SLIPPERY ROCK, P.A. – The D'Youville University women's track and field team placed sixteenth out of twenty-two teams at the Dave Labor Invitational on Saturday.
 
Graduate student Lydia Smith (Williamsport, Pa.) took home a second-place finish in the 3000m steeple chase and shattered her previous personal record with a time of 11:26.38. Freshman Emma Brady (Holley, N.Y.) placed sixteenth in the event with a time of 13:42.82.
 
Senior Sevilla Groebe (Gilbert, Ariz.) set a personal record in the 400m with a time of 1:04.81 and finished 21st out of forty-one runners. Freshman Taylor Bond (Rushman, N.Y.) finished 36th with a time of 1:08.70.
 
Groebe turned in a strong performance in the 400m hurdles as well, placing eleventh with a time of 1:07.69. Freshman Tayden Persons (Sherman, N.Y.) came in sixteenth and set a personal record with a time of 1:10.92.
 
Sophomore Madison MacNeill (West Seneca, N.Y.) came in twelfth in the high jump with a score of 1.50m. Smith placed fourteenth with an identical score of 1.50m and senior Kelly Lucas (Fredonia, N.Y.) finished 24^th with a score of 1.40m.
 
In the javelin throw, Lucas set a personal record and placed 25^th out of forty-eight participants with a score of 29.53m. Sophomore Barbara Kunz came in 36^th with a score of 23.90m.
 
In the 800m, Kunz set a personal record with a time of 2:37.25, finishing 42^nd out of sixty-four runners.
 
D'Youville will be back in action next Saturday when they compete in the Brockport Invitational.