Elon's Jessica Clendenning, Julia Hicks and Dominique Price all earned top-three finishes to earn all-conference accolades. Price and Anna Mae Flynn each set a pair of individual Elon program milestones while Hicks, teammate Angela Carlberg and the Phoenix distance medley relay unit also emerged as school record-breakers yet again this season.
In the team standings, Elon (40 points) finished behind Appalachian State (148.5), Western Carolina (122), Georgia Southern (118), Chattanooga (108) and Furman (42) while beating College of Charleston (26.5), The Citadel (25), Davidson (22) and UNC Greensboro (8).
For the third time in as many years, Clendenning earned All-Southern Conference honors in the pole vault. With a leap of 3.50 meters – 11-05.75 – she placed second out of 10 athletes, narrowly missing her own program record of 3.60 meters, set earlier this month, by one-tenth of a meter.
Price placed second out of 15 competitors in the 60-meter hurdles with a school-record time of 8.70 seconds for all-league distinction while Hicks piled up a program-best 2,999 points for a third-place finish out of 11 athletes in the pentathlon, also good enough for all-SoCon recognition.
Price also established a new school record in the 60-meter dash, clocking in at 7.91 seconds to finish fifth in her heat. Carlberg set a new program plateau in the shot put with a heave of 11.34 meters – 37-02.50 – while ending up fifth in her flight.
Flynn scurried to a new top school mark of 10:36.0 in the 3000-meter run, finishing 10th out of 21 runners. Flynn (18:20.87) and teammate Katelyn Ealer (18:23.02) scampered to the new top two 5000-meter times in Phoenix history. Flynn (8th) and Ealer (9th) both cracked the top-10 in the 22-runner field.
The Elon distance medley relay unit – Flynn, Morgan Zech, Chavanne Hubbard and Alana Black – set a new Phoenix milestone with a performance of 12:25.70, finishing fourth out of the 10 teams.
The Phoenix 4x400-meter relay team – Jessica Weaver, Alice Turner, Zech and Hubbard – landed in fourth place out of nine squads, turning in a time of 4:00.64. That mark fell just shy – a mere .13 of a second – of the Elon record of 4:00.51, set at last season's SoCon championship by Rochelle Reid, Brittany Boda, Zech and Turner.
Black placed second in her preliminary heat of the 800-meter run, crossing the line at 2:20.20 to qualify for the finals. She then ended up in fifth place in the finals – 22 runners overall – with a time of 2:21.45.
Hicks and teammate Kimberly Abel ended up tied for 10th out of 17 athletes in the high jump, each leaping to a height of 1.44 meters – 4-08.75 – to just miss Kimberly Adams' two-year-old program record of 1.58 meters by a mere .14 of a meter.
The Phoenix duo of Alissa Wilke (10:47.69) and Colleen McCarthy (10:52.09) finished first and second, respectively, in their eight-athlete section of the 3000-meter run. Wilke also turned in a time of 18:47.43 in the 5000-meter run to place second out of 10 runners in her section.
Turner finished second in her heat of the 200-meter dash, racing to a time of 26.16 seconds. That performance fell .02 seconds shy of her school-record time of 26.14 seconds, set earlier this season.
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