Women's Indoor Track and Field Opens 2024-25 Season Outdoors at Ben Martin First Chance Meet

OAK RIDGE, Tenn.- The women's track and field program started the indoor portion of their schedule on Wednesday.  The team competed at the Ben Martin First Chance Meet, a small meet held outdoors and featuring four other teams from the Appalachian Athletic Conference.

The Lady Bulldogs had one student-athletes hit a NAIA National Standards to qualify them for the national championship meet. Samantha DeGrace hit the National "A" Standard in the High Jump while also winning the event with a mark of 1.70m.

DeGrace also won the 60m Hurdles with a time of while Morgan Stancil won the 60m Dash (7.99) and the 200m Dash (26.68) and Molly Woodby won the 3000m Race with a time of 11:32.81. 

Other perfomances include:

60m
Grace Clemens (2nd, 8.10)
Joelle Bixby (5th, 8.26)
Mckenna Hubbard (8th, 8.41)
Sheridan Cruz (9th, 8.56)

200m
Joelle Bixby (6th, 28.79)
Mckenna Hubbard (7th, 28.85)
Sheridan Cruz (8th, 28.96)

600m
Reagan Goforth (9th, 1:56.56)
Victoria Verran (10th, 1:56.97)
Chloe Dailey (13th, 2:14.35)

1000m
Molly Woodby (8th, 3:20.73)
Victoria Verran (13th, 3:32.62)
Reagan Goforth (15th, 3:41.16)
Anna-Lise Kirton (20th, 4:38.71)

3000m
Kaelyn Pluta (6th, 12:23.76)

High Jump
Chloe Dailey (2nd, 1.40m)

Shot Put
McKenna Debity (4th, 9.08m)
Addison Costoulas (6th, 8.73m)

Weight Throw
Addison Costoulas (7th, 8.94m)

Tennessee Wesleyan will return to the track, this time indoors, in 2025 at the KMS Invitational on Sunday, January 19.