UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Lauryn Clarke broke her own school record in the 60 meters on Saturday when the Loyola University Maryland women's track and field team ran for the first time in 2025 at the Nittany Lion Challenge.
 
Clarke put down a prelims time of 7.60 seconds to tie her previous school best that she had run twice before. She then came back in the final to take eight-hundredths of a second for a new Loyola standard of 7.52 seconds.
 
She has nine of the 10 fastest times in the event in Loyola history.
 
Clarke then came back and ran a personal-best in the 200 meters, going 24.80 seconds which ranks as the seventh-fastest time in the event in school history.
 
She was a part of the 4x400-meter relay team with Claire Dalsass, Maddie Van Haren and Kat Zysk that ran 4:00.08 for 11^th place.
 
Claire Dalsass ran the No. 10 time in school history in the 600 meters, clocking 1:40.40 to finish 10^th overall.
 
Nelly Cruz took 19^th in the 60 hurdles for Loyola, running 9:32 seconds. She then came back as one of four Loyola runners in the 400 meters. Nicolette Militi led the Greyhounds in that event, running 61.26 seconds to finish 14^th. Lauren Gerow took 16^th in 63.98, Cruz was 17^th in 64.67 and Elizabeth Gallagher clocked 66.77 for 18^th.
 
Zysk and Meghan Leonard finished one spot a part in the 800 meters with the former taking 13^th in 2:20.88 and the latter running 2:26.14 for 14^th.
 
Maeve Lowther ran 5:20.18 for 28^th place in the mile, and Kasey Boag took 38^th in 5:35.91.
 
Norah Affanato finished 20^th in 3:16.90 in the 1,000 meters. Talia Banagato was close behind in 3:20.85 for 22^nd, and Kylie Maddalena finished 24^th in 3:29.42.
 
Julia Baguiao ran 43.94 for 25thin the 300 meters to lead three Greyhounds in the event. Chelsea Ayitey-Adjin finished 27^th in 45.81, and Maggie Yost finished 29^th in 47.32.
 
Behind Clarke's second-place finish in the 200, Van Haren was 20^th in 26.30, and Jane Mazzeo ran 27.61 for 29^th.
 
Mia Maselli took 36^th in the 60 meters in 8.24, and Madelyn Ricard finished 37^th in the event in 8.32.
 
Kiera Udell finished 29^th in the 3,000 meters with a time of 10:25.91, and Mackenzie Newman ran 11:06.45 for 40^th.
 
In addition to the Dalsass-Van Haren-Clarke-Zysk relay, Loyola had two other entries. Mazzeo, Lowther, Ajia Morrison and Gerow raced 4:23.76 for 18^th, and Ayitey-Adjin, Gallagher, Thea Branscom and Yost took 19^th in 4:27.42.