Hanover, Indiana – On Saturday, March 30^th, your Mount St. Joseph University Track & Field team traveled to Hanover College to participate in the Hanover Invitational. The Lions landed 25 individual events in the top 8 with 5 of those events being personal best performances. 
 
For the women's running events, Grace Kruthaupt got the day kicked off with 2 top 8 performances on the day. Kruthaupt secured a 7^th place finish in the 100 M dash with a final time of 13.82 seconds along with an 8^thplace finish in the 100 M hurdles with a time of 18.76 seconds. Along with this, Bella Calhoun finished her 100 M hurdles in 18.42 seconds landing her a 6^th place spot. Later in the day, Julia Gooding had an impressive 800 M showing finishing in 5^th with a final time of 2:34.30. On the distance side of the track, Kayla Hess ran a time of 5:20.97 getting her a 6^th place spot. 

Moving along to the field events, the women had 4 different athletes secure 8 top 8 spots. For starters, Asia Branch placed 4^th in discus with a farthest throw of 36.42 M and 7^th in shot put with a throw of 10.81 M. Jill Wilhelm also showed out in the throwing events securing an 8^th place finish in discus along with a 3^rd place finish in the javelin throw. Wilhelm threw 32.38 M in discus and 37.47 M in javelin throw. Next, with an impressive 3 top 8 performances, Madalyn Hudnall got 6^th in the hammer throw with a personal best throw of 37.32 M, 2^nd in the javelin throw with a distance of 37.72 M, and 4^th in shot put with a throw of 11.26 M. And last but not least, Londyn Frazier secured a 7^th place spot in the triple jump with a jump of 8.57 M. 
 
Looking at the men's running events, Diego Yun had a great meet with 2 top 8 performances. Yun finished 7^thin the 100 M dash and 6^th in the 200 m dash with times of 11.24 seconds and 22.89 seconds. Saien Wright also had a great day finishing 3^rd in the 110 M hurdle event with a final time of 16.27 seconds. Along with this, Zach McKenna ran the 400 M in 53.52 seconds which secured him an 8^th place finish. In terms of distance events, Alex Taft secured a 5^th place finish in the 5000 M run, and Alex Schmidt finished 3^rd in the 10,000 M run. Taft finished with a time of 17:57.38 and Schmidt finished in 36:22.24. 
 
In the field events, the Lions had 6 top 8 performances for the men. Jack Tucker had a great day finishing in the top 8 in 2 different events including a 4^th place finish in the hammer throw and a 5^th place finish in the javelin throw. Tucker had personal best performances in both events with a best throw of 47.80 M in the hammer throw and 40.88 M in the javelin throw. Sticking with the throwing events, Dylan Sebastian was the only Lion to secure a 1^st place finish at the Hanover Invitational. Sebastian had a personal best performance in the javelin throw with a throw of 47.78 M to secure that 1^st place finish. Moving to jumping events, DeAndre Cowen kicked things off with a 6^th place finish in the high jump with his furthest jump being 1.75 M. Jonny Volk also finished in 8^th place in long jump with a personal best jump of 5.79 M. And finally, Dylan Hammons placed 5^th in the triple jump with a jump of 12.05 M. 
 
UP NEXT: The Lions will be traveling to Ohio Wesleyan University on Saturday, April 6^th for their next meet. The Marv Frye Invitational will get kicked off at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, and you can keep up with results at msjlions.com.