Striver and Alberici's first-place finishes lead Marauders at Princeton Invitational

Sunday, February 23

Princeton, NJ

11:00 AM

Millersville University

Princeton Invitational

Striver and Alberici's first-place finishes lead Marauders at Princeton Invitational

2/23/2020 3:31:00 PM | Women's Indoor Track and Field

Results

By: Ethan Hulsey, Director of Athletic Communications

PRINCETON, N.J. - Aliyah Striver posted one of the nation's best marks in the shot put, and Katy Alberici won the triple jump with a career-best leap to lead the Millersville University women's track and field team Sunday at the Princeton Invitational.

MEET HIGHLIGHTS
• Striver's third toss in the shot put landed 49-2 1/4, which was nearly a full foot further than her previous career best. Striver won Sunday's event by 11 3/4 inches over Penn's Maura Kimmel. Striver now holds the eighth-best mark in all of Division II.
• Alberici jumped 35-61/2 on her second attempt in the triple jump, which was good enough to win the event and also stand as one of the PSAC's top 20 jumps of the season.
• Destinee Holloman turned in a pair of top-four finishes. She finished third in the long jump with a jump of 17-4 3/4 and placed fourth in the 60-meter dash with a time of 7.79--just .06 off of her PR. Alberici (8.25), Gabriela Karch (8.29) and Aurora Conrad (8.32) also reached the finals in the 60 and placed fifth, sixth and seventh respectively.
• Madison Martin's runner-up finish in the weight throw (55-0 3/4) led a quartet of Marauders in the top eight. Striver finished fourth (50-3 1/2), Stephanie Garner placed seventh (47-5 3/4) and Hannah Woefling (41-2 1/2) finished eighth.
• Lyric Williams placed second in the 400-meter dash with a time of 1:02.13. Mia Carson ran a 1:02.29 to place third. Marissa Cummings, running the event for the first time, placed fifth with a time of 1:04.85.
• Emily Black ran a personal-best time of 2:30.60 in the 800-meter run and finished sixth.

REACTION FROM COACH ANDY YOUNG
• On what the team accomplished today: "Every week we seem to get better. Although we didn't get any new PSAC marks we did have a lot of indoor PR's today. We also were able to settle who will be running relays at the PSAC Championships."
• On the team's status heading into the PSAC Championships: "The team is improving and pretty healthy so we definitely have a positive attitude toward how PSAC's will go next week."

NOTES
• Striver's win was her fourth of the indoor season. She has finished in the top five in the shot put in all six meets.
• Millersville heads into next week's PSAC Indoor Championships with Martin (weight throw) and Striver (shot put) holding the No. 1 seeds. Holloman is seeded fourth in the 60 and 12th in the long jump. D'Asia Holloman ranks third in the 60-meter hurdles and 15th in the 60. Millersville also owns three of the top seven marks in the weight throw and two of the top seven in the shot put.

UP NEXT
• The two-day PSAC Championships, held in Edinboro, Pa., starts on Friday, Feb. 28 and concludes on March 1.