Lehman-Woodyard, Sharp Leads Track & Field at Bison Outdoor Classic

Friday, April 12

Lewisburg, Pa.

10:30 AM

University of Delaware

Bison Outdoor Classic

Lehman-Woodyard, Sharp Leads Track & Field at Bison Outdoor Classic

4/13/2024 7:21:00 PM | Track & Field

Results

LEWISBURG, Pa. - The University of Delaware track & field team were led by a pair of Blue Hens at the three-day Bison Outdoor Classic, hosted by Bucknell University (April 12-14) from Christy Mathewson-Memorial Stadium in Lewisburg, Pa. Alicia Lehman-Woodyard and Sarah Sharp found themselves rewriting the school's history book competing in the heptathlon on Friday and Saturday.

HEN HIGHLIGHTS
Friday

Set to compete in four events to open day one, the duo combined for four new personal-best marks to set the tone.
The first event of the hep was the 100m hurdles and Lehman-Woodyard won her heat with a time of 14.93 (second place overall) while Sharp ran a PR time of 15.70 to finish in fifth place.
Next was the high jump where Lehman-Woodyard smashed last week's mark with a new PR of 1.64m for a second-place finish. Her new mark sits seventh in school history while Sharp leaped over a new PR bar of 1.40m.
The duo hit the track for the 200m where we saw a 1-2 Blue Hen finish. Lehman-Woodyard won the event with a time of 25.69 and Sharp was right behind her with a time of 26.30.
Day 1 of the hep was wrapped up with the shot put where Lehman-Woodyard threw a PR of 9.37m (sixth place) and Sharp threw for 8.14m (10th place).
Through 4 events of the Heptathlon, Lehman-Woodyard sits in 2nd with 2,946 points while Sharp is in eighth place with 2,442 points.

Saturday

The heptathlon continued Saturday morning with the long jump. Lehman-Woodyard won the event with a leap of 5.41m while Sharp finished in ninth place with a mark of 4.58m.
In the javelin, Lehman-Woodyard threw a career-best 28.06m to finish in fifth place while Sharp threw for 22.14m (ninth place).
The heptathlon concluded with the 800m where Sharp won the event with a PR time of 2:29.66 and Lehman-Woodyard clocked a PR time of 2:45.11 (seventh place).
Lehman-Woodyard finished the heptathlon racking up personal-best 4,576 points which now sits second in school history.
Sharp also put her name in the record books, finishing with a personal-best 3,916 points, which sits eight in school history.

GAME NOTES

This was both athletes first time competing in the heptathlon in their careers.
Lehman-Woodyard wrote her name in the school history books twice while Sharp wrote her name once.

UP NEXT
The Blue Hens will return to action next Friday for a two-day meet (April 19-20) at the Virginia Challenge, hosted by UVA. UD will then head to Baltimore, Md. to compete at the Hopkins/Loyola Invitational, hosted by Johns Hopkins University on Saturday (April 20).

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