The women's track and field program again got significant efforts from track and field mainstays Haidyn Wamsley and Olivia Cisco at the Cherry Blossom Invitational in Athens, Ohio Saturday evening -- as Wamsley produced a meet-winning performance in the high jump while Cisco notched a first-place performance of her own in the 3,000 meter run to cap off competition.
Wamsley, who posted a five-foot, three-and-three-quarter inch jump, just missed NAIA qualification by three one-hundredths of a meter, while Cisco, who continues to enjoy a breakout spring, ran a 10:29.51 in the 3,000 meter run to best her next-closest competitor by over 46 seconds in the event.
In additional performances that were inside the top-eight, Juniper Allen and Beth Middleton finished fourth and fifth with times of 11:36.39 and 11:37.38, while Makaela Lovely (second in triple jump, 28 feet, six-and-a-half inches; third in high jump, four feet, 11-and-three-quarters inches) and Marli Marcum (third in triple jump, 27 feet, 11 inches; eighth in high jump, four feet, six inches) each scored points as well. Wamsley added in a sixth-place showing in the javelin (94 feet, three inches) while Brianna Brudy, who posted a long jump of 16 feet, two-and-a-half inches, finished eighth in that event.
The 4-by-100 and 4-by-400 units also finished in the top-eight, as well -- with the 4-by-400 relay grouping of Cisco, Jozi Brown, Jessica Elick and Mckenna Pannell posting a 4:42.68 to finish fifth and the 4-by-100 relay squad of Wamsley, Brudy, Ivy Gentry and Makaela Lovely notching a 51.54 to place eighth.
Additional
Additional performances were as follows:
200 meter dash: Brianna Brudy (11th, 26.28)
1,500 meter run: Jozi Brown (18th, 5:12.09), Jessica Elick (19th, 5:17.52), Mckenna Pannell (21st, 5:21.92), Amanda Salmons (23rd, 5:30.06)
Long jump: Ivy Gentry (11th, 14 feet, eight-and-three-quarters inches)
Shot put: Faith Kuhn (16th, 33 feet, six inches), Shelby Rhoden (22nd, 30 feet, nine-and-a-quarter inches)
Discus: Faith Kuhn (27th, 77 feet, three inches)
Javelin: Shelby Rhoden (12th, 69 feet, four inches)
The women's track and field program at Shawnee State will be back in action next Friday in two different places as SSU will compete at the Jesse Owens Classic in Columbus as well as the Otterbein Invitational in Westerville.
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