[Women's Track & Field] Women's Track & Field Compete at KWC Invitational

This past Friday, April 6th, the Women's Track & Field program competed at the Kentucky Wesleyan Invitational.  On this extremely windy and cold day, the team scored 12 points and finished 9th out of 10 teams.  

800m: Ashlie Carpenter was the only Bearcat this week in the 800m run.  She finished 16th of 19 and finished in 3:12.08.

1500m: Madeline Jones was the top runner finishing 16th, in a time of 5:43.26.  Madeline was followed by Mackenzie Jackson and Ashlie Carpenter.  Mackenzie finished 19th overall and ran 6:18.23, this was the fastest 1500m that Mackenzie had ran since 2016 when she ran 5:42 at the Centre Twilight meet.  Mackenzie out-kicked Ashlie Carpenter who crossed in 6:20.17 finishing 19th overall.

Kassi Gilbert jumped in both the Triple Jump and Long Jump.  She notched PR's in both events.  In Long Jump she notched a best jump of 4.26m and in Triple Jump nearly hitting 10 meters with a best jump of 9.94m.  Kassi's Triple Jump PR was .8m or 2 foot and 7 inches further than her previous PR of 9.14m.

Shot Put: Jordan Blemker finished 8th overall and through a new PR of 8.89m  bumping up from her previous PR of 8.72m. 

Discus: Jordan Blemker finished 8th overall and on her first discus throw of the night threw a new PR of 23.45 jumping up from previous PR of 18.32m.