The UW-Parkside women's track team turned in several career best marks at Saturday's UW-Whitewater indoor track classic.
Whitney Olson finished second in the mile run and had teammates finish fourth and sixth. Olson's time of 5:15.75 was a career best mark by more than 2 seconds.
Hope Christie was the fourth place finisher and her time of 5:19.47 was more than a 10-second improvement from her first race of the season last week.
Heidi Ertl dropped down to the mile for the first time in roughly a year and ran a 5:22.99, a time almost identical to her best ever. Freshman
Danielle Dietz ran a career best mark, including high school, of 5:29.57, to place 10th in the field of 25 athletes.
Missy Nilles cleared her best height of the indoor season with a mark of 3.35m to place fourth in the event.
Julia Bernstein, a freshman, earned a fourth place finish in the 3000m Rrun with an improvement on her best from two weeks ago by over 11 seconds. Her time was 10:53.01.
Freshman
Jessica Watychowicz earned an eighth place finish out of the second section of the 800m (the first section had 12 athletes all seeded faster than her) with a time of 2:23.45, a season best time by more than 5 seconds. Freshman teammate
Charlotte Smith tied for eighth place in the high jump with a mark of 1.43m (4' 10.75").
The 4x400m relay team of Olson, Christie, Smith, and Watychowicz finished sixth overall with a time of 4:16.94, the best mark of the season.
Winona State won the nine-school invitational with 134.5 points and the University of Chicago was second with 114.5. UWP placed eighth with a total of 34.5 points.
Coach Mike De Witt had these comments about the Whitewater Classic: "The women put forth the kind of effort and energy I have been looking for from the program since the start of the school year. We competed for every spot we could get and we did that at the front of the races against some of the better DIII programs in the country. This was the first meet of the school year that saw everyone on the same competitive page. This is a young group with no seniors and more than half of the squad as freshmen and sophomores. We will contine to look to build on the results we saw here."
WOMEN'S MEET RESULTS:
http://www.uwwsports.com/custompages/wtrack/2010/Women_Results.htm
