Marion, Ind. - The Marian women's track and field team start off the Outdoor Crossroads League Championships on Thursday at Indiana Welseyan, taking third place going into Friday's competition in the ten-team field. Marian scored 43 points on the day, with three events placed on podium and one meet record broken to highlight the meet's opening day.

Marian's first scored event of the day scored second overall in the 4x800, as the team of Adrianna Boyd, Katie Woods, Nora Steele, and Taylor Thomas finished with a time of 9:05.18 which started the day off with eight points for the Knights. 

The Knights claimed majority of their points in the field during Thursday's preliminaries with Mia Curran claiming points in the pole vault. Brooke Coffman and Nina Marinkovic tallied points in the long jump. Coffman claimed second place in the high jump and tallied up seven more points for the Knights, and Gina Butz claimed fourth place tallying up five points of her own.

Gabi Bilbrey claimed fourth place tallying up five points in the discus. Arriana Benjamin claimed first place in the shot put with a mark of 15.19m setting the new meet record in the event. Courtney Butler claimed seventh place in shot put and tallied two more points for the Knights.

Marian's first events on Friday will start at, 9:00 a.m., with Marian competing for a championship in the Heptathlon, Decathlon, Hammer and Javelin to start off the final day of the meet.

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