Runnin’ Bulldogs Finish Seventh at 2019 Big South Indoor Track & Field Championships

Friday, February 15

Lynchburg, Va.

Gardner-Webb University

2019 Big South Conference Indoor Track & Field Championships

Final Results (PDF)Highlights

Photo by: © Todd Drexler, BigSouthPhotos.com

February 16, 2019 | Track & Field

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LYNCHBURG, Va. – The Gardner-Webb women's indoor track and field team took home a seventh place finish at the 2019 Big South Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships, taking place at the Liberty Indoor Track Complex in Lynchburg, Va.

The Runnin' Bulldogs finished with 32 total points to place seventh overall. Hampton was crowed the overall team champions.

Three new personal bests were set in Saturday's events.

Karin Sastre took home All-Conference honors in the pole vault, placing third with a mark of 3.65 meters, setting a new PR with a mark that ranks as the third-best in GWU history. Louise Schmidtgen finished fifth at 3.35 meters., a new personal record.

Sastre was also named to the Big South's All-Academic team.

Petra Jakeljic finished fourth in the weight throw with a distance of 17.31 meters. Cailen Blaire finished seventh with a toss of 14.98 meters, followed by Taliyah Wade in eighth at 14.07 meters, a new PR. Arleasia McGee placed 16^th with a mark of 11.91 meters.

Diviana Forrest placed sixth in the 400-meter dash finals, timing in at 58.51 seconds.

In the 4x400-meter relay, the team of Diviana Forrest, Khalilah Conway, Hannah Sparacio, and Hannah Jones finished sixth with a time of 4:02.02

Sandra Bolstad finished 16^th in the mile run, clocking in at 5:55.91.