Personal Bests Littered QU Women’s Indoor Track & Field’s Day at Terrier Invite

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Personal Bests Littered QU Women’s Indoor Track & Field’s Day at Terrier Invite

1/29/2016 10:33:00 PM | Women's Indoor Track & Field

Ten Bobcats PIcked up Personal-Bests in Seven Different Events

By: QU Sports Information

BOSTON, Massachusetts – Personal bests came in several events for the Quinnipiac women's indoor track and field team on Friday at the Terrier Invite on the campus of Boston University. In all, 10 different personal-bests were broken on the day in seven different events (200m, 400m, 500m, 1000m, 3000m, 5000m, Shot Put) while Jessica Lee (Montgomery, New Jersey) picked up the lone Top 10 finish on the day as she took 3^rd place in the 60m hurdles.

Lee's fourth Top 5 finish of the 2015-16 season extends what is a breakout campaign for the second-year Bobcat. Already established as the best hurdler in program history, Lee nearly came away with her second individual victory of the season as she placed 3^rd out of 82 in the 60m hurdles. Lee came just 0.04 seconds shy of matching her program record as she has already bested her freshman season-high time of 8.80 seconds three times.

Shameal Samuels (Hartford, Connecticut) shook off the rust from winter break and finished with a couple productive performances as she took 15^th place out of 142 in the 400m and followed that up placing 19^th out of 189 in the 200m. Samuels did not record a new personal-best on the day but she still put together successful times including 55.93 seconds in the 400m and 24.72 seconds in the 200m dash.

Kristen Ulrich (Clark, New Jersey) put together the best 400m time of her four-year career as she set a new personal-best with a time of 57.12 seconds. Ulrich improved on her previous personal-best of 57.33 seconds set on Jan. 23, 2015 and managed to place 30^th out of 142 in what is her signature event.

Another Bobcat standout on the day was sophomore Kaleigh Roberts (Higganum, Connecticut) who took 18^th place out of 103 runners in the 3000m. Not only did Roberts' time of 9:50.41 set a new personal-best, she also moved all the way up from 7^th to 3^rd on the all-time 3000m list at Quinnipiac. Roberts' previous personal-best of 9:58.88 set on the same course on Feb. 28, 2015 was cut down by more than eight seconds.

The long distance events continued to another huge key to success on the day as sophomore Emily Wolff (Highlands Ranch, Colorado) excelled in the 5000m with a 13^th place finish out of 67 runners. Wolff's time of 17:15.81 was also a significant improvement on her previous personal-best time of 17:21.21.

The most productive event on the day for the Bobcats was the 500m as three Bobcats set new personal-bests in the event. Cori Reid (Old Saybrook, Connecticut) led the contingent with a new personal-best time of 1:18.33 to place 42^nd out of 75 competitors. Christina Barbaro (Elk Township, New Jersey) made a big move for the Bobcats as she clocked in at 1:18.34 to place 43^rd overall, improving significantly on her previous personal-best time 1:19.04. Finally, Marlo Wehrer (Pequannock, New Jersey) made a huge jump up as she timed in at 1:18.76 to move up to 6^th place on the all-time 500m record list at Quinnipiac. Wehrer came in unranked at Quinnipiac in the 500m.

Also making a big jump in the Quinnipiac record books is Katey Veron (Franklin Square, New York) whose time of 3:05.77 from Friday in the 1000m now cracks the Top 10 all-time list at 10^th place.

Other strong performers on the day included freshman sensation Carly Timpson (Narragansett, Rhode Island) who tied for 12^th out 45 in the high jump as she recorded a jump of 1.60m. Timpson just missed out on another Top 10 in the weight throw as she tallied 15.78m to place 12^th out of 69.

Freshman Francine Jacque (Port-au-Prince, Haiti) strung together a strong performance in the 60m dash as she clocked in at 7.84 seconds to lead all Bobcats and place 21^st out of 93 sprinters.

Sophomore Leah Pfrommer (Killingworth, Connecticut) nearly cracked the Top 10 as she placed 11^th in the long jump at 5.36m. Jessica Caso (Poughkeepsie, New York) also tallied a personal-best of 7.22m in the shot put.

Quinnipiac will be back in action on Feb. 5-6 from Coxe Cage in New Haven on the campus of Yale University in the two-day Giegengack Invitational.