Chippewa Track and Field Wraps up Weekend in Knoxville, Rochester

Saturday, April 6

Knoxville, TN

All Day

Central Michigan University

University of Tennessee

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Chippewa Track and Field Wraps up Weekend in Knoxville, Rochester

4/6/2024 6:39:00 PM | Track & Field

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Peyton Korytkowski Runs 10th-Fastest 100h in CMU History

By: Katherine Schultz

ROCHESTER, Mich./KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Central Michigan Track and Field wrapped up its busy weekend on Saturday with the final day of the Tennessee Invitational and the one-day Golden Grizzlies Invitational at Oakland University.

Peyton Korytkowski shined for CMU in Knoxville, finishing the 100m hurdles in 14.15 seconds, which allowed her into the CMU record book for 10^th fastest 100h time.

Also for CMU in Tennessee on Saturday were Chesney Wilke, Libby Munderloh and Maija Rettelle, finishing the 800m in 15^th, 32^nd and 33^rd, respectively.

Annie Bennett was 16^th in the 5000m and Kaitlynn Rush finished 24^th in the 100m. Payton Sabourin and Emma Francis competed in the 400m, finishing 11^th and 33^rd, respectively.

In the shot put, Emily McLean was 8^th and freshman Victoria Merrick finished 13^th, marking a new personal best throw of 12.66m.

Capping the weekend in Knoxville was the 4x100 relay team of Rush, Sabourin, Korytkowski and Sarah Daniel, who finished in 47.27 for 9^th place.

In Rochester, 14 Chippewa track and field student-athletes competed.

CMU freshmen Emma Janesak and Emma Netzel competed in their first collegiate 3000m steeplechase, finishing 4^th and 8^th, respectively. Janesak finished in 11:30.98, Netzel in 11:46.33.

Ambria Nagel and Lauren Hasty ran the 1500m. Nagel finished 14^th, Hasty 26^th.

Jessie Gibbins, Jaci Rife, Jolie Fisher and Amelia Gouin competed in the 800m for CMU. Gibbins finished 10^th, Rife 22^nd, Fisher 25^th and Gouin 36^th.

All three competing CMU runners finished in the top five in the 400m, with Ericka Bigham (3^rd) leading the charge in 57.97. Nicole Olivieri was 4^th, Emma Fountain 5^th.

Fountain, alongside Sky Austin, also ran the 200m. Fountain finished 16^th. Austin, a freshman, was 20^th, having also competed in the 100m preliminaries.

Claire Kavanagh and Ereka Risner competed in the hammer throw to cap things off in the field section for CMU. Kavanagh was 13^th with a mark of 37.73. Risner finished 18^th.

CMU is scheduled to host the Chippewa Challenge on Friday, April 12, CMU's first outdoor meet in over ten years. It is set to take place at the newly renovated Lyle Bennett Outdoor Track in Mount Pleasant.

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