Full Results

Landover, Md. – Senior Yulia Vasilyeva (Volgograd, Russia) won one event and tied a school record in another to lead the Robert Morris University women's indoor track & field team on the second and final day of competition at the Northeast Conference Championships at Prince George's S&L Complex.
 
RMU finished in third place in the event with a point total of 95, seven points out of second. The finish marks the best performance by a Colonial squad in the NEC Indoor Championships since 2001.
 
Vasilyeva won the NEC title in the triple jump for the second straight year. Her winning mark of 11.84 meters was the third-best performance in school history. Also, she beat out the second-place finisher in the triple jump by .48 meters, which was greater than the distance from second place to eighth place.
 
Vasilyeva also took second place in the high jump and tied her own school record with a height of 1.70 meters. The mark, which she last achieved at the NEC Championships two years ago, also qualified her for the ECAC Championships in that event.
 
RMU's distance medley relay team claimed third place in a time of 12:27.26, the second-fastest mark in school history and the best in over a decade.
 
Junior Tara Van Schie (Haarlem, Netherlands / Driehuis NH) won points in multiple events for Robert Morris. She was seventh in the 60-meter hurdles with a new personal-best time of 9.21 seconds and also claimed seventh in the high jump with a mark of 1.57 meters.
 
A trio of Colonials grabbed fifth-place finishes in three different events Sunday.
 
Senior Rachael Kotula (East Berlin, Pa. / Bermudian Springs) earned fifth-place points in the weight throw with a new personal best mark of 14.99 meters. Senior Devon Peace (Weston Mills, N.Y. / Portville Central) set a new personal best in the triple jump of 11.12 meters to finish fifth. Finally, junior Alexis Ebersole (Altoona, Pa. / Altoona) crossed the finish line in the 800 meters in fifth place and set a new personal low of 2:21.07.
 
Sophomore Tatianna Struble (Round Rock, Texas / Round Rock) finished right ahead of Van Schie in the 60-meter hurdles and set a new personal best of 9.08 seconds in the final.
 
Junior Marissa Polk (Pittsburgh, Pa. / Oakland Catholic) came in seventh in the mile run in 5:09.93. Polk shaved more than 10 seconds off of her time in the preliminaries while posting the second-fastest time in school history, missing her own program record by less than a quarter second.
 
Freshman Samantha Logan (Cabot, Pa. / Knoch) came in eighth in the 400 meters in a time of 1:00.32.
 
Sacred Heart won the team championship with 136 points.
 
With Vasilyeva's effort Sunday, the Colonials have now qualified 11 distinct individuals for the ECAC Championships this season, which is a program record.
 
RMU will take next weekend off before resuming competition at the Zips Invitational in Akron, Ohio Saturday, Feb. 21.