Track and field shows well in competitive field at Amherst Spring Fling

Emma Doyle placed in the top four in both the shot put and discus throw at the Amherst Spring Fling on April 8, 2023. (Bob Blanchard/RJB Sports)

AMHERST, Mass. -- Competing with a very high-quality field including the likes of Amherst, MIT, Middlebury, Williams, Wesleyan, and Brandeis, the Mount Holyoke College track and field team rose to the challenge with a day of personal-best efforts Saturday at the Amherst Spring Fling, a non-scoring meet at Amherst College.

Senior captain Emma Doyle (West Lebanon, N.H.) joined her third team top-10 performance list in outdoor track and field with a personal-best mark of 35.66 meters in the hammer throw. Doyle was also fourth-best in a field of 27 in the shot put, with a top mark of 11.04 meters, and third-best out of 30 athletes in the discus throw, at 32.21 meters.

Meanwhile sophomore Tessa Lancaster (Mansfield, Mass.) finished fourth out of nine runners in the 5,000 meters with a personal-record time of 18:25.99. The time lifted her from seventh place into fifth place on Mount Holyoke's all-time performance list, passing Leah Serinsky from 2003 (18:39.12) and Alie Kenzer from 2004 (18:31.59).

Other Mount Holyoke highlights included:

Sophomore Greta Trapp (La Crosse, Wis.) finished 21st among 34 runners in the 1,500 meters, with a personal-best time of 5:12.42. Sophomore Olivia Johnson (Mount Desert, Maine) and junior captain Bridget Hall (Arlington, Mass.) also ran PR's in the 1,500, at 5:15.23 and 5:16.22, respectively.
Senior captain Lucy Sternberg (Stonington, Conn.) triple-jumped a season-best 9.32 meters.
Sophomore Abby Elliott (Carmel, Ind.) placed 17th in the discus (25.93 meters) and first-year Emily Tetzlaff (Bath, Maine) placed 19th with a big personal-best mark of 25.11 meters.

Lancaster will run at the Connecticut College Silfen Invitational on Friday evening, and the Lyons will compete at the Jerry Gravel Invitational at Westfield State on Saturday, starting at 10am.