BATON ROUGE (tulanegreenwave.com) -- New year, same results for the women of Tulane track & field: more personal records and another event win.
Junior
Rebekah Markel rang in 2018 with a new indoor personal record in the pole vault, placing second with a mark of 4.05m (13-03.50) Friday at the LSU Purple Tiger Invitational. Markel's performance tops her previous personal best of 4.00m (13-01.50), which she set earlier this season at the BSC Panther Icebreaker in Birmingham, Ala.
Redshirt junior
Emma Newton won the one mile race, notching a time of 5:11.90 to take the top spot. Junior
Mckenzie Melius and sophomore
Sarah Cella followed behind her, finishing fourth (5:16.94) and sixth (5:19.93), respectively.
Junior
Jessica Duckett and freshman
Kyah Loyd shined in the 60m hurdles event, qualifying for the finals after dazzling performances in the preliminaries. Duckett recorded a time of 8.46 in the prelims - just 0.02 seconds shy of her personal best - to qualify for the finals, while Loyd qualified with a time of 8.62.
In the finals, Loyd finished sixth with a personal best time of 8.51, while Duckett finished seventh (8.56).
Sophomore
Brandi Hughes and freshman
Pauline Helm notched 10th (8.74) and 20th (9.28) place finishes in the 60m hurdles prelim.
Junior
Rose Brutkiewicz and freshman
Kristina Leggas each tallied marks of 3.45m (11-03.75) in the pole vault, tying for third place. Freshman
Danielle Wember placed second in the long jump, recording a personal best 5.46m (17-11.00). Freshman
Bridgid Selfors earned a second-place finish in the 3000m run with a time of 10:36.59.
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