CARLISLE, Pa. – The Ursinus College women's track and field team picked up five medals and moved up one spot to finish seventh as the Centennial Conference outdoor championship wrapped up Sunday at Dickinson College.
Junior Erin Farrell captured her second consecutive outdoor gold in the 200-meter dash, pairing it with two straight indoor golds for the Bears, who added two silvers and two bronzes each in completing the three-day event with a total of 63 points.
Johns Hopkins left Carlisle with the team for the seventh consecutive year after racking up 219.75 points, nearly double the total put forth by second-place Dickinson (113). Haverford (102) was third, followed by Muhlenberg (88.25), Gettysburg (79), Swarthmore (78), Ursinus (63), Franklin & Marshall (45), Bryn Mawr (14), and McDaniel (13).
Farrell, who has won the last two indoor 200-meter dash championships, doubled down with an outdoor repeat. The junior edged Swarthmore's Kayla Camacho by a mere hundredth of a second, claiming gold once more with an ECAC-qualifying mark of 25.91. With Amanda Laurito winning the outdoor 200 from 2011-2013, the Bears have produced the event's champion in five of the last six years, passing Gettysburg and McDaniel for the most first-place finishes of any program at the outdoor meet.
Farrell was sixth in the 100-meter dash, a neck-and-neck affair in which the top six runners were separated by only .14 seconds.
Prijs finished seventh in the 200 (26.98), but her best moment came in the 400, where her time of 1:00.12 earned her a silver medal behind only Johns Hopkins' Emily Nordquist.
A day removed from a second-place effort in the heptathlon, senior Krista Snyder added two more medals to her collection with a second-place finish in the triple jump and a third-place performance in the javelin. Snyder's triple jump leap of 36-4.75 was almost two feet better than her former personal record, and freshman Caroline Buckley earned points by placing sixth (33-10.75).
Snyder garnered bronze in the javelin with a season-best heave of 115-2.00, more than six and a half feet farther than her previous standard. Junior Erin Specht finished 11th with a 93-4.00 and senior Kimberly Snow landed in 16th (83-00).
Prijs, sophomore Jenna Kelly, sophomore Meggie Leitz, and Snyder came up with a season best in the 4x400-meter relay, procuring a bronze medal with a time of 4:05.32, just .42 seconds off the pace set by Swarthmore's runner-up unit.
The 4x100-meter relay grouping of Farrell, Prijs, senior Sasha Cusick, and Kelly came in fifth (50.40).