DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – The Embry-Riddle women's track & field team ran away with the 2022 Peach Belt Conference title at the league's annual track and field championship at the ERAU Track & Field Complex on Saturday. The Eagles totaled 338 points to claim their fourth consecutive PBC crown.
 
North Georgia was second with 80 points and Columbus State was third with 67 points.
 
The first medals of the day came in the heptathlon where the Eagles swept the podium. The heptathlon javelin yielded ERAU personal records by Kailey Eaton (28.91), Jamie Talley (24.11) and Emma Sorenson (23.87), while Noel Konitzer (4.50m) and Eaton (4.36) had PRs in the long jump. In the final heptathlon event of the day, Laura McBride (2:17.12) and Konitzer (2:38.80) both ran the fastest 800m races of the respective careers. McBride was the overall heptathlon winner with a career-best 4,315 points, followed by Sorenson (3,349) and Talley (3,227).
 
McBride was back on the podium a few hours later after dominating the field in the 400m hurdles. Her time of 1:04.39 represented a personal best and is the Eagles' fastest time in that event this season.
 
Ta'Leah Adams earned her second gold medal of the competition when she won the shot put with a PR and ERAU season-best mark of 12.69m. Madison Morris also had a personal best with a toss of 12.32m to take second and Amberleigh Sauer (11.81m) and Sierra Coward (11.81) were fourth and fifth, respectively.
 
In the triple jump Kamri Roan had the best jump of her career (11.54m) to claim gold. Sorenson also had a PR in that event with her leap of 11.07 which put her in third place.
 
Sierra Coward won an all-Embry-Riddle final in the 100m hurdles crossing in 14.54 ahead of Roan (15.25) and Dejah Saunders (15.39).
 
The 100m dash featured two of the top five fastest times in ERAU women's track & field history. Shenya Patrice finished second n 11.90 seconds, just .05 seconds behind the program record set by Crystal Bardge in 2012. Nina Richardson was a close third, finishing in 12.05, which is the fifth-fastest time at ERAU.
 
The closest race of the day was between Richardson and Patrice in the 200m. Patrice led for much of the race, but Richardson closed late to clip Patrice at the end. Richardson won the race in 24.73, just ahead of Patrice who crossed in 24.74. Those times are the third and fourth fastest in ERAU history.
 
Ukeyvia Beckwith added three more gold medals to her impressive career tally. In the 400m, she raced to first place in 55.95 ahead of the Eagles' Morgan Dudley who was third in 57.76. Less than a hour later, Beckwith was back on the track to defend her title in the 800m, which she did successfully, winning by more than two seconds in 2:14.62. In the final event of the meet, Beckwith anchored the 4x400m relay, teaming up with Morgan Dudley, Richardson and McBride to win that race in 3:53.02.
 
Several Eagles received superlative awards, including Richardson who was named to the All-Sportsmanship team. For the second time in her career, Beckwith was named the PBC Female Track Athlete of the Year after scoring 30 points. Field Athlete of the Year honors went to Adams and Coward who scored 28 points each, while Patrice's 16 points earned her Freshman Track Athlete of the Year recognition. ERAU Head Coach Mike Rosolino was voted Coach of the Year for the third time in four seasons in the PBC.
 
The Eagles will have two more chances to qualify for nationals, beginning with the UNF Invitational in Jacksonville on April 30.