The Shippensburg University women's indoor track & field team, buoyed by Most Valuable Athlete Sasha Lee, achieved a second-place finish at the 2025 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Indoor Track & Field Championships that wrapped on Sunday at Lehigh University's Rauch Fieldhouse.
 
Shippensburg maintained a 1.75-point lead on East Stroudsburg (84.5 to 82.75) for second place entering the final event, the 4x400-meter relay, in which the Raiders placed third and the Warriors 11th. Emily Calamia, Aliyah Serrano, Madison Malcolm and Alyssa Wert delivered a season-best time of 3:59.27.
 
SU's final total of 90.5 points makes it 15 total red (second place) or blue (first place) trophies for the Raiders in the 23-year history of the PSAC Indoor Championships.
 
Lee earned the 2025 PSAC Indoor Championships Most Valuable Female Athlete honor by being the top individual point scorer at the meet. In addition to her long jump title yesterday, Lee won the 60-meter hurdles and finished second in the triple jump on Sunday to net a total of 28 points.
 
She began the day with a successful triple jump on her second attempt that nearly won the competition. Her jump of 39 feet, 1 ¼ inches (11.92 meters) was her only mark of the day, as she then left the field to enter the track and record her first career PSAC Championship in the 60-meter hurdles finals by running a victorious time of 8.83 seconds that is just .03 seconds off her PR (8.80 seconds, fourth in school history).
 
Lee became the fourth Raider in school history to win an indoor hurdles title (55-meter hurdles from 2002-09, 60-meter hurdles from 2010-present), joining Danielle Sciremammano (2018), Caitlin Stuetz (2011-12) and Tunisia Lacy (2004-05).
 
The hurdles victory makes Lee one of four Raiders to finish as a four-time scorer in the indoor hurdles; she was fourth last season, second in 2023 and fifth in 2022. Lee joins Sciremammano (third in 2015, second in 2016, third in 2017, 2018 champion), Lyndsay Barna (sixth in 2011, eighth in 2012, seventh in 2013, sixth in 2014) and Stuetz (seventh in 2010, 2011 champion, 2012 champion, second in 2013) in Raider lore.
 
Lee was one jump attempt away from becoming just the third athlete in PSAC history to win the long jump, triple jump and 60-meter hurdles in the same season (Tabitha Bemis in 2013 and 2014, Lacy in 2004 and 2005). On her sixth and final attempt, East Stroudsburg sophomore Shannon Harnett jumped 39 feet, 3 inches (11.96 meters) to bump Lee back to second place. Harnett was named the 2025 PSAC Championships Outstanding Field Athlete; she also finished second in the high jump and third in the long jump.
 
Lee joins current jumps coach Sarah Hewitt as the only two Raiders to finish as four-time placewinners in the triple jump. The 2022 and 2024 champion, Lee also finished fourth in 2023. Hewitt won the 2015 and 2017 PSAC titles while finishing sixth in 2014 and second in 2016.
 
The long jump (18 points), 60-meter hurdles (16 points) and triple jump (12 points) proved to be Shippensburg's three highest scoring events, as Lee was accompanied by a fellow Raider on the awards stand in each.
 
For the second straight day, Riyah Whigham scored alongside Lee in a horizontal jump. Whigham landed a new PR on each of her final two attempts with the exact same mark – 38 feet, 2 inches (11.63 meters) – which resulted in a fifth-place finish. The jump puts Whigham in a tie for sixth place in school history for the event and exceeded her previous personal best by nearly two feet (old PR was 36 feet, 9 ¾ inches [11.22 meters]).
 
In the hurdles, Malcolm capped off a breakthrough indoor season with an All-PSAC third-place finish of 9.05 seconds and her first career scoring performance. Malcolm's prelim time of 8.97 seconds ranks No. 6 all-time in SU history.
 
With Lee and Malcolm's Top 3 finishes, it is the first time in school history that Shippensburg has had two All-PSAC performances in the indoor hurdles in the same season.
 
Two noteworthy field performances were integral to the cause and cracked the all-time Top 10 Raider performances in their respective events.
 
ShanAnn Simmons, the No. 11 seed in the shot put, made a statement in the opening flight with a new lifetime best of 41 feet, 4 ½ inches (12.61 meters) that put her into the finals as the No. 4 seed. Multiple throwers landed their best marks on their final attempts, including Simmons – whose final put of 41 feet, 6 inches (12.65 meters) resulted in a fifth-place finish and the No. 10 mark in school history.
 
It is Simmons' second straight year scoring in the shot put; she placed eighth last season. She improved her lifetime best by nearly a full foot (old PR was 40 feet, 4 ¾ inches [12.31 meters]).
 
Ashley Laukus scored in the high jump for the first time with an All-PSAC third-place finish of 5 feet, 5 ¾ inches (1.67 meters) that established a new personal best and the No. 6 all-time mark in school history. Laukus, who was 10th last season, got over the bar on her third and final attempt to improve upon her previous PR of 5 feet, 4 ½ inches (1.64 meters) set earlier this season.
 
Joining Laukus on the high jump awards stand was Allyson Richwine, who placed eighth with a clearance of 5 feet, 3 ¾ inches (1.62 meters). Richwine is now a three-time indoor scorer in the high jump; she placed fifth last season and second in 2023.
 
On the track, Wert and Calamia combined to deliver eight pivotal team points in the 400 meters. Wert, who finished eighth last season, scored for the second straight year with a fourth-place finish of 58.41 seconds – a new personal best that converts to the No. 8 performance in school history for the event. Calamia scored for the first time by crossing the finish line in sixth place in 58.88 seconds.
 
Kelsey Hull placed seventh in the mile, posting a time of 5:13.95. It is Hull's third career place-winning performance in the mile, accompanying a third-place finish last season and a seventh-place finish in 2023.
 
Slippery Rock won seven events and scored 153 points to post the largest margin of victory at the PSAC Indoor Championships in 13 years and make it back-to-back league titles for the Green and White. The Rock's Sam Gilbert was named the meet's Outstanding Track Athlete after winning the 60 and 200 meters and setting school records in both events.
 
Shippensburg and Slippery Rock have combined to win 16 of the 23 championships in league history. SU has eight outright championships, The Rock seven, and the two teams share the 2008 title.

Sunday's competition completes the indoor season for the Raiders. The outdoor season begins in three weeks with a new addition to the schedule – the Keystone Challenge – at which Shippensburg welcomes multiple Division I opponents to Seth Grove Stadium on Saturday, March 22.
 

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Results
 
60
12. Aliyah Serrano 7.86
18. Melanie Barger 8.09
19. Addalynn Brower 8.10
 
200
12. Aliyah Serrano 26.20
 
400
4. Alyssa Wert 58.41 (58.95p) (No. 8 all-time at SU)
6. Emily Calamia 58.88 (58.84p)
 
800
No entries
 
Mile
7. Kelsey Hull 5:13.95
 
3K
11. Victoria Mattioli 10:34.42
 
5K
13. Victoria Mattioli 18:47.39
 
60H
1. Sasha Lee 8.83 (8.95p)
3. Madison Malcolm 9.05 (8.97p) (No. 6 all-time in SU history)
12. Camryn Pyle 9.42
 
4x4
3. Emily Calamia, Aliyah Serrano, Madison Malcolm, Alyssa Wert 3:59.27
 
DMR
10. Victoria Bartholomew, Melanie Barger, Faith Wilson, Morgan Hess 13:06.16
 
High
3. Ashley Laukus 5' 5 ¾" (1.67m) (No. 6 all-time at SU)
8. Allyson Richwine 5' 3 ¾" (1.62m)
14. Elliot Oliphant 5' 1 ¾" (1.57m)
 
Pole
T4. Carissa Bender 11' 5 ¾" (3.50m)
 
Long
1. Sasha Lee 19' 0 ½" (5.80m) (NCAA 'P')
2. Riyah Whigham 18' 4 ¼" (5.59m)
 
Triple
2. Sasha Lee 39' 1 ¼" (11.92m) (NCAA 'P')
5. Riyah Whigham 38' 2" (11.63m) (T-No. 6 all-time at SU)
9. Anne Gardner 36' 9 ¾" (11.22m)
 
Shot
5. ShanAnn Simmons 41' 6" (12.65m) (No. 10 all-time at SU)
10. Kyra Love 38' 8 ¾" (11.80m)
12. Makayla Decker 38' (11.58m)
Caroline Mercer NM
 
Weight
4. Lauren Bellows 51' 1 ½" (15.58m)
16. ShanAnn Simmons 44' 3 ½" (13.50m)
 
Pentathlon
2. Nicola Puggé; 3370 (3391 w/conversion) (school record) (NCAA 'P')