BLOOMINGTON, Ind. —Â The University of Evansville track and field team wrapped up its time at the Indiana Invitational with another podium finish and three more broken program records.
Sprinter Taylor Johnson (Evansville, Ind. / Reitz HS) broke her previous 400-meter record for the Purple Aces second podium finish of the weekend. Johnson placed third in the event while running a 57.80 while teammate Eilen Brenne (Skein, Norway) placed 13th with a time of 1:01.19. Along with another podium placement, UE set new program records in two other events.
Graduate thrower Zach Dove (Princeton, Ind. / Princeton Community HS) topped Evansville’s record in the men’s shot put with a throw of 15.53 meters for a seventh-place finish. Dove now holds both the indoor shot put and weight throw program records after Saturday’s performance. The Ace’s other new program record came in the men’s 4×400-meter relay as the team of Austin Liversgowdy (Florence, Ky. / Cooper HS), Raymond Felton III (Houston / Clear Brook HS), Jose Ocampo (Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico), and Alvaro Monfort (Castile Y Leon, Spain) ran a 3:22.79 for a fifth-place finish.
The women’s 4×400-meter relay team came just two seconds shy of their program best last weekend, running a 4:03.58 for an eighth-place finish. Also on the track, UE had three runners compete in the men’s 400-meter race all finishing within three spots of each other. Liversgowdy had the best finish at ninth by running a 51.16 and was closely followed by Ocampo with a season-best 51.90 run while Jakub Nowick (Poznan, Poland) ended in 11th with a 52.00 run.
Mid-distance runners for Evansville also had a good day with two top 10 finishes in the women’s 800-meter race and two top 15 finishes on the men’s side. Nayla Martin (Vaudreuil-Dorion, Quebec, Canada) placed eighth with a time of 2:18.24 while Kalina Urbaniak (Suchy Las, Poland) finished right behind her in ninth with a time of 2:16.68. In the men’s 800-meter race Monfort and Adam Oulgout (St. Paul, Minn. / Central HS) ran identical times of 1:56.488 to tie for 14th. Tommaso Losma (Lombardia, Italy) also finished the 800-meter with a time of 2:02.11.
The Aces finished their day on the track with the 3000-meter events as Sonja Inzinger (Mautern an der Donau, Austria) had the highest placement at fifth with a time of 9:58.82. Graduate distance runner Sarah Vanderhoof-Dossett (Franklin, Tenn. / Independence HS) finished the event in 16th with a time of 10:37.46. On the men’s side Samuel Lea (Worchester, England) placed 10th with a time of 8:32.08 while Rafael Rodriguez and Owen Cuplin finished with times of 8:35.78 and 9:09.75 respectively.
UE’s throwers fared well on Saturday along with Dove’s new program record. Jaden Hayes (Huntingburg, Ind. / Southridge HS) had a season-best in the shot put with a throw of 14.19 meters. In the women’s shot put Brooke Springer threw 9.39 meters while freshman Jillian Miller made her throwing debut at 8.07 meters.
