Results
NEW YORK, N.Y. -- Junior #Jake Lafaver# turned in a personal-best time in the 800-meter run for Nazareth Saturday as the Golden Flyers track and field teams competed at the ECAC Division III Indoor Championships at the New Balance Armory in New York City.

Lafaver provisionally qualified for next week's NCAA meet in Naperville, Ill. with a time of 1:53.24 to finish third in the 800 and account for all six of Nazareth's team points. Freshman #Khiary Gayle# also competed for Nazareth in the triple jump, but fouled on all three attempts and failed to place.

In the women's meet, freshman #Taylor Pierson# leaped to a first-place finish in the women's long jump and broke her own school record in the process

Pierson shattered her own school record yet again with a leap of 5.51 meters (18 feet, 1 inch) and provisionally qualified for next week's NCAA Championships. Pierson also finished first at last week's NYSCTC meet at Ithaca.

Nazareth finished 24th in the women's team standings with 13 points, with Pierson accounting for 10 of those points in the long jump.

Also in the women's meet, sophomore #Hannah Brackley# finished seventh in the 500-meter dash with a school-record time of 1:18.30. Brackley and Pierson each ran in two relays. Nazareth set a school record in the 4 x 200-meter relay (1:47.54) with a 19th-place finish on Friday. That foursome was Pierson, Brackley, #Sibongile Chisi# and #Amanda Entress#.

Nazareth also was ninth in the 4 x 400-meter relay (4:09.39) with the foursome of Pierson, Chisi, #Keaghlan Morrissey# and Brackley. The Golden Flyers also shattered the school record in the 4 x 800-meter relay with an eighth-place time of 9:39.39. Seniors #Lauren Jamieson# and #Kelsey Mash# competed for Nazareth in that event along with junior #Lauren Heitzhaus# and sophomore #Michaela Gildemeyer#. Jamieson also ran in the 1,000-meter run and finished 21st (3:08.69).