Lincoln, Nebraska - The Omaha track and field team competed Friday at the Nebraska Tune-Up in preparation for the 2022 Summit League Indoor Championships, held next weekend in Grand Forks, North Dakota. 

"This is always a fun meet to come to since we're usually performing well right before the conference championships," said head coach Chris Richardson. "I lost track of the amount of season and personal bests since there were too many.  That's a good problem to have.  Now we carry that momentum into next week.  Nothing changes from now until then.  It doesn't matter if we're in practice, warming up or in competition, the goal stays the same."

Highlights from Friday included:

60m
Nina Cuevas continued her strong spring by running a lifetime best time of 7.84, good for fifth place.

200m
In the 200 meters, Carrie Simonson ran a season best time of 25.66, finishing sixth.

Long Jump
In the long jump, Simonson had an indoor PR in the long jump with a leap of 18'1.5".

400m
Paige Blackford ran a lifetime best of 58.30, finishing fourth. 
Gwen Steffen ran an indoor PR of 1:00.33, good for sixth place. 
Macy Persinger's indoor PR of 1:00.52 put her in seventh place. 
Brianna Fulton ran an indoor PR of 1:00.58, finishing in eighth. 

Mile
Madeline Yardley ran a lifetime best of 5:19.27.
Maya Nachtigal finished just behind Yardley, running a lifetime best of 5:19.74.
Danielle Howard and Zoe Christenson also had lifetime bests with 5:23.03 and 5:30.80, respectively. 

High Jump
In the high jump, Kaitlin Hellbusch finished in fourth place with an indoor PR of 5'4.25".
Milan Coggins had a college best jump of 5'2.25".
Anna Ehlers had a college best jump of 5'0.25".

Shot put
In the shot put, Mary Fennessy's college best throw of 43'3.75" moved her up to 8^th all-time in school history.

The Mavericks will head to Grand Forks, North Dakota for the Summit League Indoor Track & Field Championships next Friday and Saturday.