Members of the Case Western Reserve University men's and women's track and field teams broke program records in three events at three different meets on Friday and Saturday.

At the GVSU Big Meet in Allendale, Michigan, junior Lauren Iagnemma bested her own school record in the 3000-meter run with a time of 9:55.90. She placed 23rd in her heat, which featured runners from all three NCAA Divisions. Iagnemma's previous school record of 9:58.94 was set last season at the conference championships.

At the All-Ohio Championships in Westerville, Ohio, first-year Tanush Anand extended his own school record in the triple jump, bounding 13.89 meters to place third. His previous best mark was 13.88 meters and was set in the season-opening meet.

Also in Westerville, the women's 4x200-meter relay of sophomore Sarah Ball, junior Grace Misiunas, first-year Siena Kannenberg, and first-year Riley Friedman ran a school-record time of 1:48.41. The quartet bested the previous record of 1:49.14 set by Ball, Kannenberg, Friedman, and junior Melanie Taylor earlier this year.

Overall, the CWRU women's track and field team placed third out of 15 teams with 77.0 points at the All-Ohio Championships and the Spartan men's track and field team placed fifth out of 16 teams with 57.0 points.

The Spartans placed first in three events at the championship. In the weight throw, senior Lauren Roskuszka had the best mark with a heave of 15.58 meters, and junior Michelle Lee placed third with a toss of 15.29 meters. Graduate student Michaela Burkhauser stood atop the podium for the shot put after a mark of 13.43 meters, and sophomore Jacob Slater was the first to cross the line in the 3000-meter run at 8:52.53.

In distance events, senior Mike Lombardi was the runner-up for the 5000-meter run with a time of 15:27.87, and juniors Arianna Holbrook and Julia Hluck placed second and third, respectively, in the mile run in 5:14.49 and 5:16.85.

Both of the CWRU distance medley relays earned the bronze medal at the meet. The women's DMR of junior Ayla Grabenbauer and first-years Becca Liaw, Julia Walko, and Cecilia Postma recorded a time of 13:18.41, and the men's relay of first-year Adam Esa, senior Nicolas Lende, sophomore Seth Tivakaran, and first-year Adam Joseph combined for a time of 10:47.19.

Rounding out the top three finishes for the Spartans were senior Jordan Su, who took third in the triple jump with a mark of 10.40 meters, and junior Josh Bates, who placed third in the 400-meter dash in 51.07 seconds.

Case Western Reserve also sent team members to the Crimson & Gold Invite in Oberlin, Ohio, where the Spartans won 11 events.

CWRU swept the throwing events, the high jump, and the pole vault. Burkhauser won the shot put with a toss of 13.78 meters (0.31 meters short of the school record), and Roskuszka placed first in the weight throw with a heave of 15.40 meters. Sophomore Toby Langsner won both events for the men's team, throwing the shot put 14.84 meters and the weight 14.99 meters.

In the high jump, first-year Eyoha Teshome cleared 1.47 meters to take first, and junior Finnegan O'Leary cleared 1.50 meters to win the men's event. First-year vaulter Emi Ellis cleared 2.59 meters and senior vaulter Quaylen Lamarre cleared 4.47 meters to win an event for CWRU.

Finally in the field, first-year Pierre-Andre Geoffrion leapt the furthest in the long jump, jumping 6.27 meters.

On the track, junior Gabby Alphonse placed first in the 60-meter hurdles in 10.83 seconds, and sophomore Praveen Sureshkumar crossed the line first in the 800-meter run at 2:02.75.

At the Big Meet at Grand Valley State, distance runners Nate Gilbert (mile run, 4:16.02) and Ashley Novak (5000-meter run, 17:49.77) recorded top ten all-time times for the program. Gilbert also joined first-year Donovan Crowley, first-year Paul Salah, and senior Hans Holst for the distance medley relay, recording a time of 10:11.55.

The Spartans will host the Ed Finnegan Greater Cleveland Colleges Invite on Friday, February 21 with action at the Veale Center slated to begin at 4 p.m.

Spartan Notes

• Gilbert's time in the mile at GVSU was third fastest in program history
• Langsner recorded the fifth-best mark in the shot put in CWRU history
• Junior Joshua Park recorded a time of 8.46 seconds in the 60-meter hurdles, the third-fastest time in program history
• In the prelims of the 60-meter dash, Ball ran 8.08 seconds, the fourth-best all-time mark
• Friedman tied for the fourth-best time in program history in the 200-meter dash with a mark of 26.85 seconds