Full Results

Boston, Mass. – Senior Yulia Vasilyeva (Volgograd, Russia) broke a school record and led the Robert Morris University women's indoor track & field team at the ECAC Championships this weekend by earning All-East Coast honors in two different events as the squad competed at the Boston University Track & Tennis Center.
 
Freshman April Krivoniak (Greensburg, Pa. / Latrobe) and junior Tara Van Schie (Haarlem, Netherlands / Driehuis NH) also scored points for RMU in separate disciplines. As a result, the Colonials claimed All-East Coast honors in at least four distinct events for the first time in program history.
 
Vasilyeva finished among the top five in both of her events Saturday. She produced a school-record distance of 12.24 meters in the triple jump to take fifth place. She then tied for fourth place in the high jump by clearing 1.68 meters, barely missing equaling her own school record in that event.
 
Van Schie took sixth place in the pentathlon by virtue of earning 3,454 points, the second-highest mark in RMU history. She was fourth in the 60-meter hurdles with a career-best time of 9.04 seconds. She won the shot put with a toss of 11.55 meters and also set a new personal best in the 800-meter run by stopping the clock in 2:32.68, more than four seconds better than her previous top time. Van Schie also posted marks of 1.54 meters in the high jump and 5.13 meters in the long jump. This marks the second time in three years that Van Schie has posted a top-eight finish in the pentathlon at the ECAC Championships.
 
Krivoniak unleashed a season-best toss of 13.85 meters, the second-best mark in school history, to earn All-East Coast honors in her rookie season. She finished in eighth place in the event.
 
Other Colonials to compete in individual events on the weekend were sophomore Jessica Guyett (Washington Court House, Ohio / Washington), senior Rachael Kotula (East Berlin, Pa. / Bermudian Springs), junior Bethany Ledford (Huntingdon, Pa. / Huntingdon) and sophomore Olivia Loy (Lemoyne, Pa. / Cedar Cliff).
 
Kotula was 17th in the shot put (12.62 meters) while Guyett followed right behind her in 18th (12.52 meters). Ledford was 15th in the pole vault as she cleared 3.55 meters, posting one of the top 10 marks in RMU history in the event. Loy also competed in the pole vault but did not register a height.
 
RMU also contested a squad in the 4x800-meter relay. The Colonials placed 16th in 9:27.35. Junior Marissa Polk (Pittsburgh, Pa. / Oakland Catholic), junior Alexis Ebersole (Altoona, Pa. / Altoona), senior Lindsay Erath (Aliquippa, Pa. / Hopewell) and junior Brianna Iannarelli (McDonald, Pa. / Canon-McMillan) comprised the team and combined to post the second-fastest time in RMU history in the event.
 
The 11 Colonials that competed in the ECAC Championships represents a new program record for RMU.
 
The ECAC Championships conclude the indoor season for Robert Morris. However, RMU will commence the outdoor season in under two weeks as it competes in the Wake Forest Open March 21-22.