BLOOMINGTON, Ind.—Senior Audrey Comastri was less than a quarter of a second away from a school record, while Hadessah Austin recorded her fifth freshman record of the year as University of Southern Indiana Women’s Track & Field wrapped up the regular-season Friday night at the Billy Hayes Invitational.
Comastri led an impressive charge for the Screaming Eagles as she finished eighth in the 1,500-meter Invitational with a personal-best time of four minutes, 26.37 seconds. Her time was just .22 seconds away from USI Hall of Famer Heather Cooksey’s all-time mark of 4:26.15, which was set at the 2005 Little State Championships.
Her time ranks second all-time at USI and is at the top of the Ohio Valley Conference 1,500-meter performance list (as of May 2).
Austin’s fifth freshmen record of the 2025 indoor and outdoor seasons came in the 1,500 meters Friday night. The OVC Indoor Track & Field Freshman of the Year crossed the finish line in 4:33.79, which ranks 7th in the OVC and eighth all-time at USI.
The OVC champion in the indoor 3,000 and 5,000 meters, Austin now owns the school’s freshmen records in the indoor 3,000 meters and 5,000 meters as well as the outdoor 1,500 meters, 5,000 meters and 10,000 meters.
On the night, USI had seven top-10 finishes. Austin was fourth in the 1,500-meter open competition, while freshman Amber Fusner posted a fourth-place finish in the 3,000-meter steeplechase.
Sophomore Ellie Hall and junior Emily Rempe were fifth and seventh, respectively, in the open competition of the 1,500 meters, while freshmen Addison Applegate and Maggie Smith followed with respective placements of eighth and 10th.
Freshman Abrielle Richard rounded out the Eagles’ top-10 finishers with a 10th-place showing in the 800 meters.
USI concludes the 2025 season next week when it competes at the OVC Outdoor Championships May 15-17 in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
