Men’s and Women’s Track & Field competed at the Muhlenberg Outdoor Invitational in Allentown, PA, last Saturday, April 6.
Women’s Outdoor Track and Field made a notable mark on the meet when graduate student Laura Mathews and first-year Isabella Shanley took the top two spots in the 100-meter dash. Matthews placed first with a time of 12.41 seconds and Shanley followed close behind with a time of 13.05. Mathews’s classmate, Kristen William secured three of her own top-10 finishes in the 100-meter hurdles, the triple jump, and in the 100-meter dash.
Other memorable performances included senior Jacqueline Lulaj finishing the 400-meter hurdles in 1:13.03, placing third, and classmate Nina Burden’s 400-meter dash. Burden completed the race in 1:03.19, where she set a collegiate personal record (PR) and took seventh in the race.
Men’s Outdoor Track and Field saw noteworthy first place victories the same day. Sophomore Danny Jutras and graduate student Ronnie Melao clinched the win in the 800 and the steeplechase respectively. Jutras set a new PR at a time of 1:56.48 and Melao took the title of fastest in the conference, finishing in 9:42.84.
The Ducks took a second and third place finish in the pole vault when sophomore Kyle Miller and first-year Chris Persico both cleared 3.65 meters. Another two top-five victories came from first-years Justin Gajewski and Joshua Lim in the triple jump when the two reached 12.56 and 12.18 meters respectively.
