TRAFFORD, Pa. (March 19) – Three members of the Saint Vincent College track and field program have been recognized with weekly honors by the Presidents' Athletic Conference.
Sophomore
Miranda Cincotta (Emmitsburg, Md./St. John's Catholic Prep) was named the PAC Women's Track Runner of the Week, freshman
Caroline Kozera (Abingdon, Md./The John Carroll School) the PAC Women's Track Newcomer of the Week and freshman
P.J. McNeal (Plum Borough, Pa./Plum) the Men's Track Newcomer of the Week.
At Saturday's Washington and Lee Carnival, Cincotta placed first in a 43-runner field in the 1,500-meter run in 4:48.49, breaking a six-year-old program record and winning by a seven second margin. She would then go on to add a fourth-place finish in a 35-runner field in the 800-meter run in a personal-record time of 2:20.68, and ran the anchor for the Bearcats' 4x400 relay, which ran a school-record time of 4:12.22
Kozera set a program record in the 110-meter hurdles in 16.91 seconds while her time of 27.41 seconds in the 200-meter dash marked the second-fastest in program history. She was also a part of two school-record-breaking relay performances, running on the 4x100 squad that posted a time of 53.51 seconds and the 4x400 that finished in 4:12.22.
McNeal placed second in a 31-runner field in the 400-meter dash in a time of 50.31 seconds, the second-fastest performance in program history, and top time so far this spring in the PAC. McNeal followed that up by placing eighth in a 61-runner field in the 200 in 22.91 seconds, also the second-best mark in team history, while he took 14th in a 41-runner field in the 100 in 11.45 seconds.
The Bearcats will be back in action on Saturday, traveling to Morgantown, West Virginia, to take part in the West Virginia University Stan Romanowski Open.