ANNAPOLIS, Md. – Lauryn Clarke won a pair of races on Saturday as the Loyola University Maryland track and field team opened its 2025 outdoor schedule at the Navy Invitational.
 
Clarke took first in the 100 meters, running the third-fastest time in school history, 11.82 second, before coming back in the 200 meters with a victory.
 
Her finish of 24.20 seconds was a wind-aided time and did not count for record purposes, but gave her the victory in a second event.
 
Clarke was also part of the Greyhounds' 4x100-meter relay team that was third in 47.21 seconds. Madelyn Ricard, Jane Mazzeo, Clarke and Maddie Van Haren ran the second-best time in school history in the process.
 
Nelly Cruz took third in the 100-meter hurdles, running the 10^th-best time in school history, 15.21 seconds.
 
She led off the women's 4x400-meter relay team and joined Mazzeo, Lauren Gerow and Julia Baguaio for a second-place finish in 4:02.07.
 
Van Haren took fourth in the 400 meters, finishing in 59.89 seconds, Mazzeo was fourth in the 100 meters in 12.34 and Kiera Udell also had a top-five finish for the Greyhounds, taking fifth in the 800 meters in 2:15.47.
 
Kat Zysk was eighth in the 800 behind Udell, running 2:17.33. Meghan Leonard was 14^th (2:22.08), Maeve Lowther took 18^th (2:25.93), Talia Banafato was 20^th (2:29.26) and Maddie Hyde finished 21^st (2:31.55).
 
Claire Dalsass finished sixth in the 400 meters (60.97), and Nicolette Militi was seventh (61.16). Baguaio finished eighth in 61.19 seconds, and Ajia Morrison rounded out the five Loyola runners in the event in 13^th-place (64.64).
 
Lowther ran 4:44.45 to finish 11^th in the 1,500 meters to lead four Greyhounds in the event. Kasey Boag was 16^th (4:59.78), Norah Affanato was 17^th (5:01.02) and Kayla Hayes was 21^st (5:11.93).
 
Lauren Gerow finished ninth in the 400-meter hurdles, running 68.84, while Maggie Yost was 14^th in 72.43. Yost also finished 17^th in the 100-meter hurdles in 17.85.
 
Ricard was 11^th in the 100 meters in 12.98, and Mia Maselli took 12^th in 13.02. Van Haren ran 25.85 seconds for 14^th in the 200 meters, Mazzeo was 16^th in 26.16 and Ricard took 21^st in 27.33.
 
Mackenzie Newman was 11^th in the 5,000 meters in 19:19.89, and Kylie Maddalena took 13^th in 19:38.30.
 
Baguaio, Maselli, Elizabeth Gallagher and Cruz teamed to run 50.35 and finish sixth in the 4x100-meter relay. Leonard, Zysk, Udell and Dalsass ran 4:10.56 and took fourth in the 4x400-meter relay, and Banafato, Maselli, Militi and Lowther took seventh in 4:20.59.
 
Members of the Loyola men's cross country team competed at the event, as well. Mikey Byrnes had the team's best finish, taking fourth in the 1,500 meters in 4:05.96. Christian Zawislack was 13^th in the event (4:15.08), Ryan Melendez took 16^th (4:23.11) and Ailin Oberlies was 17^th (4:24.53).