NEWPORT NEWS, VA - The William and Mary women's track and field team continued its quest for postseason qualifications Friday at the CNU Captain's Invitational, earning two ECAC bids and five event victories. The meet, which was scheduled to continue on Saturday, was shortened to just the first day due to a winter storm in the Hampton Roads area.
Complete Results
Junior
Katie Guevel (Burlington, Kan.) won the pentathlon with a Freeman Center-record total of 3,502 points. The two-time defending CAA Champion in the heptathlon outdoors, Guevel won two of the component events and was second in two more while qualifying for the ECAC Championships in March. After taking second in the first event of the day, the 55m hurdles with a time of 8.46, Guevel cleared the high jump bar at a career-best height of 5-5.25 (1.66m) to win the second event. The third event saw her set an indoor personal-best, putting the shot 36-4.75 (11.09m), and she followed with another indoor personal-best in the long jump, leaping out a distance of 17-7 (5.36m). With victory and the ECAC qualification all but assured heading into the final event, the 800m, Guevel coasted to an easy 2:42.36 to place fourth in the event and win the pentathlon.
Also winning her event in ECAC-qualifying fashion was senior
Nicole Kazuba (Chantilly, Va.), who cleared the bar at 12-6 (3.81m) in the pole vault. Undefeated in three vaults so far this season, Kazuba has won 23 events in her career, and Friday's vault was the 10th-best indoor effort in school history. Classmate
Jennifer Garrott (Burke, Va.) tied for third in the event with a clearance of 11-0.25 (3.36m), her second-best vault ever.
Senior
Ashley Williams (Williamsburg, Va.) won her second weight throw in as many weeks, heaving the 20-lbs implement out 52-2.5 (15.91m) to win by more than five feet. Taking second was sophomore
Natalie Baird (Stafford, Va.) with a throw of 46-11.75 (14.32m), almost six feet beyond third place herself.
The Tribe also won each of the distance relays Friday night, and added a second and third-place in the relays as well. In the distance medley relay, the team of
Katie Buenaga (Greenville, Del.),
Dana Harvey (Mechanicsville, Va.),
Kelly McElroy (Wyomissing, Pa.), and
Meghan Burns (Coopersburg, Pa.) took gold in 12:26.36, and the quartet of
Brittany Sevachko (Centreville, Va.),
Elizabeth Crowley (Blue Point, N.Y.),
Avery Mattingly (Blacksburg, Va.), and
Heather Beichner (Cary, N.C.) took second in 12:33.03.
The 4x800m relay champions were the sophomore quartet of Sevachko, Mattingly,
Glennis Lofland (Crozier, Va.), and
Amelia Emerson (Nokesville, Va.), timing 9:30.73. The aggregation of Beichner, Buenaga, Burns, and McElroy crossed the line third with a time of 9:41.96. Senior
Alyssa Gaeto (Brentwood, Tenn.) rounded out the day's notable performers, taking third in the open long jump with a leap of 16-6 (5.03m), and finishing seventh in the preliminaries of the 60m dash with a time of 8.30 seconds.
The Tribe will return to action next Saturday, February 6, by returning to Newport News and CNU for the Vince Brown Invitational.
