ITHACA, NY – Backed by three individual titles and 12 podium finishes, the University of Rochester women's track and field team secured a runner-up team finish at the 2025 Liberty League Indoor Track and Field Championships at Ithaca College's Glazer Arena on Saturday afternoon.
 
Rochester piled up 140 team points over the two-day meet, finishing second among seven schools to host Ithaca College who won the title with 209 points. RPI was third and finished as the only other school with more than 100 points, scoring 102. Vassar, RIT, Union and St. Lawrence rounded out the field.
 
Senior Megan Bell capped off a terrific meet, winning twice on Saturday to earn Liberty League Women's Track Performer of the Meet honors. Bell won the 800 meters and later anchored Rochester's winning 4x400 meter relay to finish the meet with three total wins and another runner-up result.
 
Bell's win in the 800 meters was with a time of 2:09.55, which set a new facility and meet record and would rank number one in Division III this season, if not for her own school record time set earlier this year.
 
In the relay, Bell, along with Eva Ciuffetelli, Nora Chen and Raquella Casserino finished in 3:51.58, another facility and meet record. The quartet smashed the previous Liberty League meet record by over seven full seconds. The group now ranks #3 on the Division III performance list heading into the last week of competition before nationals.
 
Rochester's third win of the day came from senior Deziree Garrick in the weight throw. Garrick had the two longest throws of the competition, qualifying for finals with a 15.63 meter toss on her opening throw before bettering that distance in round four, finishing at 16.00 meters.
 

The Yellowjackets had five podium finishers in the weight throw, with Cora Rose, Liv Ilasz, Madison Vargas and Zoe Chafouleas all securing top-8 results. Rose was runner-up with a personal-best mark of 15.06 meters, Ilasz ended fourth at 14.79 meters, with both, and Garrick, hitting the AARTFC qualifying standard. Vargas ended with a distance of 14.58 meters, also a PR, and Chafouleas hit 13.66 meters with her best throw.
 
In the 200 meters, Chen scored a third place result and AARTFC qualifier in 25.77 seconds. Earlier in the day, she secured a couple points for Rochester, ranking seventh in the 60 meter hurdle finals, finishing in 9.40 seconds, another regional qualifying mark.
 
UR's top two finishers in the 3000 meters, Sab Lin and Ellie Ponko, finished fifth and sixth, respectively, and both hit regional qualifying times and personal-best's. Lin crossed the stripe in 10:23.91 and Ponko finished just behind in 10:24.49.
 
Emily Dill was the final scorer for Rochester on day two, running a time of 2:20.35 in the 800 meters, placing seventh. Dill also hit a personal-best and regional qualifier.
 
Rochester's top competitors in the triple jump and high jump both finished in tenth place. Gracie Conlan scored a best mark of 10.12 meters in the triple jump, with Nora Dreslin pacing Rochester in the high jump, clearing 1.44 meters.
 
Next weekend, the Yellowjackets will be right back at Ithaca College, competing at the All-Atlantic Regional Track and Field Championships, taking place on Friday and Saturday.