BETHLEHEM, Pa. – The Slippery Rock University women's indoor track and field team will look to defend its title at the 2026 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Championships Saturday and Sunday at the Rauch Fieldhouse at Lehigh University.
 
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SRU'S PSAC INDOOR HISTORY
The Rock have won eight PSAC indoor titles including the last two in 2024 and 2025. SRU has finished inside the top three in the team standings in each of the last 11 PSAC indoor meets and has been top three in 18 of the 23 total PSAC indoor meets that have been contested.
 
TEAM TITLE PREVIEW
Slippery Rock has won the last two PSAC indoor titles and is looking to pick up a third title this weekend. The Rock won the title last winter comfortably after racking up 153 points with Shippensburg placing second with 90.5 points. This year's team race will be much closer after The Rock lost more than half of those points from a year ago due to graduations and injuries with 80 individual points not returning this year. SRU enters the weekend as slight favorites, but strong challenges are expected from East Stroudsburg, California (Pa.), Bloomsburg and Shippensburg. The top spots in the team race will likely not be decided until late in the day Sunday in what is expected to be a tight battle among the top five or six teams. Based on the seed positions, only 17 points separates the top five teams entering the weekend.
 
A LOT OF POINTS TO REPLACE
Slippery Rock won seven different events last year with wins in six individual events and one relay (distance medley), but only one of those individuals returns for SRU this year. The Rock will miss 60-meter and 200-meter champion Samantha Gilbert and meet MVP Anna Igims, who won the mile and 3,000-meter runs and anchored SRU to the win in the distance medley relay. SRU is also without shot put champion Savannah Schneck, who missed this season with an injury.
 
SRU'S RETURNING CHAMPION
Slippery Rock returns only one individual champion from a year ago in the form of PSAC Freshman of the Year Jianna Long. Long won the 400-meter title last year as a true freshman and enters this weekend as the No. 2 seed in the event. SRU also returns two members of the winning distance medley relay in Jennifer Cichra and Annasophia Stauffer, who will repeat their legs this year with Cichra running the 1,200-meter leg and Stauffer taking the 400-meter leg.
 
NO. 1 SEED
Slippery Rock enters the meet with only one No. 1 seed and that comes from Olivia Heckman in the shot put. Heckman has led the PSAC all year and enters the meet with an NCAA provisional throw of 13.70 meters.
 
QUALIFIED IN EVERY EVENT
Slippery Rock has at least two athletes qualified in every individual event and has three or more athletes qualified in 10 different events. The Rock have qualified a total of 37 individual women to compete this weekend. SRU will also send 40 men to compete for a total contingency of 77 qualified athletes.
 
LOADED UP IN THE FIELD
If The Rock are to repeat as champions, it will likely take a strong showing in the field, where most of SRU's highest ranked athletes will compete. The Rock have six women qualified in both the long jump and triple jump, five women qualified in the pole vault, four in the shot put and three in the pentathlon.
 
ATHLETES TO WATCH ON THE TRACK
Jianna Long is the only SRU athlete seeded in the top three in an individual event on the track with her No. 2 mark in the 400-meter dash. The Rock will be looking to veteran distance runner and outdoor 10,000-meter champion Ruthie Hughes for a busy weekend that will see Hughes run in the mile, the 3,000-meter run and the 5,000-meter run. She is seeded in the top six in all three events and finished in the top three in all three last year. Freshman hurdler Ondrea Young enters her first collegiate championship meet as the No. 5 seed in the 60-meter hurdles. SRU also enters the weekend with the No. 2 seed in the 4x400-meter relay, which will be anchored by Long. She is likely to be joined by Shannon McCullough, Lydia Reed and Ava Reagle, the same foursome that ran 3:54 last weekend.
 
WHO TO WATCH IN THE JUMPS
Allie Taylor won the PSAC outdoor title in the pole vault last spring and enters this meet seeded No. 2. The Rock have three women seeded in the top seven in both the long and triple jump with Autumn Wyatt, Baylee Blauser and Alice Bogia leading that group. Freshman Delaney Sturgeon is the highest seed in the high jump at No. 6.
 
HECKMAN LEADS THE THROWERS
Olivia Heckman is the top seed in the shot put and will be joined Haley Domagala as the No. 8 seed and Becca Martin, who enters as the No. 9 seed but is coming off a third place showing last winter. Martin is a three-time All-PSAC honoree in the event. Sydney Hale will lead the way in the weight throw and enters as the No. 8 seed.
 
MULTI CONTINGENT
Slippery Rock could make a big swing in the pentathlon and enters with three women seeded in the top five, including No. 2 seed Leighanne Swan, No. 3 seed Autumn Wyatt and No. 5 seed Maddy Miller.
 
AWARDS AND HONORS
The top three finishers in all events will be named to the All-PSAC team and the top two teams in the team standings will take home team trophies. A number of other awards will be handed out Sunday as well, including awards for the top scholar-athletes   at the meet and Most Outstanding Athlete awards.
 
QUALIFICATION
In order to compete this weekend, athletes had to meet the PSAC automatic qualifying mark in their respective events. If any event did not have the minimum field size of 18 athletes with qualified marks, the event was filled to the 18th best entry mark in that specific event to ensure at least 18 entries in all individual events. For the multi-event competition, the top 14 scores were accepted.
 
SCORING
The top eight finishers in the final round of each of the 17 events will be awarded team points in the following order: 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1.
 
FULL SRU ENTRIES
A look at all of SRU's entries for the weekend with their seed positions and qualifying marks can be found below, along with the notes about SRU's top returning scorers from last year's meet.
 
RECAPS AND RESULTS
Recaps and results from both days of the meet will be posted to www.RockAthletics.com Saturday night and Sunday evening after results are finalized each day.
 
SLIPPERY ROCK'S PSAC ENTRIES
(Seed position, athlete name, qualifying mark)
 
60-METER DASH
11. Ava Reagle – 7.93
16. Grace Lennon – 8.07
Last Year: SRU scored 13 points with Samantha Gilbert winning and Regan Johnson finishing sixth.
 
200-METER DASH
8. Ava Reagle – 25.55
16. Lydia Reed – 25.92
18. Kamryn Ross – 26.00
Last Year: SRU scored 11 points with Samantha Gilbert winning and Regan Johnson finishing eighth.
 
400-METER DASH
2. Jianna Long – 57.29
18. Evabella Cox – 1:00.38
Last Year: SRU scored 10 points with Jianna Long winning.
 
800-METER RUN
10. Madison Smalheer – 2:20.24
13. Jennifer Cichra – 2:21.23
16. Marissa Smalheer – 2:22.68
Last Year: SRU did not score. Jennifer Cichra was 14th.
 
MILE RUN
6. Ruthie Hughes – 5:09.12
12. Jennifer Cichra – 5:14.93
15. Gwen Lloyd – 5:16.52
Last Year: SRU scored 16 points with Anna Igims winning and Ruthie Hughes finishing third. Jennifer Cichra was ninth in each of the last two PSAC indoor meets.
 
3,000-METER RUN
5. Ruthie Hughes – 10:18.74
12. Carissa Flynn – 10:28.29
Last Year: SRU scored 18 points with Anna Igims winning and Ruthie Hughes finishing second.
 
5,000-METER RUN
4. Ruthie Hughes – 17:42.13
13. Carissa Flynn – 18:24.70
15. Gwen Lloyd – 18:29.02
Last Year: SRU scored eight points with Ruthie Hughes finishing second.
 
60-METER HURDLES
5. Ondrea Young – 9.06
10. Kathryn Morrison – 9.15
Last Year: SRU scored five points with Chaley Younkin finishing fourth.
 
4x400-METER RELAY – 3:54.32
2. Ava Reagle, Shannon McCullough, Lydia Reed, Jianna Long
Last Year: Slippery Rock scored five points with a fourth place finish. Reed and Long were both on that team, along with Annasophia Stauffer and Samantha Gilbert.
 
DISTANCE MEDLEY RELAY – 12:53.37
7. Jennifer Cichra, Annasophia Stauffer, Marissa Smalheer, Gwen Lloyd
Last Year: SRU scored 10 points after winning this event for the second year in a row. Stauffer (400m) and Cichra (1,200m) will both run their same legs this year, but Marissa Smalheer will run the 800m leg in place of Tatiana Holt and Gwen Lloyd will run the mile in place of Anna Igims.
 
HIGH JUMP
6. Delaney Sturgeon – 1.65m
11. Tayla Kurzawa – 1.62m
Last Year: SRU scored six points with Cassidy Davis in fourth and Paige Griffith in seventh.
 
POLE VAULT
2. Allie Taylor – 3.73m
9. Paige Harding – 3.48m
10. Kylie Eismann – 3.47m
13. Addison Lyles – 3.40m
16. Kendall Kitchen – 3.28m
Last Year: SRU scored nine points with Allie Taylor in third and Grace Parrett in sixth. Addison Lyles was 16th in her PSAC debut.
 
LONG JUMP
3. Autumn Wyatt – 5.78m
5. Baylee Blauser – 5.74m
6. Alice Bogia – 5.60m
13. Tayla Kurzawa – 5.40m
16. Julia Coffaro – 5.26m
17. Kate Walasavage – 5.23m
Last Year: Slippery Rock scored five points with Aleks Brozeski in sixth and Baylee Blauser in seventh.
 
TRIPLE JUMP
3. Baylee Blauser – 11.56m
6. Alice Bogia – 11.50m
7. Autumn Wyatt – 11.37m
9. Julia Coffaro – 11.17m
12. Tayla Kurzawa – 11.04m
16. Katie Book – 10.94m
Last Year: Slippery Rock scored five points with Aleks Brozeski in sixth and Baylee Blauser in seventh. Alice Bogia was 10th.
 
SHOT PUT
1. Olivia Heckman – 13.70m
8. Haley Domagala – 12.49m
9. Becca Martin – 12.40m
16. Autumn Stewart – 11.48m
Last Year: Slippery Rock scored 24 points with Savannah Schneck winning, Becca Martin finishing third, Olivia Heckman finishing fourth and Autumn Stewart placing sixth.
 
WEIGHT THROW
8. Sydney Hale – 14.89m
13. Haley Domagala – 14.18m
Last Year: Slippery Rock scored six points with Savannah Schneck finishing third.
 
PENTATHLON
2. Leighanne Swan – 3,343 points
3. Autumn Wyatt – 3,134 points
5. Maddy Miller – 3,081 points
Last Year: Slippery Rock scored two points with Maddy Miller finishing seventh. Autumn Wyatt was 10th and Leighanne Swan was 14th.
 




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