarre, Ohio/Fairless) finishing third in 17.13. Sophomore Sarah Cook (Pittsburgh, Pa./Hampton) also picked up a second-place finish when she crossed the finish line in a season-best 59.23 in the 400-meter run. Bhanja ran to a career-best time when she finished third in the 400 in 59.64 seconds.

Sophomore Jerilyn James (Friendswood, Texas/Clear Brook) ran the 100-meter dash in 13.46 to place second while Hair was third in 13.51. James later ran the 200-meter dash in 28.47 to place second.

In the high jump, Fortner won with a meet-record height of 1.55 meters. Freshman Tessa Allen (Manhattan Beach, Calif./Bishop Montgomery) also cleared 1.55 meters to place second while junior Emily Swanson (Atkinson, N.H./Timberlane Regional) jumped over the bar at 1.50 meters for a career best.

Senior Liz Snyder (Somerset, Pa./Somerset) won the 3,000-meter run in 10:40.58 with senior Natalie Smith (Portland, Ore./Metropolitan Learning Center) placing second in 10:59.86. Senior Kira Ragazzo (Frederick, Md./Urbana) made it a sweep with a third-place finish in 11:08.32.

The women closed out the meet with a victory in the 4x400-meter relay when Bhanja, James, Ciriello and Cook crossed in 4:09.65.

The Tartans will next be in action at the John Homon Invitational hosted by the University of Mount Union on Saturday, April 9.