Allen Wins the 3K on Day One of the Penn Relays
4/26/2018 11:29:00 PM | Track and Field
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. – Indiana University track and field open the Penn Relays on Thursday. The highlight of the day was junior Maggie Allen winning the 3,000m.
The Louisville, Ky. native brought home the gold after she ran an outdoor personal best time of 9:16.20, which is the second fastest time in school history. Colette Goudreau set the record of 8:59.74 at the 1987 NCAA Championships. Allen is the first Hoosier to ever win the 3,000m at the Penn Relays.
Junior Haley Harris, freshman Natalie Price, senior Kendell Wiles and redshirt junior Katherine Receveur ran the second fastest distance medley relay time in school history when the crossed the finish line in 11:13.98.
The women's 4x400m consisting of junior Riley Egbula, Kendell Wiles, junior Jeyland Valentin and Natalie Price qualified for the Championship of American Invitational when they finished sixth overall with the time of 3:41.84. The championship will take place on Saturday at 5:40 pm ET.
In the field sophomore Khayla Dawson started the Hoosiers off with a second place finish in the shot put championship. Dawson brought the silver home after she launched the shot put 16.88m (55' 4.5") on her third attempt of the afternoon.
Junior Nycia Ford took bronze in the hammer throw with the mark of 60.57m (198' 8"). In the long jump sophomore Leah Moran tied her personal record of 6.04m (19' 9.75") on her final jump of the night and brought home silver.
The Hoosiers will be back in action at the Penn Relays tomorrow at 9:00 am ET with sophomore William Session and sophomore Dushawn Tunstall in the 400m hurdles. Leah Moran will open the field events on day two in the triple jump at 11:00 am ET.
Tickets for the Penn Relays can be purchased here. USATF will have a live stream of the meet available here. Live results can be found here.
For complete coverage of everything Indiana track and field and cross country, make sure to follow the teams via Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
#GoIU
The Louisville, Ky. native brought home the gold after she ran an outdoor personal best time of 9:16.20, which is the second fastest time in school history. Colette Goudreau set the record of 8:59.74 at the 1987 NCAA Championships. Allen is the first Hoosier to ever win the 3,000m at the Penn Relays.
Junior Haley Harris, freshman Natalie Price, senior Kendell Wiles and redshirt junior Katherine Receveur ran the second fastest distance medley relay time in school history when the crossed the finish line in 11:13.98.
The women's 4x400m consisting of junior Riley Egbula, Kendell Wiles, junior Jeyland Valentin and Natalie Price qualified for the Championship of American Invitational when they finished sixth overall with the time of 3:41.84. The championship will take place on Saturday at 5:40 pm ET.
In the field sophomore Khayla Dawson started the Hoosiers off with a second place finish in the shot put championship. Dawson brought the silver home after she launched the shot put 16.88m (55' 4.5") on her third attempt of the afternoon.
Junior Nycia Ford took bronze in the hammer throw with the mark of 60.57m (198' 8"). In the long jump sophomore Leah Moran tied her personal record of 6.04m (19' 9.75") on her final jump of the night and brought home silver.
The Hoosiers will be back in action at the Penn Relays tomorrow at 9:00 am ET with sophomore William Session and sophomore Dushawn Tunstall in the 400m hurdles. Leah Moran will open the field events on day two in the triple jump at 11:00 am ET.
Tickets for the Penn Relays can be purchased here. USATF will have a live stream of the meet available here. Live results can be found here.
For complete coverage of everything Indiana track and field and cross country, make sure to follow the teams via Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
#GoIU
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