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).

UPDATE (Feb. 27) - Cortland head coach Steve Patrick has been named the SUNYAC Women's Indoor Track and Field Coach of the Year. He also won the award in 2008.

The Red Dragons captured three individual crowns and one relay title. Freshman Taylor Hudson (Victor) won the high jump by clearing 1.63 meters (5' 4.25”), junior Jordyn Naylon (Fairport) won the mile run in 5:02.21 and sophomore Sarah Bonnell (Norwich) was the long jump winner at 5.61 meters (18' 5”). Bonnell set a meet record with her long jump, while all three of the winning performances are ECAC qualifiers.

Cortland won the 4x400-meter relay as sophomore Trisha Clark (Pulaski), junior Liz Henry (Massapequa Park/Massapequa), sophomore Cait Reilly (Warwick/Monroe-Woodbury) and junior Alexis Grable (Pine Bush) 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. Sophomore Lexi Budd (Riverhead) finished second in the high jump. Like Hudson, she also cleared 1.63 meters (5' 4.25”), but finished second due to number of misses. Bonnell placed second in the 60-meter dash (7.87), Hudson finished second in the long jump (5.42 meters – 17' 9.5”), junior Chelsea Lachman (Monroe/Monroe-Woodbury) was second in the shot put (12.10 meters – 39' 8.5”) and senior Alyson Dalton (Sherrill/Vernon-Verona-Sherrill) placed second in the 3,000 meters (10:13.43).

The individual league champions earn first-team all-league honors, while individual runners-up are recognized as second-team all-conference.

Bonnell scored 24 points at the championship. In addition to her winning long jump and runner-up 60-meter dash, she also finished third in the 200-meter dash with an ECAC time of 26.34 seconds.

Junior Nikki Schafer (Troy/Columbia) finished third in the 60-meter hurdles with an ECAC time of 9.41 seconds and finished in a three-way tie for fourth place, along with freshman teammate Megan O'Regan (West Islip), in the high jump at a height of 1.53 meters (5' 0.25”).

Sophomore Kelly Hugo (Highland) completed Cortland's top-three sweep in the long jump with a third-place distance of 5.37 meters (17' 7.5”), an ECAC qualifier. She also hit an ECAC mark in the pole vault with her fourth-place height of 3.20 meters (10' 6”). Grable finished third in the 400-meter dash in 1:00.84.

Hudson scored in three individual events. In addition to her high jump and long jump, she finished sixth in the 200-meter dash in 26.72 seconds, an ECAC qualifier. Senior Jenna Evarts (West Islip) and freshman Kiki Jones (Binghamton) each posted two scoring finishes. Evarts finished fourth in the 60-meter dash (8.01 seconds) and fifth in the 200-meter dash (26.62 seconds), both ECAC qualifiers. Jones was fourth in the 200-meter dash (ECAC-qualifying 26.38 seconds) and eighth in the 400-meter dash (1:01.29).

Senior Veronica Montrose (Clintondale/Highland) finished fourth in the 400 meters (1:00.91), freshman Bori Tozser (Homer) placed fifth in the mile run (ECAC-qualifying 5:13.86) and junior Christi Nassauer (Mount Sinai) tied for fifth in the pole vault (3.05 meters – 10' 0”).

Clark finished sixth in the 400 meters (1:01.14) and freshman Erica Wharton (Putnam Valley) finished sixth in the triple jump (10.65 meters – 34' 11.25”). Freshman Valerie Vancol (Merrick/Sanford H. Calhoun) was seventh in the shot put (11.17 meters – 36' 7.75”), sophomore Emily Cotey (Norwood/Norwood-Norfolk) finished seventh in the 5,000 meters (18:52.77) and junior Brittany Krivicich (Middletown/Pine Bush) tied for seventh in the high jump (1.48 meters – 4' 10.25”).

Other individual scorers were freshman Heather Eriksson (Monroe/Monroe-Woodbury) with an eighth-place pole vault of 2.75 meters (9' 0.25”) and sophomore Colleen Fischman (Orchard Park/Hamburg) with an eight-place 3,000-meter time of 10:45.12. In addition, the distance medley relay team of junior Alexis Fairbanks (Apalachin/Owego Free Academy), senior Val Basciano (New City/Albertus Magnus), junior Kelsie Foster (Elmira/Notre Dame) and freshman Jenna Fallon (Waterville) finished seventh in 13:25.91.

Cortland will compete at the ECAC Div. III Indoor Championships on Friday and Saturday, March 2-3, at the New Balance Track and Field Center at the Armory in New York City.

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