Collins Sets Discus School Record at Hopkins/Loyola Invitational

David M. Higgins II, Publisher/Editor

Apr 25

BALTIMORE, Md. – Sophomore Meaghan Collins (Pocomoke City, Md./Pocomoke) established a new school record in the discus as the St. Mary's College of Maryland women's outdoor track & field team finished 22nd at the Johns Hopkins University/Loyola University Maryland Invitational on Saturday. The Seahawks posted five personal records (PR) and one school record on the day.

Olivia Magaletta at Seahawk Invitational (4.2.22)

How It Happened

Collins placed eighth in the discus with a school-record throw of 34.26m, surpassing her previous school mark of 32.20m set last weekend at the Goucher College Blue & Gold Classic. She also finished 12th in the shot put with 9.21m and 15th in the hammer with 31.43m.
Sophomore Morgan Marzec (Delmar, Md./Salisbury Christian) notched a PR of 22.69m in the hammer for 20th while taking 18th in the shot put with 7.90m and 23rd in the discus with 19.34m.
Junior Ariat Ojulu (Baltimore, Md./Dundalk) led the Seahawks in the 400m with a 20th-place finish in 1:03.54 while sophomore Madeleine Blaisdell (Bethesda, Md./Walt Whitman) clocked a PR of 1:07.68 for 29th.
Ojulu also picked up a 31st-place finish in the 200 with a wind-aided time of 27.01.
Sophomore Olivia Magaletta (Columbia, Md./Maryvale Prep) registered a PR of 6.41m in the shot put for 21st while adding a 27th-place finish in the discus with 15.19m.
Blaisdell paced St. Mary's in the 1500m with a PR of 5:02.22 for 33rd while first-year Ariana Lecouras (Severna Park, Md./Severna Park) came in 41st in the 800m in 2:50.59. Lecouras also recorded a time of 5:36.03 for a 62nd-place finish in the 1500m.
First-year Kendal Eldridge (Ellicott City, Md./Marriotts Ridge) rounded out the Seahawk competitors with a 43rd-place finish in the 800m in 3:03.88 and a 66th-place finish in the 1500m in 5:56.48.