Victoria Kadiri, Ella Baran and Annie Gutierrez each won two gold medals to lead Johns Hopkins to a record-breaking total of 281 points and an 11^th straight Centennial Championship! The Blue Jays won nine events to dominate the event, finishing 100.5 points ahead of second-place Dickinson.
 
"I'm so grateful for the opportunity our women had to compete at the championships and defend their title," head coach Bobby Van Allen said. "The amount of work the conference and our administrators put in to making this happen is something I'm beyond thankful for. While Van Allen noted that it was incredible to watch meet records fall and athletes qualify for nationals, he added "the opportunity for our student-athletes to show their love and support for one another through sport makes everything worth it."
 
The trio of Kadiri, Baran and Gutierrez combined for six of the Jays nine event victories. Kadiri, a freshman from Lynn, MA, took gold in the long jump and the high jump. A 5.81m leap to win Centennial gold in the long jump also put Kadiri into a tie for first place nationally! Kadiri added a 1.59m jump to edge Gutierrez for the high jump crown. The freshman also added a silver medal in the 100, crossing the finish line in 12.60 seconds.
 
It was a record-breaking performance for Baran, who broke the Centennial Conference meet record in the 1,500 with a finishing time of 4:26.10. Baran has jumped into second nationally, just four seconds behind the top-time in DIII. The junior standout helped the Blue Jays take gold in the 4x800 as well, teaming with Paloma Hancock, Maisy Webster and Lily Sheth to finish in 9:30.86.
 
Gutierrez added two more gold medals to her impressive career total. The senior won both the 100m hurdles and the pole vault to help pace the Blue Jays. In the pole vault, it was a comfortable win, posting a mark of 3.60m, 0.40m better than her teammate Taryn Silvernale in second. The Florida native dominated the 100m hurdles as well, finishing in 14.81 seconds, 0.8 seconds faster than second-place. Gutierrez also contributed silver medals in the long jump, high jump and 400m hurdles.

Other Notable Performances:
• On Friday afternoon in Baltimore, MD, Julia Zambo became the first Blue Jay to medal in the hammer throw. The sophomore set a school record with a 42.12m throw to win the event for the Jays and start the championships off on a great note. Zambo added a bronze medal in the shot put with a 10.47m mark.
• Cherease Lamm brought home a gold medal for the Blue Jays in the triple jump, leaping 11.25m to finish ahead of teammate Veronica Montane who took silver.
• Ariel Keklak added a gold medal to her career tally with a win in the 800 on Saturday afternoon. Keklak raced start-to-finish with teammate Therese Olshanski, going 1-2 in the event with times of 2:15.24 and 2:16.79. Keklak earned a silver medal as a member of the 4x400 relay team as well.
• Alongside her silver medal in the triple jump, Montane took second in the javelin with a throw of 40.85m.
• Olshanski took home a pair of silver medals for her efforts on Saturday. She added a second-place finish in the 1,500 to add to her silver in the 800. Olshanski finished second in the 1,500 with a time of 4:29.75, good for fifth nationally to qualify her for NCAA's in the event.
• Finishing the 5,000 in 17:19.52, Alex Ross took home a silver medal, finishing behind Isabel Cardi who broke the conference meet record with a time of 16:58.42. Fellow Blue Jay Aishanee Wijeratna took the bronze medal in the event with a time of 18:02.13.
• Alexandra Damron took home a silver medal in the 400, placing second with a time of 1:00.04, .07 seconds behind the winner. Damron also took home silver in the 4x400.
• Joining Damron & Keklak in the aforementioned 4x400 relay were freshman Anna Zaeske and Monal Daterao. The quartet finished in 4:02.50, just over two seconds behind first-place.
• Chinaza Nwankpa earned a bronze medal in the 100, finishing in 12.80 seconds, just behind Kadiri.
• Claudia Sesso took third-place in the 200, finishing in 26.50


Up Next
• Hopkins will return to action shortly to try and add more NCAA qualifiers.