Virginia Beach, Va. – Freshman
Sylvia Kashak set a Duquesne program record and earned a silver medal in the 1,000 meters to lead the Dukes on the final day of the Atlantic 10 Indoor Track & Field Championships. Duquesne finished seventh with 50 team points.
Kashak clocked a school-record 2:47.00, finishing just 0.14 seconds behind the champion. Her time broke the previous program record set by Haley Pisarcik in 2014 and marked the first sub-2:50 performance in school history.
Kashak's 2:47.00 also surpassed the previous Atlantic 10 Indoor Championship meet record, as each of this season's top four finishers eclipsed the former mark.
The freshman from Jefferson Hills, Pa., capped a historic rookie indoor season with the silver medal and school record. She won three meets during the season and moved into the program's all-time top five in the 800 meters and mile in addition to her record-setting 1,000 meter performance.
After running a personal-best 2:51.74 in Friday's preliminaries to qualify, Kashak improved her time by more than four seconds in Saturday's final. She accounted for eight team points in the 1,000m and also helped the 4x800-meter relay (
Cydney Blahovec,
Reagan Ryen,
Kate Saum, Kashak) place fourth in 9:12.03 to add five more points.
DAY ONE
Freshman
Brandi Brozeski earned a bronze medal in the pentathlon to lead the Dukes on Friday. Freshman
Isabella Costa and senior
Eva Leatherman added points with sixth- and seventh-place finishes, while
Rose Kuchera placed sixth in the long jump.
POINT SCORERS
Sophomore
Rose Kuchera scored in all three of her events over the weekend. She placed fourth in the triple jump (12.32m / 40-5) and sixth in the 60m hurdles final (8.78) on Saturday after finishing sixth in the long jump on Friday.
Junior
Caroline Garbe cleared 1.70m (5-7) to finish fourth in the high jump, while freshman
Isabella Costa went over a season-best 1.64m (5-4.5) to place seventh.
Senior
Madelyn Moretti tied her season best in the shot put with a 13.15m (43-1.75) mark to finish fifth.
Both relays scored on Saturday. The 4x800m relay (Blahovec, Ryen, Saum, Kashak) finished fourth, and the 4x400m relay of
Melani Schmidt,
Isabella Costa,
Eva Leatherman and
Selma Bajgoric ran a season-best 3:50.18 to place fifth.
PERSONAL BESTS
First-year
Lauren Ciuca posted a season-best 10:04.49 to finish 12th in the 3,000 meters.
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