Women's Track & Field Team Wins Service Academy Championship

March 31, 2007

LEXINGTON, Va. -- Loni Forsythe (Sr., Chattanooga, Tenn.) and Kirsten Andrews (Sr., New Holland, Pa.) both won a pair of events to help the Navy women's track and field team win the inaugural Service Academy Championship Saturday at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Va. The Mids tallied 209 points on the day to win the six-team meet comprised of the other service academy institutions.

"Everybody stepped up today," said Navy head coach Carla Criste. "Despite competing in a torrential downpour all afternoon, we received great efforts and saw a number of personal-best marks set."

Air Force totaled 190 points to place second at the meet, with Army finishing in third place with a score of 175 points.

Forsythe won both sprint events on the day, winning the 100 meters in a time of 11.91 and the 200 meters with a clocking of 24.91. Andrews, meanwhile, claimed first place in the 100-meter hurdles with a clocking of 14.56 and won the long jump with a leap of 5.69 meters.

Navy athletes would claim the top-two spots in the steeplechase, with Kyleigh Millhouse's (Jr., Boiling Springs, Pa.) 11:30.40 edging the 11:31.20 effort put forth by Maureen Dooley (So., Durham, Conn.).

Also highlighting the Navy efforts on the day was Jacquelyn Charnigo (Jr., Medina, Ohio), who tied for first place in the pole vault with an NCAA meet qualifying mark of 3.80 meters and in the high jump with a leap of 1.65 meters. Charnigo was awarded second place in the standings in both events by virtue of a jump off.

Additional Navy second-place finishes were recorded on the day by Erin Demchko (Sr., Pearl River, N.Y.) in the 1500-meter run (4:44.97), Michelle Bostic (Jr., Rockwall, Texas) in the 400 hurdles (1:03.49) and Danielle Still (Sr., Lawndale, N.J.) in the javelin (39.37 meters).

The meet was capped off by Navy's mile relay team of Emi Parker (Fr., Tacoma, Wash.), Taren Burnett (Jr., Virginia Beach, Va.), Jessica Orr (Jr., New Holland, Pa.) and Lauren Burmeister (Jr., Brownsdale, Minn.) winning the event with a clocking of 3:58.40.

Navy will next compete April 7 at the Delaware Invitational before playing host to Army April 14 at Ingram Field.

Final Standings
1. Navy, 209 points
2. Air Force, 190
3. Army, 175
4. The Citadel, 69
5. Coast Guard, 42
6. VMI, 34

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