Sophomore Jesse Carlin's name was sprinkled all over Penn's roster for the ECAC/IC4A Championships held last weekend in Princeton, New Jersey.
And once again, the Staten Island native showed that she is both an individual and a team star.
Helping the Quakers earn a seventh-place finish out of the 46 teams represented, Carlin took home the individual 400m title, as well as anchoring the 4x100 and 4x400 relays that placed fourth and fifth, respectively.
Carlin now owns the two best outdoor 400m times in school history. Her time of 53.89 was just .27 seconds away from her own record set at the Heptagonal Championships two weeks ago.
But women's track coach Gwen Harris thinks that this is just the beginning for Carlin.
"She's a sophomore," Harris said. "She has time to get down to the time I want her to."
Sophomore Shaunee Morgan also participated in three events. Part of the 4x100 and 4x400 relays, she ran the 200m in 24.40 seconds to take home fifth place.
The distance women had their share of success, too. Stacy Kim ran a 16:57.25 in the 5000m, the seventh-best time in school history, and crossed the finish line seventh.
And the 4x800m relay team rallied to a fourth-place finish.
In the field events, freshman Whitney Tagliavini took fifth in the long jump with a distance of 19'10".
"She's jumped over 19 feet many times this season, something she hadn't done before she got here," Harris said. "When you jump over six meters, you're getting good."
The most impressive finish to her, though, was Shani Boston's performance in the Heptathlon.
Participating in the eight-event competition for the third weekend in a row, Boston notched a fourth-place finish.
"Most [of her competition] had only done it once [in the past two weeks]," Harris said. "I expected her to not even score, but she came out ready to roll."
On the men's side, the team was out to prove itself after a somewhat disappointing finish at Heps earlier this month.
And that's just what the Quakers did. They finished third in a field of 55 teams, just three points behind Ivy rival Cornell.
"It was one of the more positive finishes of the season," Coach Powell said. "We rose back up and it meant a lot to us."
Senior Courtney Jaworski and sophomore Kyle Calvo each took home a first-place finish in their respective events.
Jaworski won the 1500m in 3:44.71 seconds, and Calvo jumped 24'10"' in the long jump to tie for the fourth-best performance in school history.
David Whitehurst took second in the 110m hurdles, runnng a 14.12, behind All-American Richard Phillips from George Mason.
"It was an exciting race, he was with Phillips for seven or eight hurdles," Powell said.
And freshman Anthony Abitante continued his impressive season, placing fourth in the pole vault with a height of 16' 02.75".
Also aiding in the Quakers' third place finish were Michael Hall and Max Weston, who placed second and third in the decathlon, respectively.
"We're used to seeing these results though; we're spoiled," Powell said of his team's top finishers.
For the men, the meet was an important checkpoint, as some of the athletes will head to the NCCA regionals next weekend in North Carolina.
Penn boasts almost a dozen NCAA qualifiers, including Carlin and Jaworski, and that meet will be their last chance to prove themselves this season.
