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GETTYSBURG, Pa. The Gettysburg College women’s track & field team will compete at the Centennial Conference (CC) Outdoor Championships at Muhlenberg College on Saturday.
This will be the first time the Bullets have competed in a conference championship since the indoor season back in March 2020.
Several Bullets find themselves ranked in scoring positions heading into the meet. Athletes must finish among the top-eight to accumulate points.
Senior Diana Bianco Riley (Seekonk, Mass./St. Mary Academy Bay View), juniors Jessica Alessi (Nassau, N.Y./Ichabod Crane), Katherine Mangione (Doylestown, Pa./Villa Joseph Marie), Kathrin O’Brien (Lynchburg, Va./Virginia Episcopal School), and Anna Pienkos (North Haven, Conn./Sacred Heart Academy), sophomore Amanda Addesso (Cheshire, Conn./Cheshire), and freshman Alexa Schauder (Cedar Knolls, N.J./Whippany Park) are Gettysburg’s top-seeded athletes. Alessi enters the meet seeded first in the hammer (124′ 11″). O’Brien is second in the 10,000-meter run (41.52.22), Schauder is third in the pole vault (9’6.25″), Bianco Riley is third in the hammer (111′ 0″), Addesso is third in the 10,000-meter run (43:05.25), and Mangione is third in both the javelin (122′ 7″) and discus (106′ 8″).
Others who are seeded among the top-eight in the conference are:
- Freshman Holly Ferrara (Holland, Pa./Council Rock South) in the javelin (fourth, 122′ 1″).
- Pienkos and Schauder in the high jump (fourth, 4’9.75″ and fifth, 4’9.75,” respectively).
- Alessi in the discus (fifth, 100′ 9″).
- Sophomore Julia Piness (Chatham, N.J./Chatham) in the 400-meter hurdles (sixth, 1:14.99) and 100-meter hurdles (sixth, 17.35).
- Junior Caitlin Yap (Wayne, N.J./Morris Catholic) in the pole vault (seventh, 8’6.25″).
- Freshman Emily O’Hara (Chester Springs, Pa./Downingtown) and junior Georgia Larzelere (Medford, N.J./Shawnee) in the 400-meter dash (seventh, 1:03.42 and eighth, 1:03.47, respectively).
During the season, three athletes either moved into the program’s all-time outdoor top-10 list or climbed the ladder. Schauder and Ferrara both entered the top-10 list earlier this season with Schauder ranking tied for third in the pole vault (9-6 ¼) and Ferrara ranking seventh in the javelin (122-1). Alessi moved up four spots on the top-10 list in the hammer (fifth, 124-11), which she just accomplished last weekend to claim the win.
The participants competing in the hammer will travel to Johns Hopkins University on Friday at 2 p.m. On Saturday, the meet will start at 11:30 a.m. in Allentown, Pa. with the javelin, long jump, high jump, and the 10,000-meter run. *No spectators will be permitted at the outdoor track & field championships due to Centennial Conference COVID-19 policies. Fans can live stream the event and follow along with live scoring.
This story was originally posted on the Gettysburg College Website.