WORCESTER, Mass. – Lauryn Clarke qualified for a pair of finals on Friday, leading the Loyola University Maryland track and field team on the first day of the 2025 Patriot League Track & Field Championships.
 
Clarke had the second-fastest time in the 100 meters, running a wind-aided 11.75 seconds (+2.1) that was behind only Holy Cross' Abigail Desmarais who clocked 11.71 (+2.2) with a faster tailwind.
 
Clarke will go into Saturday's final in the 200 meters with the fifth-best time in the 200 meters after running 24.67 seconds in the preliminaries.
 
Loyola's 4x800-meter relay team – Maeve Lowther, Meghan Leonard, Kiera Udell and Claire Dalsass scored points for the Greyhounds on the first day, finishing seventh in the race with a time of 9:10.09, holding off Bucknell at the end by 28-hundredths of a second.
 
Leonard and Lauren Gerow were 12^th and 13^th, respectively, in the 400-meter hurdles preliminaries. Leonard ran 65.28, and Gerow was 0.17 behind in 65.45.
 
Jane Mazzeo finished 14^th in the 100 prelims with a time of 12.40, and Madelyn Ricard was 19^th in 12.88. Maddie Van Haren ran 25.23 for 16^th in the 200 preliminaries, while Elizabeth Gallagher was 29^th (26.85) and Mia Maselli finished 31^st (27.06). Nelly Cruz finished 17^th in the 100-meter hurdles in 15.41.
 
Nicolette Militi finished 17^th in the 400-meter preliminaries in 60.78, and Julia Baguiao was 18^th in 60.84. Kayla Hayes and Norah Affanato took 25^th and 26^th in the 1,500 meters, respectively, with times of 4:54.96 and 4:56.04.
 
Kylie Maddalena finished 13^th in the final of the 10,000 meters in 39:46.56.
 
The Championships will conclude Saturday with start times for events moving up one hour due to predicted weather. Track competition will start at 11 a.m.