LEWISBURG, Pa. / NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. – Saturday was a banner day for the Geneva College track and field teams, who split up into two groups, with a few distance runners heading to Bucknell for the Bison Outdoor Classic, while the rest of the squad competed at the Westminster Invitational.  A total of four school records were broken across the two meets.

Three of those records were broken by the Golden Tornadoes who competed at Bucknell.  Sophomore Matt Otto broke the school record in the 10,000-meter race, which has stood for 13 years.  Otto finished the race with a time of 31:26.00, which placed him sixth in the unseeded race ahead of multiple Division I and Division II runners.

Senior Hailey Carroll broke her own school record in the 1500-meter race at Bucknell, finishing with a time of 4:30.12, which placed her 21^st in the invitational race that consisted of 84 runners, mostly Division I runners.  That time is the 11^th fastest time in Division III heading into this weekend.

Senior Carmen Medvit broke her own school record in the 5000-meter race at Bucknell, finishing with a time of 17:07.95, which is the 10^th fastest time in the Division III heading into the weekend.  Her time was 37^th overall among the 85 runners racing, again primarily Division I runners.

In addition to those three at Bucknell, seniors Eli Eisenberger (5000-meters) and Tommy Corbin (10,000-meters), along with sophomore Ethan Haring (3000-meter steeplechase), all ran strong times in their races that place them in the top two of any runners so far this year in the Presidents' Athletic Conference.

Junior Isaac Nirella was one of the Golden Tornadoes that competed at Westminster, and he broke the school record in the pole vault which has stood since 1982, clearing 4.67 meters, which placed him third overall behind two vaulters from Penn State.

Most of the track and field team participated at the Westminster Invitational, and sophomores Audrey McAlister and Abe Konneh both brought home first-place finishes.  McAlister won the 10,000-meters with a time of 39:00.19, while Konneh won the 100-meters with a time of 10.86 seconds.

In addition to Konneh in the 100-meters, freshmen Alex Mastoris (11.22 seconds) and Karim Ouardirhi (11.25 seconds) finished eighth and ninth, respectively.

Freshman Titus Mathews finished third in the 400-meter race with a time of 49.51 seconds.  He also ran on the 4x400m relay team that placed third overall, along with senior Seth Tyson and freshmen Tyler Boyle and Amiri Copeland, finishing with a time of 3:27.04.  Freshman Ryan Kosydar added a fifth-place finish in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 58.25 seconds.

The jumpers had a strong day for the men.  Freshman Stanford Webb finished third in the long jump with a distance of 6.58 meters.  Graduate student Jack Garvin placed sixth in the long jump (6.42 meters), seventh in the high jump (1.91 meters) and eighth in the triple jump (13.01 meters).  Copeland finished seventh in the triple jump (13.01 meters) and eighth in the long jump (6.25 meters). 

For the women, sophomore Olivia Seetoo and junior Katelyn Mathews both cleared 1.52 meters in the high jump, which placed them third and sixth, respectively.

Junior Lydia Nagel finished third in the 3000-meter steeplechase with a time of 12:05.06, while sophomore Sara Vos placed seventh in the 400-meter race with a time of 1:01.46.

Senior Allison Standish led the throwers, placing fifth in both the hammer throw (45.88 meters) and shot put (11.49 meters), while senior Emily Garvin placed ninth in the javelin with a throw of 32.55 meters.

Track and field will return to action next Saturday at the Baldwin Wallace Sparky Adams Invitational.