Penn State Results

The 2nd meet of the New Year is over and the STJ continues to show good progress with Big East and ECAC qualifiers at the Penn State Open.

Leading the way was Senior Phobay Kutu-Akoi with a Big East and ECAC qualifier of 24.77 in the 200 meters to go with her 60m qualifer at Yale last weekend. Phobay finished 7th in the 200 and 4th in her specialty 60m dash with a time of 7.58. Phobay was closely followed by fellow classmate Paula Rennalls who also qualified for the Big East and the ECAC in the 200 in a 9th place finish with a time of 24.82. In addition, Paula qualified for the Big East in the 60m dash with a time of 7.80.

Sophomore Kim Piard made also got her Big East and ECAC qualifiers in the 500 meters while finishing 6th in the 500m with a time of 1:15.98

The middle distance squad also showed their metal with senior Tyneka Greene getting her Big East and ECAC qualifiers with a 2nd place finsh of 2:54.75. Tyneka was joined in Big East qualification by Junior Pam Petruski in the 800m with a 3rd place finish in a time of 2:16:05.

In the field, Priscilla Fredricks repeated her High Jump win of last year and broke her meet record with with a jump of 1.74m (5-8 1/2). Priscilla has already comfortably qualified for the Big East and ECAC, she's now hunting for an NCAA provisional qualifying mark of 1.78m (5-10.)

Freshman Chanel King continued to show good progress in Weight and the Shot Put with PRs of 14.08m (46-2 1/2) and 12.47m (40-11) respectively