Goucher Entry Grabs First Place in 4 x 100-Meter Relay

Couraud Sets New School Record, Places Eighth in 1500 Meters

GETTYSBURG, Pa. — Goucher's entry in the 4 x 100-meter relay took first place at the Mason-Dixon Invitational today to earn the fourth annual Michel Whitmore "Coach Whit" Award.

The foursome of Kate Clarke (Hendersonville, Tenn./Pope John Paul II), Sarah Meade (Santa Fe, N.M./Monte Del Sol Charter School), Marissa Copan (Golden, Colo./Golden) and Dana Macaluso (Huntington, N.Y./Huntington) completed the event in a combined time of :52.68. Catholic was the runnerup with a time of :55.24.

The Whitmore Award has been presented annually since 2007 to the victorious men's and women's 4 x 100 relays at the Mason-Dixon Invitational. It honors a former assistant track and field coach at McDaniel and Gettysburg colleges who died in 2006 at the age of 43.

In the 4 x 400-meter relay, Goucher finished in fourth place (4:27.40).

Goucher's Abby Cooney (Holden, Mass./Wachusett Regional) was the top collegiate thrower and placed second overall in the hammer throw competition with a throw of 127-feet, 5-inches.

Cooney also placed third in the shot put (33-feet, 4.75-inches).

Other third-place performances by Goucher athletes: Copan in the 100-meter dash (:13.54) and Meade in the 200-meter dash (:27.79). Macaluso (:28.45) and Copan (:28.74) followed Meade across the finish line in the 200 in fourth and sixth place, respectively.

Jaclyn Kellon (Cleveland Heights, Ohio/St. Peter Chanel) took fourth place in the 100-meter hurdles (:17.45) and Macaluso placed fifth in the long jump (14-feet, 5-inches).

Hadley Couraud (East Lansing, Mich./East Lansing) placed seventh in the 800-meter run (2:34.29) and eighth in the 1500-meter run, setting a new school record with her time of 5:02.05.

The Gophers earned a total of 69 points to finish in seventh place.