Despite the fact that her team finished 12th in a field of 12 at the Sykes-Sabock Challenge Cup held at Penn State, Penn senior Emily Logan and three of her teammates provisionally qualified for the NCAA Indoor Track and Field championships to be held in March.
Logan -- who could not be reached for comment -- qualified individually for the 3000-meter run, as she finished fourth overall with a time of 9:32.26, which was the second-fastest time in Penn history.
The East Walpole, Mass., native also qualified as part of the distance medley relay team, along with freshman Christina Morrison, junior Izu Emeagwali and senior Kim Milans.
The medley team finished third overall behind squads from West Virginia and Cornell, but set a new school record with a time of 11:30.32 -- topping the old mark by six seconds.
Emeagwali set another school record in the 60-meter dash after finishing with a time of 7.87 in the preliminary races. The Rockaway, N.Y., native also ran the third-fastest time in school history in the 200-meter dash, as she finished in 16th place with a time of 25.34.
Freshman Jeanette Curtis added her name to the Penn record books as well with a time of 9.07 in the 60-meter hurdles -- the fourth fastest in school history.
The 4x400 relay team comprised of junior Rachel Dailey, senior Susan Eisenberg, senior Kai Ivory and freshman Krysta Copeland placed 10th overall.
The foursome recorded a time of 3:51.33, which places them second overall in program history.
In the pole vault, junior Samantha Crook placed fifth, with a vault of 12' 3.5".
Overall, the Quakers placed dead last with 16 points, 142.33 points behind Challenge Cup winner Penn State.
Cornell, the only other Ivy League team that competed in the Challenge Cup, placed seventh with 37 total points.
If their scores hold up, Logan, Morrison, Emeagwali and Milans will travel to the NCAA championships, which will be held in Fayetteville, Ark., on the campus of the University of Arkansas from March 12-13. EDITOR'S NOTE: The writer attempted to contact Emily Logan on the night the article was written and left her a voicemail; however, Logan did not receive the voicemail until the following day, after she left a post on this Web site.
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