Tulsa Claims Two Titles and New Meet Record to Close American Indoor Championships

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Tulsa Claims Two Titles and New Meet Record to Close American Indoor Championships

2/25/2023 6:46:00 PM | Track and Field

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Women's Compiled Results (PDF)
Men's Compiled Results (PDF)

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The University of Tulsa track team had two champions to go with another meet record and eight all-conference performances Saturday to close out The American Indoor Track and Field Championships in Birmingham, Ala. The Golden Hurricane men finish fifth overall with 88 points while the women scored 59 points to finish in a fifth-place tie with SMU.

The TU women produced three all-conference performances on Saturday, including a 4x400-meter relay team (Jayda Gibson, Anna Mager, Lianne Holtermann and Elizabeth Roca) that earned a third-place finish. Juniors Layla Roebke and Chloe Hershenow finished second and third overall, respectively, in the women's 3,000-meter run, narrowly missing out on repeating their 1-2 feat from Friday's 5,000-meter run. Roebke finished as the third-highest scoring women's track athlete with 18 points.

Elizabeth Roca also picked up a new personal best in the women's 400-meter dash, finishing fourth overall.

"It was a solid showing for the women," said Head Track and Field Coach Steve Gulley. "We are walking out of here in a tie for fifth, and we had some girls step up today. Layla Roebke and Chloe Hershenow battled hard in the 3,000-meter run. Sara Scott also had a strong performance in the same race. The third-place showing by our 4x400-meter relay team was an awesome way to end the meet."

The Hurricane men capitalized on their strong performance on Friday and added two more champions on Saturday. Junior Christian Baker won the men's mile run in 4:05.67, making it the fourth career first place finish and first conference-winning performance for the Kirkwood, Mo. native.

Senior Micheal Power—the last leg of the men's distance medley relay team that was disqualified on Friday—had a stellar performance in the 3,000-meter run, putting up a 7:52.80 finish to set a new meet record.

Senior Scott Beattie added a fourth-place finish in Saturday's 3,000-meter run to end the meet as the third-highest scoring men's track athlete with 15 points.

"Even though we were missing some athletes this weekend due to injury, we maximized where we could and didn't leave any points out there," said Gulley. "Christian Baker put on a show, and Micheal Power showed massive character to bounce back tonight after the distance medley relay results last night. Josh Sutton had some great runs in the 60 and 200-meter dashes as well. We're not satisfied with a fifth-place team finish, but considering all that happened for us, we feel proud of how we performed."

Tulsa's next team action will be at the Stanford Invitational on March 31.

Full Women's Results --

400m
4. Elizabeth Roca 54.23*

Mile
4. Keely Jones 4:54.04
9. Chloe McEachern 4:58.89

3000m
2. Layla Roebke 9:34.38
3. Chloe Hershenow 9:37.49
5. Sara Scott 9:47.32
9. Robyn Kowalski 9:51.12
14. Tamara Reeves 9:55.17
17. Chloe McEachern 9:59.87
18. Jemima Antoniazzi 10:00.88
23. Alicen Ashley 10:06.13

5000m
1. Layla Roebke 16:20.02*
2. Chloe Hershenow 16.20.69*
8. Sara Scott 16:47.63*
9. Tamara Reeves 16:48.90*
10. Robyn Kowalski 16:53.55*
13. Jemima Antoniazzi 17:25.37*
16. Alicen Ashley 17:27.72*

Distance Medley Relay
3. Chloe McEachern, Lianne Holtermann, Sarah Hosey, Keely Jones 11:37.65

4x400m Relay
3. Jayda Gibson, Anna Mager, Lianne Holtermann, Elizabeth Roca 3:43.17

Full Men's Results --

60m
5. Josh Sutton 6.80

200m
6. Josh Sutton 21.40*

800m
2. Sean Korsmo 1:51.61*

Mile
1. Christian Baker 4:05.67
3. Chanel Muir 4:07.72
4. Shay McEvoy 4:08.40
5. Pete Johnson 4:08.63

3,000m
1. Micheal Power 7:52.80^
4. Scott Beattie 8:01.21
5. Shuiab Aljabaly 8:05.35
6. Shay McEvoy 8:05.70
7. Malte Propp 8:07.73
13. Ryan Shumaker 8:20.37
14. Max Nores 8:20.56

5000m
1. Scott Beattie 13:52.51^
3. Malte Propp 14:07.07*
7. Ryan Shumaker 14:15.29*
8. Max Nores 14:15.95*
10. Shuiab Aljabaly 14:27.54*

Distance Medley Relay
-- Christian Baker, Novo Onovwerosuoke, Pete Johnson, Micheal Power - disqualified

4x400m Relay
3. Novo Onovwerosuoke, Josh Sutton, Noah Reed, Evan Sanni-Thomas 3:15.67

Women's All-Conference
Jayda Gibson (4x400m relay)
Chloe Hershenow (3,000m, 5,000m)
Lianne Holtermann (DMR)
Sarah Hosey (DMR)
Keely Jones (DMR)
Anna Mager (4x400m relay)
Chloe McEachern (DMR)
Elizabeth Roca (4x400m relay)
Layla Roebke (3000m, 5,000m)
Elizabeth Roca (4x400m relay)

Men All-Conference
Christian Baker (Mile)
Scott Beattie (5,000m)
Sean Korsmo (800m)
Chanel Muir (Mile)
Micheal Power (3,000m)
Malte Propp (5,000m)
Novo Onovwerosuoke (4x400m relay)
Noah Reed (4x400m relay)
Evan Sanni-Thomas (4x400m relay)
Josh Sutton (4x400m relay)

*Personal best
^Meet record