SU Women’s Track Captures Second
Complete
Women’s Results
BETHLEHEM, Pa. – A late rally vaulted the Susquehanna
women’s track & field team into second place overall at
the Landmark Conference Outdoor Championships which concluded on
Sunday at Moravian College.
The women earned second with 144 points while Moravian took home
the championship with 250 points.
Claudia Bartoli (Brookfield, Conn./Brookfield)
claimed the javelin title with a throw of 33.54m as she combined
with teammate Jared Minori to
sweep the men’s and women’s javelin.
Jessica Palmer-Bacon (Wellsboro, Pa./Wellsboro
Area) and Kristin Stam (Wellsboro, Pa./Wellsboro
Area) went five-six in the high jumps with respective
marks of 1.42m and 1.37m. Stam went on to a second-place finish in
the triple jump (10.89m – a career-best) and teammate
Jonaida Williams Williamsport, Pa./Loyalsock Twp.)
was third (10.74m).
In the hammer, Jess Ranck (Lewisburg, Pa./Lewisburg
Area) was the team’s top finisher, placing fourth
with a career-best mark of 39.81m. Jennifer
Baer (Greencastle, Pa./Greencastle-Antrim) was
sixth with a mark of 37.44m.
Brooke Linders (Doylestown, Pa./Central Bucks
West) (1:00.60) and Laura Alleva (Malvern,
Pa./Great Valley) (1:01.33) were fourth and fifth in the
400 meter dash while Shannon Galvin (Jamison, Pa./Central
Bucks South) took home fourth in the 1500 meter run
(4:53.78), shattering her previous PR of 5:04.42. In the same
event, teammate Maggie Storch (Troy, Pa./Troy
Area) finished seventh (4:57.28), also a PR.
SU’s 4 x 100 relay team of Thanida Sermsuwan
(Bridgewater, N.J./Bridgewater-Raritan), Jenelle
Toter (Fishers Ferry, Pa./Line Mountain), Williams and
Stam took home second with a time of 51.74.
Alleva took home second in her marquee event, the 800, with a
career-best time of 2:20.39. Galvin was not far behind, finishing
fourth (2:21.75), her fastest time by 10 seconds.
Carly Bass (Flanders, N.J./Mount Olive) was the
team’s top finisher in the 5k as her time of 19:43.59 earned
her sixth overall. That time was a near 16-second PR.
In the final event of the day, the Crusaders earned second in the 4
x 400 relay with a time of 4:09.44.
