Friday, February 23
Geneva, Ohio
Michigan State University
at
Big Ten Indoor Championships
Track and Field Wraps up Big Ten Indoor Championships with Program Record, Solid Performances
2/24/2024 7:36:00 PM | Track and Field
GENEVA, Ohio – Michigan State Men's and Women's Track and Field teams both placed 11th at the Big Ten Indoor Championships that took place between the Friday and Saturday, Feb. 23-24, while several student-athletes posted big performances.
"We had a lot of positive performances, a lot of steps in the right direction," Director of Cross Country and Track & Field Lisa Breznau said. "We're constantly building and looking for growth so on day one and day two there was a lot of things that signaled we were in a positive space but we still have plenty of room to get better."
The men finished with 21 points and the women with 31 points. Winning the conference championships were Wisconsin on the men's side and Illinois out of the women's field.
After a solid all-around day out of the Spartans on day one of the meet at the SPIRE Academy Friday, multiple Spartans followed up on their preliminary performances by landing on the podium in their respective finals Saturday.
Highlighting the day was graduate student Heath Baldwin who rebroke his own day-old school record in the 60-meter hurdles, setting a new best mark at 7.81 seconds. The Kalamazoo, Mich. native and NCAA Championships probable heptathlete accounted for five of the Spartans points, also scoring in the high jump.
On Friday, the women's DMR team avenged their second-place finish at last season's championships with MSU's lone title 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 and earned First Team All-Big Ten.
Scoring Breakdown
Men
Women
Next, select Spartans will take on national competition at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships in Boston, Mass. from Friday to Saturday, Feb. 23-24. Baldwin is likely to be among the field of 16 in the heptathlon while senior Ryan Talbot (11th at Big Tens this weekend) hopes to join him. Freeland will also be on the bubble for the women's mile competition.
"We had a lot of positive performances, a lot of steps in the right direction," Director of Cross Country and Track & Field Lisa Breznau said. "We're constantly building and looking for growth so on day one and day two there was a lot of things that signaled we were in a positive space but we still have plenty of room to get better."
The men finished with 21 points and the women with 31 points. Winning the conference championships were Wisconsin on the men's side and Illinois out of the women's field.
After a solid all-around day out of the Spartans on day one of the meet at the SPIRE Academy Friday, multiple Spartans followed up on their preliminary performances by landing on the podium in their respective finals Saturday.
Highlighting the day was graduate student Heath Baldwin who rebroke his own day-old school record in the 60-meter hurdles, setting a new best mark at 7.81 seconds. The Kalamazoo, Mich. native and NCAA Championships probable heptathlete accounted for five of the Spartans points, also scoring in the high jump.
On Friday, the women's DMR team avenged their second-place finish at last season's championships with MSU's lone title 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 and earned First Team All-Big Ten.
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— MSU Track & Field/XC (@MSU_TFXC) February 24, 2024
Scoring Breakdown
Men
- Graduate student CarLee Stimpfel and sophomore Riley Hough finished 5th and 6th respectively in the men's 5K (Friday, 7 points)
- The men's distance medley relay team of senior Andrew Nolan, junior Tee Muex, sophomore Timothy Cherry and senior Owen Huard finished 5th in 9:46.39 (Friday, 4 points)
- Nolan's PR of 8:02.39 in the 3K was just fast enough to land him on the podium in 8th (Saturday, 1 point)
- After breaking a six-year-old school record in the 60m hurdles qualifiers at 7.86, Baldwin reset the bar with a time of 7.81 to earn 7th in the finals (Saturday, 2 points)
- No more than an hour after breaking a school record, Baldwin cleared five consecutive bars to place 6th in the high jump at 2.12m (Saturday, 3 points)
Women
- The women's DMR team of junior Kate Stewart-Barnett, senior Shae Harbaugh, senior Abbey Carvey and graduate student Lauren Freeland were Big Ten champions with a time of 11:12.91 (Friday, 10 points)
- Sophomore Natalie Blake cleared her sixth Pole Vault PR of the season by almost 8 inches at 4.25m, finishing 5th overall (Friday, 4 points)
- Junior Valadian Pallett used a PR weight throw of 20.85m to claim 5th, while junior Elle Adrian finished 7th (Friday, 6 points)
- Harbaugh finished 7th in the 600m finals with a pacey time of 1:31.43 (Saturday, 2 points)
- After finishing one and two in the qualifiers, Stewart-Barnett logged a huge personal best and first sub-2:40 time in the mile at 4:37.53 to finish 4th and Freeland was right behind her in 5th (Saturday, 9 points)
Next, select Spartans will take on national competition at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships in Boston, Mass. from Friday to Saturday, Feb. 23-24. Baldwin is likely to be among the field of 16 in the heptathlon while senior Ryan Talbot (11th at Big Tens this weekend) hopes to join him. Freeland will also be on the bubble for the women's mile competition.
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