Waynesburg women claim third-straight PAC outdoor track & field title
PAC Championships results
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. (pacathletics.org) – Waynesburg University earned its third-straight Presidents’ Athletic Conference (PAC) Women’s Outdoor Track & Field team championships Thursday evening at Westminster College’s Burry Stadium.
The league title was Waynesburg’s fourth (2013, 2016-18).
Waynesburg recorded 173 points during the 19-event, two-day championship event.
Host Westminster totaled 147 points to finish as runner-up. Geneva College was third (108.50), Grove City College was fourth (100.50) , Washington & Jefferson College was fifth (71.50), Thomas More College was sixth (43), Bethany College was seventh (40.50), Chatham University was eighth (38) and Saint Vincent College was ninth (18).
Geneva senior Nicole Bartoletta (Monaca, Pa. | Central Valley) was voted the meet’s overall Most Outstanding Performer for the second-straight year. Bartoletta was also the event’s Most Outstanding Performer on the track for the second year in a row.
During Wednesday’s preliminaries of the 100-meter hurdles, Bartoletta posted a PAC Championships record time of 14.36 seconds. She won Thursday’s final with a time of 14.88. She was the runner-up in the 100 meters (12.20) and 200 meters (25.29) and ran leadoff on Geneva’s winning 4x100-meter relay (47.89). The remaining members of the relay that cruised to a new PAC Championships record were freshman Eladia Kennedy (McKeesport, Pa. | Imani Christian Academy), senior Kailee Loose (Beaver, Pa. | Beaver) and senior Jessica Kelosky (Fombell, Pa. | Riverside).
Waynesburg senior Addy Knetzer (Houston, Pa. | Chartiers-Houston) was the event’s Most Outstanding Performer in the field for the fourth-straight year. She won the shot put with a throw of 42 feet, 6 inches (12.95m), was the runner-up in the discus (122-10, 37.46m) and was fourth in the javelin (122-11, 34.17m).
Thomas More senior Christina Cook (Independence, Ky. | Simon Kenton) secured her fourth-straight PAC titles in both the 200 meters and 400 meters Thursday. She won the 200 in a PAC Championships record time of 25.00. She won the 400 with a time of 56.74.
Waynesburg first-year head coach Michelle Cross was voted the league’s Coach of the Year.
The Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships are scheduled for Wednesday-Thursday, May 16-17 at Johns Hopkins University. (ECAC standards)
The NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships will be held Thursday-Saturday, May 24-26 at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. (Division III Qualifying Lists: Women | Men)
| PAC Women's Outdoor Track & Field Sportsmanship Team |
| School |
Name |
Yr. |
Hometown | High School |
| Bethany |
Elizabeth Timas |
Sr. |
Middlefield, Ohio | Cardinal |
| Chatham |
Mikayla Psenick |
Jr. |
Cranberry Township, Pa. | Seneca Valley |
| Geneva |
Lynise Houk |
Fr. |
Riverside, Pa. | Riverside |
| Grove City |
Tabitha White |
Jr. |
Pittsburgh, Pa. | North Allegheny |
| Saint Vincent |
Claire Galvin |
Fr. |
Charles Town, W.Va. | Kolbe Academy |
| Thiel |
Jessa Covine |
Sr. |
Cambridge Springs, Pa. | Maplewood |
| Thomas More |
Dakota Sicurella |
Sr. |
Bethel, Ohio | Bethel-Tate |
| W&J |
Hannah Lacey |
So. |
Brownsville, Pa. | Bethlehem Center |
| Waynesburg |
Angie Marchetti |
Sr. |
Hazleton, Pa. | Hazleton |
| Westminster |
Morgan Widina |
Sr. |
Mayfield Heights, Ohio | Mayfield |
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