Complete Conference Release

LANCASTER, PA – The Johns Hopkins women's indoor track and field team racked up three Centennial Conference Indoor Track & Field awards and had many other athletes earn all-conference honors after JHU won its ninth consecutive Centennial Conference Championship on February 24. Maya Hammonds was named the field athlete of the year while Caelyn Reilly earned track athlete of the year honors. Bobby Van Allen was named the coach of the year for the fifth time in his career while Grace Tate was named to the All-Sportsmanship team. This is the first time JHU has won both the track performer and field performer of the year awards for the indoor season.
 
This season, Hammonds set a new Hopkins record in the 200-meter dash (26.06) and a new conference record in the long jump (5.80m). At the conference finals, she won the 200-meter dash (26.07), long jump (5.32m) and the pentathlon (3,403 points). In the pentathlon, Hammonds won all but one event, finishing third in the shot put. The New Hartford, NY native also earned a second-place finish in the high jump (1.52m) and a third-place finish in the 60-meter hurdles (9.44).
 
Reilly became the seventh athlete in conference history to win both the 3 and 5k races at the indoor championships. She won the 5,000-meter run with a time of 17:14.73 and took home the top spot in the 3,000-meter run with a time of 9:58.47.
 
Johns Hopkins had nine athletes, including Reilly and Hammonds, named First Team All-Centennial. Alexandra Damron earned her first All-Centennial First Team honor in the 400-meter dash finishing with a time of 59.74 while Erin Brush earned her fourth straight first team honors, and her second consecutive in the 800m-dash as she finished in 2:17.84. Therese Olshanski won the mile at the championships, finishing with a time of 5:02.22, to earn her first indoor track all-conference award while Annie Gutierrez also earned first team laurels for the first time in her career, winning the pole vault with a mark of 3.52m. The Blue Jay 4 x 400 relay team of Damron, Hannah Miller, Ashley Tyburski, and Hailey Sheppell also earned first team honors as they won the race with a time of 4:03.74.
 
Ellie Clawson earned second team honors in the 5,000-meter run as she finished with a time of 17:21.21, and she was joined by Hammonds and Sophia Cortazzo who finished second in the pole vault as she cleared 3.37m. Johns Hopkins had eight athletes, including Hammonds, earn honorable mention at the championships. Chinaza Nwankpa (26.79) finished third in the 200-meter while Arielle Summitt finished third in the 800-meter with a mark of 2:20.43, and Ariel Keklak notched a third-place finish in the mile with a time of 5:08.27. Emily Stahl (10.10.34) and Samantha Levy (17:26.58) earned third-place finishes in the 3,000-meter and 5,000-meter races, respectively, while Cherease Lamm and Kelsey Neff, both competing in their first conference championships, rounded out the honorable mention honorees for the Blue Jays. Lamm notched a third-place finish in the long jump with a leap of 10.67m while Neff finished third in the shot put with a throw of 11.85m.