PICTURED ABOVE: Favor Ezewuzie won three individual events and helped Wheaton's 4x100 relay team top the podium at Saturday's home meet.
Wheaton, Illinois – The Wheaton women's track and field team placed second in a field of 14 teams at Saturday's Don Church Twilight Meet at McCully Stadium.
Favor Ezewuzie won three individual events and two relay squads took first to help the Thunder earn 154.5 points. The University of Chicago won the meet with 217, and Ripon College placed third with 70.
Most notably, Ezewuzie's top finish in the 100-meter dash (12.30 seconds) moves her up to second on Wheaton's all-time list for that race, and is also the 22nd best time in the nation this spring.
Maggie Dansdill came in third in the 100 with a time of 12.60.
Ezewuzie also topped the podium in the 100 hurdles, finishing in 15.00, while Tess Sutton placed second in 15.59. And in the long jump, Ezewuzie took top honors with a leap of 5.29m,
Nicole Kitchen finished second with a mark of 5.20m and
Cassidy Foxhoven placed fifth with a jump of 4.96m.
Hannah Roeske (PICTURED RIGHT) continued to make her mark on Wheaton's all-time lists as well, placing first in the 800 in 2:14.24, good for sixth in the Thunder record books and 13th this season in Division III. In an exciting 3000-meter run,
Erika Johnson (10:12.39) edged out Roeske (10.12.66) to win, and both runners moved up in the school records and now stand, respectively, at fourth and fifth all-time in that race.
In the 400-meter hurdles,
Marissa Heath (PICTURED LEFT) won the event with a time of 1:04.10, and Sutton placed third in 1:08.51. Wheaton's relay squads won both the 4x100 and 4x400 Saturday
afternoon, with the 4x100 team of Ezewuzie, Dansdill, Heath and
Natasha Brown finishing in 48.54, and the 4x400 team of Dansdill, Brown, Kitchen and
Makenna Sanders finishing in 3:59.09. The Thunder also dominated the javelin, taking the top two spots thanks to
Eden Parker (33.10m) and
Ella Curry (31.30m).
Other top point-scoring performances for the Wheaton women included
Katie Lindquist, who took fifth in the high jump with a mark of 1.58m; Kitchen, who tied for sixth in the high jump with a leap of 1.53m;
Melody Daghfal, who placed sixth in the 400-meter run in a time of 1:03.17; and
Megan Bailey, who finished sixth in the 1500-meter in 4:48.53.
The Thunder will compete in three different meets in the next seven days, beginning with the Lewis University Twilight meet in Romeoville, Ill. on Tuesday. All events are scheduled to begin at 3:00 p.m.
