UAA Championships - Meet Results

Sophomore Carla Stachurski won the javelin title and the New York University women's track & field team finished in sixth place at the University Athletic Association (UAA) Outdoor Championships at Washington University in St. Louis.

The javelin event started on Saturday, but was completed on Sunday due to inclement weather. Stachurski shook off the delay and posted a winning distance of 35.37 meters (116'0") in becoming the Violets' lone winner at the meet.

"Carla was ranked second coming in even though she has very limited experience in the event," said NYU head coach Nick McDonough. "But she's done great things and has gotten better every week."

Stachurski's win was worth 10 points for NYU, which finished with a total of 59 points.

Emory University edged the University of Chicago (201.5-199.5) to win the UAA Championship.

"Just a tremendous effort by our team in trying weather conditions that included rain, wind and 55-degree temperatures," McDonough said. "Despite the conditions, we doubled our points from last year."

Also on Sunday, senior captain Caitlin Gibson recorded two fourth-place finishes. She posted a career-best 26.13 in the 200 meters and clocked in at 12.72 in the 100 meters. In Saturday's preliminaries, Gibson had posted respective times of 26.58 and 12.54. 

"An awesome weekend for our senior captain," McDonough stated. "She blocked out injuries and led by example."

Indoor All-American Maeve Evans captured eight points for the Violets with her second-place finish (4:37.25) in the 1,500 meters. 

"Maeve ran a great tactical race in an event that was the most competitive on the track this weekend," McDonough explained. "There were lots of NCAA qualifiers out there."

Senior Kathryn Shannon finished seventh in the 400 meters with a time of 1:01.28 after posting a similar finish (season-best 59.68) in the preliminaries.

"There's little doubt that this program is headed in the right direction," McDonough concluded.