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Women's track and field establishes SLIAC record in points in third straight outdoor championship

Women's track and field establishes SLIAC record in points in third straight outdoor championship
Posted: Apr 28, 2023

GREENVILLE, Ill. - The women's track and field team celebrated their third consecutive SLIAC outdoor championship with a new SLIAC championship record of 341 team points.  The Panthers broke their own conference record, which they set last year, by three points thanks to 12 individual golds and an additional gold in the 4x400 relay. 

The Panthers picked up two of their golds on Friday night when Anna Beth Vancil and Talahiva Talanoa started the scoring. Vancil picked up her first outdoor gold medal with a winning height of 5 feet-1.75 inches in the high jump. Talanoa took top honors in the hammer throw with a mark of 145-4 for her first collegiate gold.

Greenville continued their pace on Saturday's events with Tawny Rodriguez and Ashley Smith adding more golds from the Panthers throwers. Rodriguez won her third straight gold in the discus, beating her own SLIAC championship record with a mark of 133-3. Smith took gold in the shot put with a mark of 39-4. 

With throwing events wrapped up, the Panthers went to the track where Brook Schutt, Olivia Mansfield, and Gretchen Carie picked up wins. Schutt (5,000 meters) and Mansfield (800 meters) each picked up their first collegiate gold medals. Carie notched her second straight gold in the 3000 Steeplechase. 

Cayden Sharp wrapped up her record-setting career with four more gold medals this weekend, extending her conference record to 17 career gold medals. Sharp picked up golds in the long jump (19-3.25), 100 hurdles (14.66 seconds), 100-meter dash (12.19 seconds), and 200-meter dash (25.48 seconds) and set new SLIAC championship records in each of the four events.  She added another two medals for a total of 24 career medals which also extended her SLIAC record.

One of the events Sharp lost out on gold in was the triple jump where she finished second.  A historic jump by her teammate Sara Yakana of 38-0 set a new championship record, beating Sharp's previous record by 9.5 inches.

The Greenville 4x400 relay team of Alexis Roberts, Olivia Mansfield, Vanessa Compton, and Eyonna Owens extended the Panther title run in that event to three years.

Greenville's team will return to the track at Monmouth on May 6.