Track & Field places sixth at Marshall Invitational

Saturday, February 12

Huntington, WV

Wright State University

Marshall Invitational

Photo by: Joseph Craven

2/12/2022 6:36:00 PM | Track & Field

Results

The Wright State track and field program placed sixth with 43.5 points at the Marshall Invitational on Saturday afternoon inside the Chris Cline Athletic Complex.

Cierra Lively had WSU's top finish of the day by placing third in the high jump with a clearance of 1.59 meters. Amelia Harlow was close behind in fifth (1.54m), while Melissa Siler and Bekah Robertson each cleared 1.49 meters.

In the 800-meter run, Alicia Neumeier took sixth overall with a personal-record time of 2:22.30. She moved to seventh in the Raider top-10 list with the mark. Kaitlyn Miller also snagged a PR in the event, finishing 13th with a time of 2:27.06. Alycea Ruhlen (2:31.96), Robertson (2:35.64), and Siler (2:40.31) rounded out Raiders in the race.

In addition to the high jump and 800-meter run, Siler ran the 60-meter hurdles in 11.17 and cleared 4.64 meters in the long jump.

Bekah Robertson notched a PR time of 9.58 in the preliminaries of the 60-meter hurdles. She went on to place fifth in the finals at 9:69. The West Chester, Ohio native also took 12th overall in the long jump (4.85m).

As the lone WSU individual in the mile run, Emma Johnson claimed 12th place with a mark of 5:45.73. Nataly Dunes Diaz finished fourth in the 1,000-meter run at 3:23.24.

Emma Carr and Kira Ball raced in the 200-meter and 400-meter dash. Carr posted times of 30.01 and 1:06.83, while Ball finished the events in 32.10 and 1:16.22.

The quartet of Neumeier, Miller, Ruhlen, and Dunes Diaz closed the meet with a fifth-place mark in the 4x400 relay (4:23.18).

The Raiders will have one final tune-up at the Wittenberg Invitational on Saturday, January 19, before heading to Youngstown State for the Horizon League Indoor Championships the following weekend.