TAMPA, Fla. -- The Cornell women's track and field team claimed three event wins and made a number of top 10 school list revisions as action concluded at the 2022 South Florida Invitational on Saturday evening. The event concluded the program's spring training trip.
Marguerite Lorenzo led a 1-2-3 Big Red sweep of the high jump with her leap of 1.75m that was just off her career best mark.
Margaux Rawson (1.65m) and
Monique Anderson (1.65m) were just behind.
Ziling Liu won the javelin with a strong series that included a 42.53m toss on her second attempt that held up for the title by better than three feet. That throw ranks as the eighth-best mark of all time, just behind current ESPN personality Sarah Spain.
Victoria Atkinson took a second in the pole vault with a height of 4.00m, a career best and the No. 2 mark in school history, while
Tia Taylor was third in the triple jump with a best of 12.03m on her third jump of the series.
Noelle Elkinton also grabbed a podium spot in the discus with her 45.78m effort.
On the track, All-American
Brooke Overholt ran a 13.80 in the 100 hurdles to gain fourth, the fastest time of her Cornell career and the No. 2 time in school history, but won her specialty 400 hurdles in 59.12, one of just two racers to go under a minute in the event.
Isa Meyers placed second in the 1,500 meters (4:31.80), more than two full seconds clear of third place. The 4x100 relay team composed of
Ama Boham, Isabella Davis,
Jada Smith and
Beatrice Juskeviciute claimed third in 46.45 to close the meet on the podium.