Sophomore Lauren Iagnemma set a school record in the 3,000-meter run for the Case Western Reserve University women's track and field team on the second and final day of competition at the 2024 University Athletic Association Indoor Track and Field Championships hosted by New York University at the Armory Track and Field Center in Manhattan, New York on Sunday.
Iagnemma completed the race in 9:58.94, becoming the first runner in program history to break 10 minutes in the event. The previous record of 10:02.99 was set by Kelsey Aamoth in 2014. Iagnemma finished ninth in the conference. It marked the second school record she helped to set at the 2024 UAA Indoor Championships after she joined senior Grace Jackson and sophomores Melanie Taylor and Arianna Holbrook for a record-setting performance in the distance medley relay on Saturday.
Four Spartans scored for the team on Sunday. In the field, junior Sarah Ozeki placed fifth in the triple jump by bounding 11.37 meters, the third-best mark in program history. Senior Adrienne Wachtman had the sixth-best throw in the shot put of 12.18 meters, scoring three points for CWRU.
Sophomore Grace Misiunas followed her school record time in the Saturday prelims of the 60-meter hurdles with a sixth-place finish in the final of the event in 9.24 seconds. Holbrook placed eighth in the mile run with a time of 5:10.07.
To conclude competition, the CWRU 4x400-meter relay of Taylor, seniors Anna Zinsser and Jessica Kwasny, and junior Marquis Globokar placed seventh in 4:13.35.
Overall, the Spartans placed fifth in the conference standings with 41.5 points. WashU won the conference championship with 190.0 points, followed by Chicago with 170.0 points, Emory with 112.5 points, and Carnegie Mellon with 56.5 points. NYU (33.5 points) and Brandeis (18.0 points) trailed CWRU.
Members of the track and field team will have one more weekend of opportunity to record qualifying marks for the 2024 NCAA Division III Indoor Track and Field Championships. Spartans with top 100 national marks will head to either the Mount Union Last Chance Meet in Alliance, Ohio, or the Tufts National Qualifier in Medford, Massachusetts, on Saturday, March 2 to attempt to improve on their times and marks. Selections for the national championship will be announced in the evening on Sunday, March 3 on ncaa.com with the meet held on Friday, March 8 and Saturday, March 9 at the Virginia Beach Sports Center in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
