Upper Iowa finished their regular season with a 4
th place finish at the Liz Wuertz Invitational. The Peacocks earned 43 points as a team, where they finished one point shy of placing in the top three. Hosts, Wartburg came in first place with 227 points and Central College placed second with 132 points.
Haylie Hutchinson led the way for Upper Iowa as she placed first in the triple jump for the third meet in a row, where she recorded a 10.52m jump. Hutchinson also recorded a second-place finish in the 60m hurdles, as she recorded a personal best time at 9.23. She recorded 18 points between the two events and joined
Jillian Dodds,
Mackenzie Rader, and
Eryn Sabelka in a second-place finish in the 4x400m relay with a 4:09.95 mark, earning eight points as a team. Dodds added another point for Upper Iowa, as she placed eighth in the 400m, with a time of 1:01.04.
The Peacocks excelled in the pole-vaulting event as
Kysta Ramirez and
Katie McEnery came in fourth and fifth place. Ramirez earned five points with a 2.60m vault while McEnery was right behind her at 2.45m. Ramirez also added another point for UIU in the 60m, where she came in eighth with a time of 8.44.
Jordan Sekafetz came in seventh in the long jump with a 4.67m mark, and recorded a time of 10.09 in the 60m hurdles, putting her in eighth place. She earned three points between the two events and joined Ramirez and Hutchinson as Peacocks who earned points in both a track and field event.
Myah Brinker earned UIU's final three points as she came in sixth place in the weight throw, where she posted a 14.67m mark.
UIU has finished in the top five in all of their meets this season and will look to achieve the same level of success as they compete in the Great Lakes Valley Conference Tournament, which will be held in Indianapolis, Ind. The meet will take place over a two-day span next weekend on February 24-25.