Indoor Track & Field Returns to Action at Cardinal Classic

Saturday, January 20

Landover, MD

10 a.m.

George Washington University

Robert Comstock Cardinal Classic

1/19/2024 12:48:00 PM | Women's Track/Cross Country

WASHINGTON – The George Washington indoor track & field team returns to action following a six-week break to compete in the Robert Comstock Cardinal Classic hosted by Catholic University. The event has a scheduled start time of 10 a.m., and will be held at the PG Sports & Learning Complex in Landover, Md.

GW opened the 2023-24 indoor season with a standout performance at the Youree Spence-Garcia Meet hosted by St. John's on Dec. 2. The Revolutionaries were paced by junior Olivia Syftestad, who tallied gold in the 3000m run with a PR time of 10:04.95, while also setting four program records in the process. Along with Syftestad, GW finished with four of the top five finishers in the 3000m. Sophomore Una Boylan tallied second with a PR time of 10:05.09, while first-year Julia Shanes finished third with a mark of 10:11.31 in her event debut. Rounding out the top five was first-year Lola Dinneen with a 10:22.59 in her event debut. Senior Catherine Ruffino also finished with a PR in the event, notching a 10:29.99 for seventh.

Senior Kirsten Long kicked-off her fourth collegiate season with a fourth-place finish in the 1000m. Long notched a time of 3:05.62, just over one second off her PR time of 3:04.16. Sophomore Rita Mazumder also put together a solid showing in the event, recording a 3:10.07 in her event debut. Grad transfer Rachel Horowitz finished fifth in the 300m dash, recording a 39.94 and setting a new program record in her first event with the Buff & Blue. Horowitz also tallied sixth in the 60m with a time of 7.86, tying her PR and setting a new program record. First-year Kamryn Holness also set a program record, tallying a 26.23 in the 200m for the title. Holness finished eighth in the event and broke the previous record by just under one second. Also recording a program record on the day was sophomore Alexia Massoud. Massoud recorded a 1:22.07 in her event debut to beat the previous record by over four seconds.

Saturday's event kicks off a slate of five meets between now and the end of February, culminating with the 2024 Atlantic 10 Championships hosted in Virginia Beach from Feb. 23-24. Live results of Saturday's event will be available online at GWsports.com.