PHILADELPHIA – Olivia Morganti made history to highlight Penn's first day at the Penn Relays on Thursday. The senior won the steeplechase on Thursday night in 9:57.94, breaking her own program record by a little less than two seconds.
 
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In addition to resetting her own standard, Morganti's win also was the first in an individual track event by a Penn woman at the Penn Relays. Prior to today, the Quakers' previous individual women's titles had come in the heptathlon—Frances Childs in 1988, Shani Boston in 2004, Noel Jancewicz in 2014—and in the high jump (Anna Peyton Malizia in 2019).
 
Morganti's time puts her tenth nationally in the event and fifth in the East.
 
On the men's side, freshman Ryan Matulonis ran the second-best time in the men's 400-meter hurdles, clocking 51.25 seconds. In that same event on the women's side, freshman Ameila Kristen broke the minute mark with a PR of 59.77 seconds, pushing her up another spot to sixth on the program's top 10 list in the event.
 
Edwin Klanke clocked a PR 3:43.52 in the men's 1,500 on Thursday night, good for sixth on the program's top 10 list.
 
Penn's Results on Thursday at the Relays…
 
Women's 400 Hurdles
  13. Amelia Kristen, 59.77 – 6th on Penn's top 10 list
 
Men's 400 Hurdles:
  2. Ryan Matulonis, 51.25
  16. Sean Golembiewski, 52.97
  29. Alexander Sadikov, 54.13
  31. Nicolas West, 55.50
 
Women's 1,500:
  Lara Cota, DNF
  Lindsay Yakaboski, DNF
 
Men's 1,500
  3. Edwin Klanke, 3:43.52
  20. Liam Going, 3:48.80
  Kofi Fordjour, DNF
  Nicholas DeVita, DNF
 
Women's Steeplechase
  1. Olivia Morganti, 9:57.94 – PROGRAM RECORD
  27. Katie Pou, 11:14.74
 
Men's Steeplechase
  15. Silas Ruth, 8:59.53
 
Women's 5K
  43. Kyra Compton, 16:53.65
  52. Anastasia Russell, 17:09.50
  Maeve Stiles, DNF
  Lily Murphy, DNF
  Sarah Fischer, DNF
 
Men's 5K
  15. Troy Hill, 14:10.00
  33. Dennis Fortuna, 14:17.91
  39. Sahil Dodda, 14:21.42
  61. George Keen, 14:41.38
  67. Rory Lieberman, 14:52.35
  Sebastian Pizarro, DNF
  Vidhur Polam, DNF
  Brian Gent, DNF
 
Men's 10K
  Kofi Fordjour, DNF
 
Women's Hammer Throw:
  15. Ella Neskora, 48.19m (158-1)
 
Men's Hammer Throw:
  14. Scott Dochat, 57.22m (187-9)