LANCASTER, Pa. – The Ursinus Women's Track & Field team began the 2026 Centennial Conference Indoor Championships by crowning a relay champion on Saturday at Franklin & Marshall.
 
 
The 4x200 relay team of first-year Sophia Pascale, first-year Laela Middleton, sophomore Nadly Gyapong, and senior Kaelin Ryan won gold behind a school, Centennial, and meet record time of 1:42.31. The time bested the previous Centennial and meet record set by Dickinson at the 2024 Centennial Indoor Championships and they are the first 4x200 Ursinus women's relay team to win gold since 2020.
 
 
Ryan also had a big day individually by setting the school and Centennial Meet record in the 60-meter hurdles prelims on a time of 8.81. She is seeded first headed into the finals tomorrow and now owns the 16th best time in all of Division III for the event. Ryan will be joined in the hurdle finals with classmate Juniper Bauroth-Sherman who earned the final spot with a personal best time of 9.86. Pascale and Gyapong earned spots in the 60 meter dash finals on times of 7.84 (PB) and 7.96, respectively.
 
 
 
Junior Sam Wechsler earned the bronze medal in the triple jump on her mark of 10.58 and was followed by two teammates in sophomore Emily Barlam and first-year Arnie Etienne. Barlam was fourth on a 10.46 meter jump and Etienne was fifth at 10.44 meters.
 
 
 
Junior Hannah Quinn recorded a season best throw in the weight throw at 14.04 meters and finished fourth overall to lead the throwers. Bauroth-Sherman placed fifth in the pole vault on a personal best mark of 3.17 meters.
 
 
The 4x800 relay team of senior Mia Sideris, first-year Allison Severino, sophomore Aubrey Myers, and first-year Alissa Joseph placed fourth on a time of 9:59.85 and the Distance Medley Relay team of sophomore Elizabeth Dill, senior Jaycie Miller, senior Corrine Martello, and first-year Emi Loverdi finished eighth on a time of 13:44.25.
 
 
The second and final day of Indoor Championships will start at 11:00 a.m. tomorrow, March 1st.