WOOSTER, Ohio – The Baldwin Wallace University women's outdoor track and field team finished fifth at the two-day Wooster Invitational inside John P. Papp Stadium. The meet featured schools from NCAA Division I, II and III as well as a junior college participant.
The second nationally-ranked Yellow Jackets were fifth of 15 teams with 65 points. The University of Mount Union was the champion with 111 points.
BW led by senior All-American multi-event athlete Melanie Winters (Stow/Stow-Munroe Falls) as she won the 100-meter hurdles and high jump. Winters won the 100-hurdles in a season-best time of 14.38 seconds and won the high jump with a season-best mark of 5 feet and 7.25 inches.
In addition, senior jumper Abby Snow (Massillon/Jackson) won the triple jump and was fifth in the long jump. Snow had a career-best mark of 35'4 in the triple jump and a career-best mark of 17'3.5" in the long jump.
Senior All-Ohio Athletic Conference thrower Maggey Urban (Cleveland/St. Joseph Academy) won the hammer throw with a season-best mark of 167'11.
Junior jumper Erin Kasper (Amherst/Marion Steele) was third in the high jump and ninth in the long jump. Kasper had a career-best mark of 5'6 in the high jump and a season-best mark of 16'6" in the long jump.
Sophomore hurdler Carlynn Arthur (Danville) finished ninth in the 400-meter hurdles in a career-best time of 1:11.65.
Senior jumper Marissa Hellisz (Parma/Normandy) was fifth in the triple jump with a season-best mark of 30'8.5".
Sophomore jumper Rachel Tucker (Canton/McKinley) was sixth in the triple jump with a career-best mark of 30'7".
Junior hurdler Lindsey Armstrong (Ashtabula/Geneva) was eighth in the 100-hurdles in a season-best time of 16.12.
Junior thrower Natasha Thomas (Cleveland/Holy Name) was eighth in the hammer throw with a career-best mark of 133'04".
The Yellow Jackets are back in action on Friday and Saturday, April 8-9 when they travels to Alliance to compete in the John Homon Open hosted by the University of Mount Union inside Mount Union Stadium.