Mankato, Minnesota -- The 4x400 meter relay team of Melanie Hall, I'Reiona Lightsey, Kylar Brown and Jocelynn Crowell demolished the school record while winning the event to highlight the Indian Hills performance at the Mark Schuck Multi & Open over the weekend. The 4x4 team's time of 4:00.97 easily bettered the previous school mark of 4:05.50 and was the unit's best time for the indoor season by nearly seven seconds. Their time converts to 3:57.77, ranking them 7th in the NJCAA.
That was the lone school record for IHCC in the meet, but there were six top-five all-time program bests.
Crowell (25.91-5th), Brown (26.25-12th), Destiny Lottie (26.54-13th) and Dasauna Combs (26.87-15th) all ran their season-best in the 200 meters. The quartet currently ranks 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 6th, respectively, in program history.
Ceyda Nazli took 2nd in the 500 meters in 1:23.85.
Halley Wilmes finished just two seconds off the national qualifying time in the 1000 meter run in her first attempt in the event. She finished 6th in 3:14.79 for the second-fastest time in school history.
Hall was 8th in the 60 meter dash final, running a personal best of 7.98, the 5th fastest clocking all-time at Indian Hills.
Haley Revell had a throw of 36'0.25" to place 25th in the shot put.
Lottie also ran in the 400 meters and her time of 1:03.73 was good for 8th place.
Indian Hills coach Brent Ewing praised the effort of all his athletes who competed saying, "For weeks, we've been talking about qualifying that 4x4 team. They have a lot of energy, and we just needed to bring that energy and aggressiveness to the competition. I'm really happy with the depth we have on the women's squad, something our program has never had before. So many of our women are freshmen, which makes it even more exciting. The energy that our entire team had during the 4x400 relay was palpable. That building was rocking. I will never forget that race. To see the entire squad celebrate after the relay pulled away in the last few meters to win really speaks to the sense of family that our program has."
The final regular-season meet for Indian Hills for the indoor season will be the Bearcat Open at Northwest Missouri State in Maryville, Mo. Feb. 7-8.