Race Results

COBLESKILL, N.Y.—In the team's second race of the season, Sarah Lawrence College women's cross country placed sixth at the 2016 Steven A. Warde Cross Country Invitational hosted by SUNY Cobleskill on Saturday.

IN SHORT
Sarah Lawrence finish: 6th place - 121 points
Race distance: 5,000 meters
Total teams: 9
Total runners: 83
Winning team: Union College - 52 points

KEY PERFORMANCES
In her first official collegiate 5K, sophomore Rosa Mykyta-Chomsky (Philadelphia, Pa./Germantown Friends School) led the Gryphons across the line in 11th place, posting a time of 21:07. Sophomore Isabel Edmonds (Appleton, Wisc./Appleton North) followed in 26th with a time of 22:11, and classmate Molly Walsh (Yarmouth, Maine/Yarmouth) ran a personal best 22:23 to follow in 27th. Senior Allyson Panton (Westfield, N.J./Westfield) also ran a personal best to earn 31st in 22:55, and junior Katie Shepard (Visalia, Calif./Mount Whitney) rounded out the scoring five with a time of 23:01, good for 33rd place.

PERSONAL BESTS
Junior Katherine Labadie (New Orleans, La./Benjamin Franklin) set a 5K personal best, crossing the line in 23:47 as the sixth-fastest Gryphon and 44th overall. Junior Tiffany Meier (Goleta, Calif./Olive Grove Charter) completed her season debut in 23:56 for 45th place. Melissa Molina (Union, N.J./Roselle Catholic) ran the first 5K of her senior season in 26:52, good for 63rd, and junior Dani Dyen-Shapiro (Estero, Fla./Cypress Lake) ran a personal best of 28:55 for 73rd place.

ROOKIES
First year Natalie Wyse (Tolland, Conn./Tolland) completed her first collegiate 5K with a time of 27:21, earning 67th place overall. Zhe Wu (Guangzhou, China/Nansha College Prep. Acad.) clocked in at 32:18 (78th) in her debut race, and Brooke Remsen (Rye, N.Y./Convent of the Sacred Heart) reached the line in 33:40 (79th).

UP NEXT
Sarah Lawrence travels to Old Westbury, N.Y., for the 2016 NYIT Cross Country Invitational on Saturday, September 17.