MARION, IND.- Southern Wesleyan's women's track & field team posted five top-ten finishes, broke four school records, and one relay team made All-American status on the first day of the NCCAA Indoor National Championships hosted by Indiana Wesleyan University.
The Warriors are in eighth place with 14 points and are two points behind Dallas Baptist for seventh place and ten points behind Indiana Wesleyan for sixth place.
The 4x200-meter relay team of Amy Barton, Jess Maggio, Skylar Julian, and Morgan Haney finished second in a school record time of 1:42.98. They will receive All-American honors because they placed in the top-three. Amber King placed fifth in the long jump with a leap of 5.36 meters. The distance medley relay team of Alana Grant, Jordan Hargrave, Kira Emmett, and Michelle Last set a new school record as they placed seventh in 13:03.84. In the pentathlon, Shy'Keya Wimberly finished in ninth place with 2,675 points and Olivia Bush placed 12th with 2,169 points.
In the preliminaries of the 60-meter hurdles, two athletes qualified for the finals as Julian finished second in a school record of 8.98 and Maggio placed sixth in 9.19. Wimberly placed ninth in 9.45 and was only nine-hundredths of a second away from qualifying for the finals. Three athletes qualified for the finals of the 60 meters as Barton placed third in the preliminaries in a school record of 7.81, Haney finished fourth in 7.89, and Julian placed sixth in 7.93.
The second day of the meet will start tomorrow with the field events at 9 a.m. and the running events will begin at 11:45 a.m.
