Photo courtesy of Mount Holyoke College Athletics. Above, Lyons Track and Field member Tessa Lancaster '25 runs in the non-scoring Amherst Spring Fling Track and Field meet on Saturday, April 8.
By Genevieve Zahner ’26
Staff Writer
On Saturday, April 8, Mount Holyoke Track and Field competed in the Amherst Spring Fling meet against Amherst College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Middlebury College, Williams College, Wesleyan University and Brandeis University. While it was a non-scoring meet, several Mount Holyoke team members managed to break personal records while competing.
Tessa Lancaster ’25 finished fourth out of nine competitors in the 5,000-meter run and achieved both a personal best time of 18:25.99 and a fifth-place ranking on Mount Holyoke’s all-time performance record. Emma Doyle ’23 competed in the hammer throw and received a personal record mark of 35.66 meters. Doyle also placed fourth out of 27 competitors in the shot put after throwing a mark of 11.04 meters and third out of 30 competitors in the discus throw after claiming a mark of 32.21 meters.
Other team members who performed personal bests for Mount Holyoke included Em Tetzlaff ’26, who placed 19th in the discus throw with a distance of 25.11 meters. Abby Elliot ’25 placed 17th in the discus throw with a mark of 25.93 meters and also competed in the shot put and hammer throw. Lucy Sternberg ’23 received a season-best in a triple jump of 9.32 meters and also competed in the 100-meter dash and long jump. Greta Trapp ’25, Olivia Johnson ’25 and Bridget Hall ’24 all ran personal records in the 1,500-meter run, with Trapp coming in at 5:12.42, Johnson at 5:15.23 and Hall at 5:16.22.
Lize Brown ’25 placed 10th in the javelin throw, and teammates Erin Siegel ’25, Chloe Broadwell ’25, Evelyn Bushway ’24 and Kristina Busby ’26 also competed in this event. Seigel placed 17th and Broadwell, Bushway and Busby placed 19th, 20th and 21st respectively.
Mount Holyoke Track and Field will next compete at the Jerry Gravel Invitational at Westfield State University on Saturday, April 15, and Lancaster will represent Mount Holyoke at the Connecticut College Silfen Invitational on Friday, April 14.