Pittsburg, Kan. -- For the third-straight meet, Missouri Southern sophomore pole vaulter Emily Presley has won an event and for the second-straight week, she has broken a Missouri Southern record en route to an NCAA automatic qualifying mark as the women's track and field team competed at Pittsburg State today. 

Presley last week broke the Missouri Southern record by clearing 13-07-25 at the MSSU Open to get an AQ and sit atop Division II's vaulting board by nearly six inches. Today, Presley won the seeded pole vault at Pitt State and cleared 14-00.00 to move even further ahead in solidifying her spot as the top pole vaulter in Division II. Her mark today is tops in Division II by more than ten inches and is the seventh-best vault in all of women's collegiate indoor pole vaulting this season. 

Presley won the pole vault today by a margin of 13 and a quarter inches. In the open pole vault, freshman Samantha Donnell won the event with a provisional height of 11-10.75. 

In other action for the Lions, Morgan Smith was 21st in the 200m dash with a time of 25.56, while Destiny Akannam was 19th in the 400m dash in a time of 58.52. Kelsie Evans and Rachel Ray placed 12th and 13th in the 600y, while Sara Lin was 19th in the 800m seeded race. 

In the unseeded 3k, Sierra Wells and Sierra Gray placed sixth and ninth, while Sarah Usher was 18th. In the seeded race, Emily Harris was seventh in a time of 19:16.73, while Cynthia Torres placed ninth. Christian Provence was 11th in the 5k in a time of 17:56.46. 

Smith narrowly missed out on the finals of the 60m hurdles, running a provisional time of 8.83 that would have qualified as the seventh-fastest, but missing out to two heat winners. 

The 4x400m relay team of Smith, Akannam, Kristen Koch and Allie Heckemeyer placed ninth with a school-record time of 3:56.78. Sierra Barrett was 25th in the triple jump, while Halee Cashio placed 20th in the weight throw. 

Southern will be back in action next Friday, participating in the Mule Relays at Central Missouri.