Redbirds Close Out Competition at Illinois and Indiana – Illinois State University Athletics

CHAMPAIGN, In poor health. – Illinois State Monitor & Discipline closed out competitors at each the Illini and Indiana Invitationals on Saturday, as 4 Redbirds and one relay squad etched their names into this system file e-book with their performances.

800M SQUAD AT IU

It was fairly the weekend for redshirt sophomore Rachel Hickey, who notched an Illinois State all-time top-10 mark for the second day in a row. In a area of almost 34 rivals, Hickey completed fourth within the girls’s 800m with a brand new private finest time of two:07.36. Hickey now ranks No. 3 at school historical past within the occasion and he or she continues to carry the fourth-fastest time within the Valley on the season.

Within the males’s group, sophomore Riley Wells completed as the highest Redbird, as he clocked a time of 1:50.18 to match a season finest. Junior Joe Morrison completed simply behind Wells at 1:50.27, which ranks No. 4 within the MVC.

ACTION FROM THE ILLINI INVITATIONAL

Competing within the girls’s pole vault, sophomore Amni Austin cleared a brand new private finest of three.88m (12-8.75 ft.) to tie for second place. Her mark ranks No. 6 at school historical past and No. 2 within the MVC on the season. Senior Ali Craonston completed behind Austin with a private finest clearance of three.73m (12-2.75 ft.), which ranks No. 9 at school historical past.

Sophomore Joe Boyer had a powerful efficiency within the throwing ring, as he completed within the top-3 of each occasions he competed in. Within the shot put, Boyer threw an enormous private finest at 18.00m (59-0.75 ft.) to complete third. His throw ranks No. 6 at school historical past and is the third-best mark within the MVC on the season. On prime of his efficiency within the shot put, Boyer additionally completed second within the discus with a toss of fifty.08m (164-3 ft.).

The Redbird males’s 4x400m relay squad of Junias Holmes Jr., Avery Lyons, Cecil Brownridge III and Brandon Gage captured the win within the relay occasion, clocking a season finest time of three:09.54. That point ranks No. 1 within the MVC by almost 4 seconds, ranks No. 7 at school historical past and No. 21 within the NCAA West Area.

Operating the third leg of the 4x400m relay, Brownridge additionally gained the lads’s 400m sprint with a time of 47.59, which now leads the MVC.

It was a windy day within the quick sprints, because the Redbirds set or matched wind-aided private bests in 4 occasions:

The Redbird first win of the day got here within the girls’s 4x100m relay. The squad of Sa’Mone Winters, Bri Buggs, Madison Saunders and Arianna Walker completed in a time of 46.03 seconds. The boys’s 4x100m relay workforce clocked a season better of 41.05 to complete third.

Freshman Elijah Williams was topped the triple bounce champion with a leap of 14.73m (48-4 ft.), a brand new private finest below all circumstances.

Illinois State completed second in each the lads’s and ladies’s excessive bounce competitions, as sophomore Carly Tucker was the runner-up on for the ladies. Tucker cleared an outside private better of 1.70m (5-7 ft.), which is tied for No. 2 within the MVC on the season. Within the males’s competitors, junior Cameron Will get positioned second with a clearance of two.05m (6-8.75 ft.).

For the second week in a row, senior Logan Calvin gained the lads’s shot put as he threw 18.94m (62-1.75 ft.), his second finest efficiency of the outside season.

On the ladies’s facet, sophomore Mye’Joi Williams set an outside season finest within the shot put with a throw of 15.11m (49-7 ft.) to put third.

UP NEXT

With the conclusion of the Illini and Indiana Invitationals, the Redbirds will shift their focus to the Drake Relays and Clark Wooden Invitational earlier than wrapping up the common season with a visit to Wisconsin.

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