Cortland Red Dragons Win SUNYAC Women's Indoor Track and Field Crown
GENEVA, N.Y. – The SUNY Cortland women's indoor track and field team won its 15th State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) title and first in five years at the conference's indoor championships. The meet was held at Hobart and William Smith College's Bristol Field House.
Cortland comfortably won the title with 163 points compared to runner-up Buffalo State's 121 points. Geneseo finished third with 109 points, followed by Brockport (66.5), Oneonta (52.5), Plattsburgh (47), Fredonia (39) and Oswego (23).
The Red Dragons captured three individual crowns and one relay title. Freshman Taylor Hudson won the high jump by clearing 1.63 meters (5' 4.25”), junior Jordyn Naylon won the mile run in 5:02.21 and sophomore Sarah Bonnell was the long jump winner at 5.61 meters (18' 5”). Bonnell set a meet record with her long jump breaking the old record from 1986, while all three of the winning performances are ECAC qualifiers.
Cortland won the 4x400-meter relay as sophomore Trisha Clark, junior Liz Henry, sophomore Cait Reilly and junior Alexis Grable recorded an ECAC-qualifying time of 4:04.47.
The Red Dragons also earned 40 team points by virtue of five runner-up finishes, all with ECAC-qualifying efforts.
Buffalo State won five individual titles and placed second in four events. Sasha Henry sprinted her way to a pair of conference championships, winning the 60 and 200-meter dashes in 7.65 and 25.73 seconds respectively. Jessica Walker and Jazmin Dunham were also standout performers for the Bengals. Walker won the triple jump for the third straight year, measuring 11.32 meters. Dunham crossed first in the 60-meter hurdles, clocking 8.93 seconds. Mariah Brown also earned a SUNYAC title, winning the 400-meter dash in 59.09 seconds.
Brittany Dalcais became the first Oswego State female to ever win the pole vault at the conference meet, as she stood at the top of the podium with a height of 11 feet, 5 3/4 inches. She is the first Laker female to finish in first at the indoor championships since Alisia Knight won the high jump and Jackie Cianfarano won the long and triple jumps in 2002.
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