Women’s Indoor Opens Season at Indiana Tech Invite

FORT WAYNE, Ind. – Taylor opened its indoor track and field schedule on Friday at the Indiana Tech Invite. The Trojans excelled on the women's side, notching individual wins in three events, despite sending a limited number of athletes to the meet.

TU's best showing came in the mile, where it scored first, second and fifth-place finishes with Sam Patterson leading Catey Campbell across the line with times of 5:22.85 and 5:23.43 and Sarah McKowen following in fifth.

Jaynie Halterman secured the best individual showing of the night for the Purple and Gray, posting a winning time of 9:44.88 in the 3,000-meters to hit the NAIA A-standard. Malarie Pinwar, Noel Bass and Marlina Howell finished behind Halterman in third, fourth and fifth.

D'Arjha Davis took home Taylor's third win of the day, leading the pack in the 200-meters with a time of 26.47.

Kiana Siefert finished top-five in the 60-meter hurdles and long jump, ending second with a leap of 5.51 meters in the long jump and taking fifth with a time of 9.11 in the hurdles.

Other top performances for Taylor came in the 400-meters with Nicole Braz Domene claiming third, in the 600-meters with Taylor Post and Annabel Parker ending fourth and sixth, and in the 60-meters with Davis taking sixth.

Taylor will return to the track on Saturday, January 24, when it hosts the George Glass Invitational starting at 9:30 am.