School Record and DMR Title Highlight First Day of B1G Indoor Track and Field Championships
2/23/2024 10:14:00 PM | Track and Field
GENEVA, Ohio – Day one of the Big Ten Indoor Track and Field Championships Friday featured several Spartan successes, including a women's DMR championship, finals qualifications and a broken school record.
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"We had a fantastic first day that really demonstrates our process of building," Director of Cross Country and Track & Field Lisa Breznau said. "Everyone here is a part of the success of everyone else, so the accomplishments that we had today, everyone had a hand in."
While day one consisted of mostly preliminaries, the Michigan State men occupy 7th in the team standings with 11 points while the women are 6th of 13 with 20 points ahead of the conference finals Saturday.
Graduate student and likely NCAA Championships heptathlete Heath Baldwin set his fourth MSU school record, his 7.86 second 60 meter hurdles time breaking the previous record last set by Will Agodu in 2018. The 2023 George Alderton Male Athlete of the Year also holds the MSU Heptathlon, Decathlon and Javelin records.
To cap off the afternoon, the women's distance medley relay team avenged their second-place finish at last season's championships with the team's first championship of the weekend. Junior Kate Stewart-Barnett, senior Shae Harbaugh, senior Abbey Carvey and graduate student Lauren Freeland outpaced the conference competition with a time of 11:12.91.
Other B1G Indoors Day One Highlights
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"We had a fantastic first day that really demonstrates our process of building," Director of Cross Country and Track & Field Lisa Breznau said. "Everyone here is a part of the success of everyone else, so the accomplishments that we had today, everyone had a hand in."
While day one consisted of mostly preliminaries, the Michigan State men occupy 7th in the team standings with 11 points while the women are 6th of 13 with 20 points ahead of the conference finals Saturday.
Graduate student and likely NCAA Championships heptathlete Heath Baldwin set his fourth MSU school record, his 7.86 second 60 meter hurdles time breaking the previous record last set by Will Agodu in 2018. The 2023 George Alderton Male Athlete of the Year also holds the MSU Heptathlon, Decathlon and Javelin records.
To cap off the afternoon, the women's distance medley relay team avenged their second-place finish at last season's championships with the team's first championship of the weekend. Junior Kate Stewart-Barnett, senior Shae Harbaugh, senior Abbey Carvey and graduate student Lauren Freeland outpaced the conference competition with a time of 11:12.91.
Other B1G Indoors Day One Highlights
- Sophomore Natalie Blake clears her sixth Pole Vault PR of the season by almost 8 inches at 4.25m, finishes fifth overall
- One-two punch of Freeland and Stewart-Barnett finish first and second in the women's mile qualifiers
- Senior Owen Huard finishes fourth in men's mile, is finals bound Saturday
- Harbaugh blitzes to a qualification for the 600m title race
- Senior Ryan Talbot sits in fourth in the heptathlon going into day two, behind a win in the shot put
- Junior Valadian Pallett uses a PR weight throw of 20.85m to claim fifth, junior Elle Adrian is seventh
- Graduate Student Carlee Stimpfel and sophomore Riley Hough finish fifth and sixth respectively in the men's 5K
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