CORTLAND, N.Y. - The Cortland women's track and field squad won the team title out of eight schools at the Cortland Please Stop Snowing Team Challenge. The meet was added to the schedule after the Red Dragons were unable to compete in two of the season's first three weekends due to the weather.

Cortland finished with 157.5 points to narrowly edge Roberts Wesleyan (153) for the team crown. Daemen was third with 88 points.

Six Red Dragons won their respective events, including two who met All-Atlantic Region Track and Field Conference (AARTFC) qualifying marks.

Maya Campbell (Valley Stream/Valley Stream South) won the triple jump and claimed an AARTFC qualifier with an 11.02 meters (36' 2") jump. She also earned a victory over nine other competitors in the 110-meter hurdles in 15.96 seconds. Kaylee Uhl (Waverly) set Cortland's other regional mark in the 400-meter hurdles with a winning finish of 1:06.75.

Three other first-place finishers for the Red Dragons were achieved in throwing events. Cat Lutjen (Sound Beach/Miller Place) was first out of 16 in the javelin at 33.86 meters (111' 1"). She was also second out of 17 in the shot put at 11.18 meters (36' 8.25"). Lindsey Crego (Minoa/East Syracuse Minoa) was the top finisher in the discus at 32.40 meters (106' 3") and Harley Buczkowski (Holland Patent) was third in the 18-person event with a distance of 31.89 meters (104' 7"). Buczkowski was victorious in the hammer throw as her winning mark of 43.79 meters (143' 8") edged out 10 competitors.

Kelly Gardner (Lake Ronkonkoma/Sachem North) had two top-five individual performances, as well as a second place relay finish. She was second out of 18 in the long jump at 5.19 meters (17' 0.5") and third in the triple jump at 10.72 meters (35' 2"). Riley Wood (Wallkill) finished third in the long jump at 4.84 meters (15' 10.5"). Gardner was also part of the 4x100 meter relay team with Jesse Correale (Staten Island/Notre Dame Academy), Asia Cornwall (East Greenbush/Columbia) and Dana Messina (East Meadow) that finished second in 50.20 seconds.

Messina and Cornwall each recorded top-10 finishes in the 100 and 200-meter dashes. Messina was fourth out of 18 in the 100-meter dash in 13.28 seconds where Campbell was eighth in 13.52 seconds. They also finished in fourth (27.16 seconds) and sixth (27.48 seconds) place, respectively, out of 31 in the 200-meter dash.

Cortland sent two heptathletes to the Kutztown University Mondschein Multi event Thursday and Friday. Kim White (Marathon) finished 12th in the white division with 3,404 points and Nicole Wise (Franklinville) was 14th with 3,040 points. White's top events were the 100-meter hurdles (733 points, 15.85 seconds) and the 800-meter run (636 points, 2:34.67), while Wise scored 588 points in the 800 meters (2:38.73) and 519 points in the 200-meter dash (29.48).

Cortland will send competitors to the Bucknell Outdoor Classic this weekend, and next week will host the Cortland Classic April 21-22.

(Recap by Cortland sports information student intern Kyle Lancto and Cortland SID Fran Elia)

Coach's Corner - Comments from Head Coach Steve Patrick:

We are quite fortunate that after the spring we have been having our college and department were able to support us adding this Friday night meet. The weather cooperated with us and our team was able to get some great performances! Some of the team hadn't had a chance to race since February 16th so getting one in was really crucial! While we didn't go into this meet fixated on trying to win as a team, it's a nice measure of where we are as a program that we were able to do so well overall!

Our 4x100 relays did awesome work today. We've really only been able to practice the baton passes once this season. The times are quite nice to open the season with and we are looking forward to seeing some big improvements as we move forward.

For the women's team, Maya Campbell had a stellar day with a PR to break 16 seconds in the hurdles and a huge PR in the triple jump: she went nearly four feet further than her previous best! Cole Clemons was equally impressive on he men's side setting three lifetime best performances in the shot put, discus throw, and hammer throw!

While it was a small contingent that made the trip to Kutztown for the Mondschein Multi, it couldn't have gone much better. While I don't want to downplay what a great effort Zach Kashmer put together - he had almost as many points through nine events as his best 10-event performance last year - the three freshmen that made the trip were all able to handle their first outdoor multi-event quite well!  Kim White had a collegiate best in every single one of the seven events that comprise the heptathlon. That's the first time I can recall something like that happening!

Cortland Meet Results:
Women
Men

Kutztown Women's Heptathlon Results (White Division)
Kutztown Men's Heptathlon Results (Maroon Division)
Kutztown Men's Heptathlon Results (Gold Division)