BROOKINGS, S.D. – The Omaha track & field team added to its lifetime bests list this season at the Jim Emmerich/Alumni Invitational at South Dakota State on Saturday.
"We had some good things happen, but we still have a lot of work to do as well," said head coach
Chris Richardson. "For a handful of athletes, this was their first meet of the season so they now have a baseline of where they are.
"For everyone else, they need to continue to do the right things to get better every day."
On the track, sophomore
Heidi Hall ran a lifetime best in the 3,000 meters, coming in 10th in a time of 10:24.03. It was more than nine seconds faster than her previous best.
In the same race,
Ivanna Uribe ran a time of 11:03.39, and
Maya Nachtigal, running the race for the first time in her college career, posted a time of 11:07.29.
In the 600 meters,
Jaycee Schettler, fresh off setting a lifetime best in the pentathlon last weekend, set a lifetime best with a time of 1:43.54, good for seventh.
Schettler led a host of Mavericks in the race.
Scarlett Hill, running the race for the first time, posted a time of 1:44.07 to finish eighth.
Paige Blackford, also debuting in the race, was ninth in a time of 1:44.90.
In the short sprints, both
Brekk Flax and
Carrie Simonson qualified for the finals in the 60 meters after running preliminary times of 7.91 and 8.05 respectively. In the finals, Flax finished third in a time of 7.90, and Simonson was fifth with a lifetime best of 8.01.
Simonson also had a lifetime best in the 200 meters, finishing sixth in a time of 26.47.
Simonson also took eighth in the long jump with a mark of 16-09 ¼.
The Mavericks will head north again next week to take part in the Jack Johnson Classic at Minnesota on Friday and Saturday, Jan. 31-Feb. 1.
