Sophomore Shaunee Morgan broke the 20-year-old Penn record in the 200-meter by clocking in at a time of 24.95 at the Lafayette-Rider Games in New York on Saturday.
The women's track team went on to have many other stellar performances this weekend, winning eight events during the meet.
Sophomore Jesse Carlin won the 500m with a time of 1:12.56 and was named the Athlete of the Meet. Sophomore Claire Kim won the 1-mile run with a time of 4:56.30 and qualified for the ECAC championships along with teammates Jamie Liberti and Leah Brogan, who finished third and sixth respectively.
Junior Jeanette Curtis went on to win the 55m hurdles in 8.94. Sophomore Stacy Kim won the 3000m in 9:53.76 as fellow sophomore Brittany Middlebrooks and Morgan placed fourth and fifth in the 60m dash.
Penn also performed well in the field events with senior captain Charity Payne winning the shot put and qualifying for the ECAC championship with a throw of 13.62m. In the long jump, freshmen Whitney Tagliavini and Camille Richard finished second and third respectively.
Despite only winning one event, the Penn men's team had a good showing at the Sykes-Sabock Championship at Penn State, placing sixth against stiff national competition. Senior Courtney Jaworski won the 800m with a time of 1:49.62 with sophomore Tim Kaijala finishing third, clocking in at 1:50.91.
Kaijala hopes that the experience at Penn State will come in handy at the Heptagonal Championships, which will be held in two weeks at Dartmouth.
"This being the last race before Heps, we really wanted to get some good times just in preparation for Heps coming up," Kaijala said.
Penn's men's 4x400m Relay team, which included Jaworski, freshmen Sam Shepard and Kevin Benjamin and senior Joel Miller finished fourth with a time of 3:16.44.
Unfortunately for the Quakers, their field athletes had a tough meet with no pole vaulters being able to clear a height including sophomore Kyle Calvo, who had previously qualified for the NCAA provisional championship in the heptathlon.
With these meets out of the way, the men's and women's teams are focused on Heps.
"For Heps we really need to put all the pieces together. We have a lot of good guys that have run a lot of fast times, all at different meets, but we really need everyone to run their fastest times at Heps," Kaijala said. "A lot of guys expect a lot from themselves. Just the feeling that we weren't quite there I think is going to give a lot of guys motivation for Heps."
