PHILADELPHIA, Pa. -- The Cornell women's track and field team got some work in to open the outdoor season when it competed in Saturday's Penn Challenge at Franklin Field. The Big Red had two top 10 school marks, an event winner and three runner-up finishes in a meet that included competitors from eight schools, including Penn State, Villanova and Ivy rivals Penn and Princeton.
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Victoria Atkinson won the pole vault by clearing 3.95m (12-11 1/2), besting her career-best mark and stamping the fourth-best height in school history.
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Abby Nonnenberg was the runner-uo in the discus with a best toss of 43.90m (144-0).
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Ziling Liu took second in the javelin (43.46m, 142-7), good for the seventh-best mark all-time at Cornell.
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Tia Taylor led a 2-4-5 finish in the triple jump, with her 11.22m (36-9 3/4).