EMMITSBURG, MD – The MAAC is chock full of talented female runners, and a handful of them bring home multiple individual titles each season. Only one runner has a chance to win a MAAC individual title in each of the three running championships, and this year, Siena's
Olivia Lomascolo stood out among the rest.
Competing at her final MAAC Championship in Green and Gold, the Ballston Lake, New York native concluded a prolific and potential hall of fame conference career with one final win, taking home the individual gold in the women's 5,000 by just under nine seconds (17:06.93) to wrap Siena's weekend at the 2023 MAAC Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Emmitsburg, Maryland.
Lomascolo added the 2023 women's outdoor 5k to her medal hanger for this season to go along with the 2022 MAAC women's cross country and 2023 MAAC indoor women's 3k titles, and took home her fourth individual conference title and fifth total, adding in her contribution to the Saints' 2022 MAAC indoor women's distance medley relay win.
Siena concluded two-day MAAC Championship action by competing in the 800, 1,500, 5,000, 4x100, 4x400, and 4x800 relay teams, with the women finishing in seventh place and the men taking eighth.
The women's team paired the program's second title of the weekend with a second-place individual finish in the 1,500 via senior
Delia McDade Clay, who ran a time of 4:34.83 to finish just over three seconds off the lead.
Fresh off a pair of MAAC indoor distance medley relay titles, both teams saw their 4x800 relay squads place second, with the men's team of freshman
Tyler Greene, junior
Griffin Cooke, sophomore
Luke Tkaczyk, and sophomore
Chris Bertola clocking a time of 7:42.69 to finish behind Rider and the women's squad of freshman
Chloe Poulos, freshman
Mattingly O'Rourke, sophomore
Claire Gardner, and McDade Clay running a mark of 9:18.09 to finish behind only Quinnipiac.
Freshman
Jayson Chichelli (3:55.68) steadied the men's team with a seventh-place finish in the 1,500, while Poulos placed sixth (4:45.75) on the women's side. Gardner led the way in the women's 800 finals with a time of 2:14.91 for a fifth-place result. The men's 5,000 featured defending champion
Aidan Gillooley (15:09.33), while classmate
Sophia Vinciguerra (17:54.63) also took seventh in the women's race.
Siena placed sixth and ninth, respectively, in the men's and women's 4x100 relays, while the men placed eighth in the 4x400 and the women did not finish.
The Saints will look to run even stronger at the 2023 ECAC/IC4A Outdoor Track Championships, set for May 13-14 at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.
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