The women’s track team may not have won the MWC indoor championship this weekend, but it ran away with the best finish and highest point total at an indoor championship in school history.
The Lobos placed first in two events and broke three school records. Junior distance runner Josephine Moultrie won gold in the mile with a time of 5:07.80, and finished second in the 800-meter run with a time of 2:09.27, a new school record.
“I was actually quite pleased with the 800,” Moultrie said. “The pace was very fast from the start and I wasn’t expecting it, but I started to run more even paced and it really paid off.”
Junior pole vaulter Amber Menke set a school record in the pole vault with her second-place jump of 4.11 meters. She lost by .16 meters to San Diego State’s Kelsy Hintz.
“I thought she had it won, but the girl from San Diego State had an incredible meet,” head track and field coach Joe Franklin said.
Both of the school records that Moultrie and Menke beat were records they had set earlier in the season.
The 4×400 meter relay team of junior sprinters Tawsha Brazley, Shirley Pitts, Rachel Kelchner and freshman sprinter Mickey Brown finished third, but broke the school record with a time of 3:43.61.
Pitts snagged the conference title in the 400-meter dash with a time of 53.89 seconds and junior distance runner Imogen Ainsworth was second behind Moultrie in the mile with a time of 5:10.87
Senior distance Sarah Waldron took third place in the 3000-meter run with a time of 9:53.11.
Junior hurdler Precious Selmon finished in third place in the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 8.53 seconds. Freshman jumper Aasha Marler snagged third place in the triple jump with a leap of 11.74 meters.
“I think it was a good day (and good weekend) all around,” Franklin said. “We had some good performances.”
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