ANGOLA, Ind. – Working all season long for the main event of the indoor track and field season, the Alma College track and field team put their talent on display at the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association Indoor Field Day on Friday, February 27th and Saturday, February 28th. The women's team finished in fourth with a team score of 44.83 while the men finished eighth with a score of 18.5.
Taking a dive into the women's field events, Lauren Brawt collected a sixth-place finish in the long jump with a mark of 5.35 meters, scoring three team points. Helena Snyder finished fourth in the high jump, scoring 4.5 team points for the Scots with a mark of 1.56 meters. In the throwing events, Ella Moylan secured a third-place finish in the shot put with a throw of 11.39 meters, scoring six points. Also securing a third-place finish was Lauren McCarthy who cleared a mark of 3.02 meters in the pole vault, good for another six points. Kennedi Wahmhoff also competed in the pole vault, finishing seventh with a mark of 2.92 meters, a personal best, scoring two more points. MaryAlice Lynch finished eighth in the same event, adding 0.33 of a point, after clearing a mark of 2.77 meters.
Switching to the track events, Brawt added another sixth-place finish in the 800-meter run, finishing with a time of 2:21.34, beating the previous school record set by Blaire Showers in 2017 (2:22.83) by over a second and setting a new personal record. Brawt's finish also scored another three points to the team total. The 4000-meter distance medley relay team of Chloe Colton, Sophia Sanford, Jordan Fox and Sophia Dech finished fifth, scoring four additional points with a time of 13:39.64. Another fifth-place finish came from the 4x400 meter relay team of Brawt, Wahmhoff, Fox and Snyder as they finished in a time of 4:15.19, a top ten program time and another four points scored.
Swapping to the men's side of the competition, in the field events, Callen Hagey scored a seventh-place finish in the weight throw with a new personal best mark of 15.10 meters, scoring two points. Ed Markarian also finished seventh in the long jump leaping to a mark of 6.48 meters, scoring another two points. Markarian also collected a sixth-place finish in the triple jump with a new personal record jump of 13.09 meters. Markarian finished scored three points for the Scots as well. Looking at the pole vault standings, Nickolas Savoie finished fifth with a vault of 4.16 meters, scoring 3.5 points. The men's distance medley relay team of Elliot Buchan, Phillip Banner, Aiden Aldrich and Noah Murphy finished with a time of 11:44.42, which was good for seventh and two more points. The 4x400 meter relay team of Aldrich, Banner, Leland Edelyn and Brady Crake finished fourth and scored four points with a time of 3:37.41, rounding out the scoring for the Scots.
Alma will now look at the performance lists around the country and wait for selections to see if any Scots will be traveling to the National Championship meet to be held in Birmingham, Alabama on Friday and Saturday, March 13th and 14th.
