Indiana track and field headlined by throwers this weekend

Indiana monitor and discipline cut up the weekend because the throwers traveled to Triton Monitor and Subject Stadium in San Diego, California, and the remainder of the staff traveled to the Tom Black Monitor in Knoxville, Tennessee. The groups regarded to proceed their sizzling begins to the out of doors season. 

In California, sophomore Jayden Ulrich broke this system file within the discus occasion, which she already owned. Her distance of 59.29 meters is fifth greatest within the nation this season.  

Senior Paola Fernandez-Sola competed within the lengthy leap occasion to open the meet in Tennessee. She now holds the highest spot within the Large Ten with 6.49 meters, incomes her first place within the occasion. Freshman Kelly Moran set a private greatest within the lengthy leap with 5.58 meters. 

The Hoosiers continued their sizzling streak within the males’s pole vault. Sophomore Tyler Carrel positioned first with a peak of 5.25 meters, and senior Nathan Stone completed runner-up with a peak of 5.15 meters. Each freshman Riley Johnston and junior Tyler Sierks positioned inside the highest ten as nicely. 

The final occasion of day one in Knoxville was the 5,000-meter race. Within the ladies’s race, sophomore Claire Overfelt took the highest spot with a private greatest time of 16:45.91 seconds. Within the males’s race, graduate scholar Skylar Stidam and senior Tristan Forsythe took second and third place with occasions of 14:27.95 and 14:33.38 seconds, respectively. 

The Hoosiers took house 5 particular person titles on the second day of competitors in Knoxville. Junior Mahogany Jenkins began out the day profitable the ladies’s triple leap with a distance of 12.45 meters. Freshman Taylor Schoonveld received the ladies’s excessive leap with a peak of 1.60 meters, a private greatest. 

Sophomore Camden Marshall received the lads’s 800-meter occasion with a time of 1:50.98 seconds. Freshman Keefer Soehngen positioned fourth with a time of 1:52.56 seconds. Graduate Jake Gebhardt continued his spectacular season, this time within the 3,000-meter steeplechase, profitable with a time of 8:59.77 seconds. 

The Hoosiers closed out the weekend within the males’s 4×400 meter relay, the place the “A” relay staff positioned first in 3:18.69 seconds. 

Subsequent week, the Hoosiers will compete in three meets together with the Jim Freeman Invitational, Bryan Clay Invitational, and the Mt. Sac Relays subsequent weekend April 14-16. The groups look to shut out their lengthy stretch of away meets sturdy earlier than returning house for the Hoosier invitational on April 20 and 21.