Norton, MA --- With 25 total top-10 finishes, the WPI women's indoor track and field team placed fifth overall at the Lyons Invitational on Friday evening, hosted by Wheaton College.
 
As a team, WPI totaled 42.5 points in the fifth place finish out of seven teams. Coast Guard captured the team title with 117.5 points, followed by Colby (92) and Wheaton (89.5) in the top three.
 
Freshman Ella Stone (Branford, CT) delivered WPI's top field performance of the meet, finishing second in the long jump with a mark of 5.04 meters. Senior Katy Gorden (Wayne, NJ) added a podium finish in the shot put, placing third with a throw of 10.31 meters.
 
On the track, sophomore Madisen McLeod (Ledyard, CT) turned in the Engineers' top running finish, placing third in the 60-meter hurdles with a personal-best time of 9.82. Freshman Addison Collins (Tyngsboro, MA) followed with a sixth-place effort in 9.94.
 
Senior Sophia Reynolds (Andover, NH) paced WPI in the mile, finishing fifth overall with a personal-best time of 5:22.40, while sophomore Catherine Daly (Groton, MA) followed in seventh.
 
The Engineers posted three top-10 finishes in the 600 meters, led by senior Bethany Brown (Allentown, PA), who placed fourth in 1:42.57. Freshman Sabrina Cady (Lowell, MA) finished fifth, and senior Bailey Allmon (Woodbine, MD) added a ninth-place showing.
 
In the 800 meters, junior Maeve Steckley (Rochester, NY) recorded a fourth-place finish in 2:25.11. Seniors Lauren Coutu (Baldwinville, MA) and sophomore Caetlyn Embree (Sherborn, CT) followed in eighth and ninth, respectively.
Sophomore Julia Fronc (Plaistow, NH) added a fourth-place effort in the 200 meters, crossing the line in 28.44.
 
WPI collected multiple top-10 results in the throws. Along with Gorden's third-place finish in the shot put, freshman Joselyn Smith (Strong, ME) placed sixth and sophomore Emma Conway (Suffield, CT) finished ninth. In the weight throw, sophomore Sydney Shilts (Flemington, NJ) led the Engineers with a sixth-place finish, followed by Smith (seventh), Gorden (eighth), and freshman Reese Dyson (Schwenksville, PA) in 10th.
 
Junior Charly Painter (Littleton, MA) contributed a fourth-place finish in the pole vault, clearing 2.40 meters. Triple jump competition rounded out the individual events for WPI. Collins led the Engineers with a fifth-place jump of 10.45 meters. Stone placed eighth, while freshman Shayna Hailey (Stoughton, MA) finished ninth and recorded a personal-best mark of 10.26 meters.
 
WPI also factored into the mixed 4x400-meter relay, placing two teams in the top five. The quartet of Cady, Gabriel D'Amour (Somers, CT), Samantha Alley (Randolph, NJ), and Jackson Sobelman (Redding, CT) finished fourth in 3:55.82, while Steckley, Anthony Minichiello (Burlington, MA), Lexie Abrams (Lowell, MA), and Everett Mosher (Chester, VT) followed closely behind in fifth at 3:56.06.
 
The Engineers return to action on Friday, January 30, at the BU Terrier Classic in Boston, MA.
 
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