NEW YORK, N.Y. -- The Cornell women's track team had a terrific weekend, highlighted by an impressive team victory at the New York Road Runners “College Night at the Armory” on Saturday in New York City and a pair of strong showings on Friday at Boston University's Terrier Classic in the 5000 meters. On Saturday, the women came out on top in the team scoring against nine other teams, scoring 159.5 to out-distance second place Princeton by 10.5 points and Big East power Villanova by over 25 points.

On Friday at the Terrier Classic, sophomores Kelsey Karys and Katie Kellner moved into the all-time top 10 list for Cornell in the 5000, easily bettering the ECAC standard in running against a nationally competitive field. Karys ran 16:45.44 to place seventh and moved to #7 all-time at Cornell while Kellner was eighth in a personal best 16:50.92 to claim #10 all-time at Cornell.

On Saturday, the Big Red finished a terrific weekend with five event wins to go along with 15 top-three finishes and 16 more ECAC qualifiers, as the Big Red now boasts Eastern qualifiers in every event this season. The Big Red's team victory was fueled by junior Melissa Hewitt's three event wins as well as impressive first-place finishes from senior co-captain Kim Standridge and junior Janel Parker. Hewitt came out of the blocks with a fast preliminary round 7.58 in the 60 before matching her personal best of 7.46 in the final to cruise to victory, missing the Ivy record by only .01. She then won the long jump in an ECAC-qualfying 18-10 1/2. She finished her day by cruising to victory in the 200, running 24.55 to claim sole possession of #3 all-time at Cornell in that event. She had great support in her events, as the Big Red had a slew of scorers in the dash and long jump. Senior co-captain Mecha Santos was third in the 60 in a personal best 7.73 (#7 all-time) and then was sixth in a seasonal-best 25.38 in the 200. Meanwhile, freshman Anjelique Parnell moved to #8 all-time in the 60 with a fifth place 7.77. Parnell came back to place second in the long jump at 18-7 and sophomore Rebecca DeLong was fourth at 18-3 while junior Kristin Brandt was fifth at 18-0 1/2 to also score points. 

The Big Red had a particularly good day in the middle distances. Standridge led wire-to-wire in her first 800 of the season, crossing the line in first with a time of 2:10.10 while junior Molly Glantz set a PR to move to #9 all-time at Cornell with a run of 2:10.64 to place second. They were joined as ECAC qualifiers by freshman Lauren Lloyd, who ran 2:13.11 for seventh. Junior Bry Bonavita just missed out on ECAC qualifying and scoring with a ninth place run of 2:14.62. In the 1000, Parker placed first in a personal best of 2:54.67 while senior Alana Levy had a great race to also dip under the ECAC standard in placing third in 2:55.57. Freshman Leanne Fernandes also scored, placing eighth in 3:01.20. Junior Meghan Brown came within a heart-beat of her personal best to place eighth in a competitive mile, running an ECAC-qualifying 4:57.88. In the 3K, a very fast early pace which ended up yielding the third best time in the world this year by reigning NCAA cross country champion Sheila Reid of Villanova (8:56.92) as she quickly strung out the field. Sophomore Cara Costich set a personal best to place tenth in 10:01.29 while classmates Genna Hartung (10:07.70) and Kate Rosettie (10:10.55) were eleventh and twelfth.

After Brandt's scoring effort in the long jump, she then came back to get second in the triple jump in an ECAC-qualifying 38-11 and freshman Jennnifer Bush was sixth at 37-3.  In the high jump, senior co-captain Kim Lienhoop was seventh and freshman Sarah Udelhofen was eighth as both cleared 5-5. Sophomore Claire Dishong was eighth in the vault at 11-1 3/4. Junior Dani Silas had another very good day, equaling the ECAC standard in the prelims of the 60 hurdles by running 8.80 before placing third in the final at 8.81; junior Karen Schillinger ran 9.17 to get eighth. In the 400, Kelsey Reimnitz continued her fine season with a second place 56.98 to again go under the ECAC standard and freshman Ryan Woolley continued her come-back from mononucleosis with a fifth-place run of 78.90 in the 500. The Big Red got another good boost in the throws as sophomore Victoria Imbesi was third in the shot put at 45-2 1/2 (an ECAC qualifier for the second straight week) while senior Cassie Schweighofer was sixth in a seasonal best 43-1 1/2. Schweighofer came back in the weight to tie teammate Erin Rossi for seventh with a throw of 49-5 1/2. 

The Big Red had a pair of third place and seasonal best showings in the relays. Fernandes, Parker, Levy and Brown teamed up to run 9:13.04 in the 4X800 and in the 4X400, freshman Ebolutalese Airewele, Reimnitz, Glantz and Standridge ran 3:48.34.

Complete results from the Armory can be found here:

Terrier Results can be found at:

Next up for the Big Red is the Sykes-Sabock Challenge at Penn State on Saturday, February 5th. The Big Red then hosts the Kane Invitational on February 11-12 and then the Deneault Memorial on February 19th before returning to the Armory on February 26-27 for the Indoor Heps.