A Quick Look
The SUNY Oneonta women's track & field team began the outdoor portion of its year yesterday at the SUNY Geneseo Early Season Invitational, which was a non-scoring meet.
 
The Inside Story
The Red Dragons did record an individual event victory in the meet, which came from junior Amanda Iasparo (West Islip/West Islip) who won the 100-meter hurdles.  Iasparo won the event with a time of 15.81 seconds after recording the fastest time during preliminaries of 15.07 seconds.
 
Sophomore Alexis Ryder (Rotterdam/Schalmont) opened her outdoor season with three personal best performances in the throws.  Ryder was fifth in the javelin (28.40 meters), fifth in the hammer throw (42.17 meters) and 14^th in the shot put (10.53 meters).
 
Senior Juliana Piemonte (Rome/Rome Free Academy) finished 13^th in both the shot put (10.60 meters) and discus (32.66 meters) recording a personal best mark in the latter.
 
Senior Claire McMahon (Baldwinsville/CW Baker) led the distance runners with a personal best mark in the 5K crossing the line in 19:12.46.
 
In the sprints, sophomore Mya Lipscomb (Peekskill/Walter Panas) picked up where she left off during the indoor season posting a seventh place finish in the 100-meter dash (12.59 seconds) and a 14^th place finish in the 200-meter dash (26.84 seconds).
 
Freshman Ivana Lopez (Thiells/North Rockland) was 11^th in the 100 (12.98 seconds) and 16^th in the 200 (27.06 seconds).  Senior Lauren Bower (Westbury/W.T Clarke) finished 15^th in the 200 crossing in 26.99 seconds.
 
What's Next
The women will compete next weekend at both the Sam Howell Invitational at Princeton and the Hamilton College Invitational.