LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The Notre Dame Fighting Irish track and field team wraps up a successful weekend at the PNC Lenny Lyles Indoor Invitational. The Irish finished with 23 top ten finishes and claimed four event titles. Notre Dame also set four facility records in the women’s 800 meter and the men’s 3000 meter.
Alaina Brady kicks things off with a first place finish in the pentathlon 60 meter hurdles. She tallied a time of 8.70. Shae Douglas posted a 25.65 in the women’s 200 meter while Paul Baynes finished at 22.59 in the men’s race.
Three team members represented the Fighting Irish in the men’s 400m and the women’s 400 meter. Joey Dobrydney, Luke Phillips and Matt Cornelius represented the men’s team, and Eve Balseiro, Remy Finn, and Molly Bennet ran for the women’s team. Dobrydney crossed the finish line 49.22 followed by Phillips at 51.38, and Cornelius at 52.24. Balseiro led the women’s team with a time of 56.49, then came Finn at 59.06 and Bennet at 58.77.
The men’s and women’s 800 meter race was represented well by the Irish. The men’s team had four members run, Jackson Story, Nick Miller, Daelen Ackley, and Gabe Hinrichs. Story finished in eighth place with a time of 1:51.68, and Miller finished right behind him with a time of 1:51.81. Ackely and Hinirichs finished at 1:52.63 and 2:02.00, respectively. On the women’s side Kaitlin Ryan, set a facility record when she took second place in the race with a time of 2:06.59. The previous facility record was 2:08.30. Molly Grant and Reese Sanders also ran in the race taking eighth and eighteenth with times of 2:12.25 and 2:15.69.
Sophie Novak claimed the title in the women’s one mile run and John Schuler claimed first place for the men’s one mile run. Novak crossed the finish line at 4:47.76 and Schuler finished at 4:07.22. Paige Grant ran in the women’s race finishing at 4:55.28. CJ Singleton, Nick Miller, Nick Mota, Daelen Ackely, and Gabe Hinrichs all represented the Irish in the men’s race. Singleton claimed second place with a time of 4:08.66. Right behind Singleton was Miller who crossed the finish line at 4:10.47. Mota posted a time of 4:13.41, Ackley finished in 4:17.18, and Hinrichs finished with a time of 4:17.96.
The men’s 3000m saw three Irish break the facility record. The previous record was 8:09.46, and Ethan Coleman, Carter Cheeseman, and Kevin Berry all posted record breaking times. Colman finished in 7:58.67, Cheeseman posted a 7:59.84 and Berry crossed the finish line at 8:07.27. Jake Referee, Tom Seitzer, and Quinn Gallagher ran in the race as well with times of 8:18.63, 8:20.07, and 8:34.98, respectively.
Madison Schmidt, Jadin O’Brien, Arianna Martinez and Sarah Flight all competed in the women’s high jump. Schmidt posted a mark of 1.70 meters, O’Brien, Martinez, Flight all hit 1.65 meters. Alaina Brady competed in the pentathlon high jump where she also hit 1.65 meters and took third place.
O’Brien took fourth place in the women’s long jump where she posted a 6.11 meter mark. Brady took fourth in the pentathlon long jump hitting 5.49 meters. Olivia Fabry participated in the women’s pole vault where she hit a 3.58 meter mark.
Michael Shoaf claimed first place in the men’s shot put with a throw of 18.84 meters. Teammate Henry Boudreau made a toss of 15.89 meters. In the women’s shot put O’Brien, Emma Albano, and Schmidt hit marks of 13.79 meters, 13.49 meters, and 10.88 meters, respectively. Brady took third place in the pentathlon shot put competition where she hit 11.80 meters.
Shoaf dominated again in the men’s weight throw where he took second place with a throw of 19.78 meters. Blake Kusky and Matthew Teague also threw for marks of 17.67 meters and 15.99 meters, respectively.
The women’s 4×400 meter relay team closed out the meet with a time of 3:50.31. The team was made up of Reese Sanders, Remy Finn, Kaitlin Ryan and Eve Balseiro.