ANNAPOLIS, Md. – The Navy track and field team broke four school records and posted an additional nine top 10 performances as the Midshipmen won 27 of 28 events at the Patriot League Indoor Challenge at Wesley A. Brown Field House in Annapolis.
Sam Orie (Greensburg, Pa.) broke a pair of school records in the shot put and the weight throw, while
Annie Taylor (Nashville, Tenn.) broke the Navy record in the pentathlon. On the men's side, Caden Dailey (Centreville, Va.) posted a new school record in the long jump.
"We are really happy with what we were able to accomplish," Director of Navy Track and Field
Jamie Cook said after the meet. "Going into the season, we had a pretty tough goal of going undefeated, beat Army, and to win the conference title. We basically did that. We are conference champions in our book. We competed with the meet that we were given. I think we lost one event all day. Four school records, multiple top 10s. It was a good season, and a very tough season to handle with all of the restrictions. I am very proud of our team and very proud of our coaching staff."
On the women's side, Navy won 14 of 15 events, while notching three school records.
Orie recorded a distance of 14.97m (49-01.50) in the shot put to set a new school mark. The senior captain also broke her own school record in the weight throw with a new top distance of 19.88m (65-02.75).
Orie was joined by Taylor who tallied 3,709 total points to break the school record in the pentathlon.
In the 200m,
Molly Mangan (Pittsburgh, Pa.) crossed the finish line with a time of 24.35 for the second fastest time in Navy history, coming 0.04 seconds shy of tying the school record.
The triple jump saw
Audrey Fernandez (South Hill, Wash.) and
Molly Chapman (Leesburg, Va.) record top 10 performances. Fernandez registered a distance of 12.33m (40-05.50), which is the second-best jump in Navy history. Chapman's mark of 12.06m (39-07.00) was good enough for eighth.
Stephanie Jacobs (Belleville, Ill.) recorded a height of 4.01m (13-01.75) in the pole vault for the third best performance in Navy history. She becomes the third Navy student-athlete to clear 4.00m in the pole vault, joining
Charlene Morke and Jacqui Charnigo.
Katie Halbert (Keller, Texas) notched a time of 8.75 in the 60m hurdles to tie for the fifth fastest time in Navy history. Joining Taylor in the pentathlon were Halbert and
Erin Higgins (Ashburn, Va.), who finished with 3,541 and 3,431, respectively. Halbert's total is the fourth best in program history, while Higgins' ranked seventh.
Ann Jackson (Roanoke, Va.) tied for the 10th best performance in program history in the long jump with a distance of 5.71m (18-08.75).
The men's team won all 13 events on the day, highlighted by Dailey's school record.
Dailey registered a top distance of 7.58m (24-10.50) in the long jump to record a new Navy school mark in the event. Dailey also tied for the second fastest time in program history with a time of 6.82 in the 60m dash.
In addition, Ashwin Briggs (Pickerington, Ohio) clocked the 10th fastest time in Navy history in the one-mile run, posting a time of 4:02.90.
