By FHSU SPORTS INFORMATION
MARYVILLE, Mo. – The Fort Hays State women’s track and field team had one individual champion, broke two school records and totaled two All-MIAA medals Sunday (Feb. 27) on the final day of the 2022 MIAA Indoor Championships. The Tigers had five provisional marks on the day, finishing the week with four All-MIAA honors, eight provisional performances and two school records. FHSU place fifth as a team with 65 team points, the top finish at the indoor league meet and the top point total for the Tigers since FHSU joined the MIAA in 2006-07.
Lyric Holman won the MIAA title in the 60m dash for the second year in a row, leading the field with a time of 7.47. It was her third first-place finish at a league meet in her career along with one outdoor 100m dash title. The junior sprinter later earned her seventh All-MIAA accolade after breaking her school record and finishing second in the 200m dash with a time of 24.32.
At the end of the day Holman teamed up with Kendra Clary, Taylor Savolt and Mattie Rossi to break the school record in the 4x400m relay with a time of 3:48.58. The team placed fifth in the race after shaving close to three seconds off the top mark in school history.
Savolt and Rossi also competed in other events on Sunday, with Savolt finishing fourth in the triple jump with a top leap of 39-0.5. Rossi placed seventh in the 60m hurdles with a time of 8.68. The Tigers also got one team point from the mile run, where Gretchen Kuffel placed eighth with a time of 5:02.15, the second-fastest time on the FHSU DII era performance chart.
The Tigers will now await the release of the selected entries for the NCAA DII Indoor Championships, scheduled to be released on NCAA.com on Tuesday afternoon (March 1). The championships are scheduled for March 11-12 and are being held this year in Pittsburg, Kan.
Full FHSU Results – Day Three
60m Dash Finals
1st – Lyric Holman – 7.47 – 10 team points @ #
60m Hurdles Finals
7th – Mattie Rossi – 8.68 – 2 team points #
200m Dash Finals
2nd – Lyric Holman – 24.32 – 8 team points ! @ #
Mile Run
8th – Gretchen Kuffel – 5:02.15 – 1 team point
15th – Jaycee Vath – 5:16.15
25th – Carson Pierce – 5:27.36
27th – Halle Johnson – 5:33.22
3,000m Run
10th – Abigail Stewart – 10:13.59
23rd – Brooke Navarro – 10:48.62
4x400m Relay
5th – Lyric Holman, Kendra Clary, Taylor Savolt, Mattie Rossi – 3:48.58 – 4 team points ! #
Triple Jump
4th – Taylor Savolt – 39-00.50 – 5 team points #
Day Two Results
60m Dash Prelims
1st – Lyric Holman – 7.48Q #
14th – Kendra Clary – 7.81
17th – Tori Poe – 7.86
60m Hurdles Prelims
8th – Mattie Rossi – 8.66q #
13th – Chloe Stanley – 8.98
200m Dash Prelims
2nd – Lyric Holman – 24.56q #
19th – Tori Poe – 25.87
22nd – Kinley Brown – 26.17
600y Run Prelims
20th – Chloe Stanley – 1:33.52
800m Run Prelims
11th – Hannah Wiebe – 2:18.03
16th – Faith Little – 2:26.68
5,000m Run
5th – Abigail Stewart – 17:43.82 – 4 team points
19th – Brooke Navarro – 18:53.40
Distance Medley Relay
5th – Halle Johnson, Kendra Clary, Hannah Wiebe, Gretchen Kuffel – 12:14.08 – 4 team points
High Jump
2nd – Alexandra Hart – 5-7 – 8 team points # @
5th – Summer Kragel – 5-4.50 – 4 team points
8th – Mattie Rossi – 5-4.50 – 1 team point
Pole Vault
Taylor Linn – NH
Maleigha Schmidt – NH
Long Jump
3rd – Taylor Savolt – 18-6.5 – 6 team points @
18th – Hadley Williams – 16-5.25
22nd – Elysia Kunkler – 15-6.75
Day One Results
Pentathlon
4th – Mattie Rossi – 3,660 points – 5 team points #
60mH – 8.72 – 969 #
HJ – 5-2.25 – 712
SP – 31-4 – 500
LJ – 17-9.5 – 677
800m – 2:21.56 – 802
6th – Taylor Savolt – 3,457 points – 3 team points #
60mH – 9.11 – 887
HJ – 4-9.5 – 577
SP – 31-6.5 – 504
LJ – 18-1.75 – 709
800m – 2:23.22 – 780
13th – Ellie Dusselier – 2,809 points
60mH – 10.52 – 618
HJ – 4-11.75 – 644
SP – 28-7 – 445
LJ – 15-6.25 – 487
800m – 2:36.39 – 615
14th – Hadley Williams – 2,750 points
60mH – 9.96 – 720
HJ – 4-7 – 512
SP – 29-7.5 – 466
LJ – 15-9.75 – 511
800m – 2:42.86 – 541
Bold indicates MIAA Champion
@ indicates All-MIAA honors
! indicates school record
# indicates NCAA DII provisional mark