Meghan Quinn Awarded Bison of the Week Laurels

4/3/2023 1:36:00 PM | Women's Track and Field

LEWISBURG, Pa.- Meghan Quinn earned Bison of the Week on Monday for her extraordinary efforts at the Colonial Relays on Friday and Saturday. The junior sprinter shattered three school records in the 100-meter dash, 200-meter dash, and the 4x400-meter relay as part of her historic weekend. Quinn now holds five school records for indoor and outdoor track & field.

Quinn broke the 100-meter dash and the 200-meter dash records on Friday. Her 11.69 time in the 100-meter event was one one-hundreth second away from tying for first in the event. Her speed of 23.85 placed her second in the 200-meter dash.

The old mark of 11.84 for the 100-meter dash was present since Kaitlin Salisbury set it in 2018. Quinn was previously third all-time with a time of 12.00. The 200-meter dash record of 24.42 was accomplished by Jess Bridle in 2016. Quinn was fifth with a time of 24.70 in the event.

On Saturday, Quinn teamed up with Katherine Loew, Jessie Castellano, and Bridget Lalonde to set the school record in the 4x400-meter relay. The quartet's time of 3:42.78 finished second in the event and shattered the old Bucknell mark by nearly three seconds. The previous record was established back in 2013 by Zymet, Hornock, Bridle, and Nagotko.

Quinn completed her remarkable weekend by competing in the 4x100-meter relay. She and the trio of Lalonde, Lila Gaughan, and Karen Hull finished fifth with a time of 47.14. That mark is now sixth in the Bucknell annals for the event.

This is the second time that Meghan Quinn has earned Bison Athlete of the Week during the 2022-23 academic year. She previously won the award on Feb. 26. Quinn's crowning also means a women's track & field athlete has won the honor in back-to-back weeks as Abby Kates was selected last week. Four times this year, a women's track & field athlete has been anointed for the honor: Quinn (twice), Karen Hull, and Kates. That is the most times out of any sport so far.

The women's track & field team has back-to-back-to-back Bison of the Week two times (2004-2005 and 2021-2022) and have won the honor back-to-back three times (2015-16, 2018-19, and 2022-23).

Quinn and the Bison return to action this weekend at the Lehigh Invitational.