Track teams host Pennsylvania Invite

Women looking for 'consistency' The Penn women's track team hosts its third consecutive meet with the Pennsylvania Invite Sunday. Five more schools are coming to Penn as teams around the country continue to prepare for the Penn Relays at the site at which they will be run. "There should be some very nice competition," coach Betty Costanza said. Penn State, whose strength is its distance runners, will provide a challenge to senior co-captain Maggie Morrow as she attempts to win in her third consecutive meet. After winning the 3,000 meters the last two invitationals, Morrow will return to the 5,000, the event she dominated during the indoor season. Temple, which has many top sprinters, will also provide a challenge for sprinter Jamila Northington. Northington was one of Penn's top sprinters during the indoor season, but she suffered an injury that caused her to miss the first two meets of the outdoor season. She will return Sunday, along with Jenee Anzelone and Adria Ferguson, who were also unable to compete last week. Costanza says her goals for the upcoming meet are "steady improvement and consistency." She is happy with the team's performance in the first two meets and hopes the improvement will continue. "Last week, freshman Melanie Cafe finally broke through. She really popped," Costanza said. "That's what we're looking for, people to break through." Co-captain Nicole Maloy wants her teammates to continue to keep the Heptagonal Championships in mind. She sees the upcoming meet as a "warmup for Heps". Maloy feels the freshmen now realize the weekly meets are not nearly as important as the Championships. Heps are four weeks away, one week after the Penn Relays. Costanza also sees this meet as a preparation for future meets. She plans on having most Quakers compete in three events, a sizeable increase over their usual one event per meet. "We want to see where our strengths will be so we will know where to place them in the meets that are scored," Costanza said. This will be the last unscored meet of the season for Penn. Princeton and Cornell visit next week for a competition, and Yale will come the following week.