Hankey Medals in 400 hurdles, CMU Lands 9th at MAC Outdoors

AKRON, Ohio — Upon conclusion of the 2023 Mid-American Conference Outdoor Track & Field Championships Saturday afternoon, the Chippewas slotted into ninth overall with 57 points in the University of Akron-hosted event.

For the second time this week Olivia Hankey found the podium, this time coming with a bronze medal in the 400-meter hurdles. Hankey came within a half-second of a sub-60 second performance in the event to accompany her sixth-place javelin performance from Thursday afternoon. Emma Francis joined Hankey in scoring for the event with a fifth-place finish in a personal-best 1:01.78, improving two places from her qualifying run on Thursday.

Less than two feet from a medal, Aliyah Boeve checked in a 45.83-meter discus in Saturday's opening event for fourth joining Hankey and Mohogany Wells (hammer) for three points-paying performances from the throwers this week in Akron.

Another repeat scorer for the week, Hayley Manners bounded for a 12.21-meter output in the triple jump for fifth. Manners collected a bronze medal in Friday's long jump.

Both relay squads—the bookends for Saturday's on-track slate—notched season-best performances for fifth in the 4x100 and seventh in the 4x400.

The short relay unit of Reghan Draper—who came just five one-hundredths of qualifying for the individual 100-meter dash—Peyton Korytkowski, Manners and Angelina Horn clocked in a 46.26-second attempt.
Korytkowski later joined Francis, Annie Laurenz and Emma Fountain to knock nearly six seconds off of the quartet's season-high in a 3:49.41 performance.

At the time of release, Central Michigan Track & Field stands to send two representatives to the NCAA East Preliminaries in two weeks:

Hayley Manners: Long Jump, 22nd; 6.28 meters at Louisville's Clark Wood Invitational
Emily Paupore: Steeplechase, 41st; 10:25.73 at Grand Valley's Extra Weekend Meet

Paupore was responsible for CMU's top finish for the week as she earned silver in the MAC's run of the 3,000-meter steeplechase Friday.

The top 48 marks in each event for each region qualify for the regional preliminaries for the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships. The East's qualifying event will take place in Jacksonville, Fla. May 24-27 at the University of North Florida. The regional preliminary schedule features the long jump at 6:00 p.m. Thursday, May 25 while the steeplechase is scheduled for 5:40 p.m. the following Saturday.

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Players Mentioned

Aliyah Boeve

Reghan Draper

Emma Fountain

Emma Francis

Olivia Hankey

Angelina Horn

Peyton Korytkowski

Annie Laurenz

Hayley Manners

Emily Paupore

Mohogany Wells