West Long Branch, N.J. - Shanae Rayside snapped the team triple jump record while she and her senior counterpart, Aniyah Russell, enjoyed first-place finishes in their respective events as Georgian Court University women's track & field kicked off the 2022 outdoor season with a bang in the two-day Monmouth University Outdoor Home Opener.

Rayside topped all-comers in the triple jump with a top leap of 11.69 meters. The effort surpasses the Lions' previous program-best of 11.61m, originally established by former GCU indoor All-American, Lyric Green, on two separate occasions back in 2019. Russell, coming off an indoor All-American campaign of her own, opened the outdoor slate with a first-place finish of 5.76 meters in the long jump.

Jaison-Ashley Pleva (So.) landed a third-place mark of 10.71 meters in the triple to kick off the calendar. Fresh of the conclusion of her stellar basketball career with the Lions, Hanna Thrainsdottir made her track & field debut for the royal-and-gold as the senior tied for fourth-place in the high jump at 1.55 meters.

Other Top-10 finishes include:

Ginalee Erskine, Hammer, 7^th-place, 43.86m

Ginalee Erskine, Discus, 10^th-place, 33.51m

Ginalee Erskine, Javelin, 7^th, 35.85m

Elena Keck, Shot Put, 8^th, 11.13m

Elena Martinez Rodriguez, High Jump, T-9^th, 1.45m

Haley Amogretti, 100m Hurdles,  8^th, 15.38 sec.

The Lions return to action next week (Friday-Saturday) with an appearance in the Towson University Invitational in Towson, Md.