DES MOINES, IOWA -- Drake junior Ari Curtis (Fort
Collins, Colo.) will make her season debut in the heptathlon when she competes
at the Kansas Relays this Wednesday and Thursday.
WHAT'S AHEAD: Drake junior Ari Curtis (Fort Collins,
Colo.) will make her season debut in the heptathlon when she competes at the
Kansas Relays this Wednesday and Thursday.
Distance running standouts Nicole Braunsdorf (St.
Francis, Wis.) and Casey McDermott (Newton, Iowa) will head west to compete in
the 5,000 at the Mt. SAC Relays Friday night. The remainder of the team will travel to Iowa City, Iowa,
for the Iowa Invitational Saturday.
CURTIS SHINES: Drake junior Ari Curtis set a school record for the second
straight week en route to winning the women's 400 hurdles at the Jim Duncan
Invitational last Saturday at Drake Stadium.
Curtis was timed in 59.27 seconds, breaking the school
record of 1:00.0 that she set when running the event for the first time in the
Tom Botts Invitational at Columbia, Mo., April 3. Curtis also set a personal
best in the women's javelin at 110 feet 3 inches en route to an eighth-place
finish.
Junior Beth Hamling (Council Bluffs, Iowa) won the
400-meter dash in a personal best of 55.96, while finishing third in the 200 in
25.10. Curtis and Hamling also ran the second and third legs on Drake winning
4x100 relay which was clocked in 47.62.
Hamling and Curtis ran the first and fourth legs on the
Bulldogs' 4x400 relay which was second in a season best 3:50.38. Senior Caitlin Able (Aurora, Colo.), who ran the second leg on the 4x400 relay, was third in
the 400 in 58.39.
Junior Kara McCartney (Elgin, Iowa) was second in the
800 in 2:14.70, while junior Casey McDermott was fourth in 2:15.02. Earlier.
McDermott was fourth in the 1,500 in 4:38.19, while senior Nicole Braunsdorf
was fifth in 4:39.70.
Junior Cambria Pardner (Aurora, Colo.) was third in the
triple jump at 38 feet 3.5 inches, while placing fifth in the 100 in 12.34.
Drake junior Johanna Sprang (New Brighton, Minn.) was fourth in the women's
pole vault at 11-5.75, while junior Molly Scott (Kansas City, Mo.) was fifth at
11-5.75.
Drake juniors Tyse Samani (Kansas City, Mo.) and
Michelle Mitchell (Brookfield, Wis.) tied for fifth in the high jump at 5-1.
Drake freshman Briana Isom-Brummer (St. Louis, Mo.) was seventh at
5-1.Isom-Brummer was sixth in the
long jump at 16-11.Freshman Marissa Smith (Ajax, Ontario, Canada) was sixth in
the 100 hurdles in 14.66, with freshman Sarah Yeager (Ottumwa, Iowa) seventh in
14.69. Pardner and Yeager also ran legs on Drake's winning 4x100 relays. Yeager
also was third in the 400 hurdles in 1:04.46.
