ST. PAUL, Minn. – It was a great midweek meet for the Bemidji State University Women's Track and Field team as they collected 11 top-five results at the St. Thomas Twilight on Wednesday in St. Paul, Minn.
Tierra Doss won the shot put, saving her best throw for last reaching 46-5.25 for a new PR and improved provisional. Zayda Priebe came in ninth with a throw of 35-0.25. Alyssa Hill placed right behind Priebe in 10th hitting a distance of 34-11. Cassidy Schmidt came in 20th with a throw of 31-1.25.
Doss came in second in the discus with a throw of 139-3. Priebe came in fourth hitting a mark of 124-2. Hill came in seventh with a throw of 118-0. Schmidt hit a distance of 103-0 to come in 12th. Alexis Gehrig rounded out the group coming in 15th with a throw of 95-7.
It was a new season-best for the 4x100 relay team of Olivia Olson, Abbie Disbrow, Natalie Fultz and Abby Syverson coming in second with a time of 49.42.
Fultz, Syverson, Johnson and Aitken competed in the 4x400 relay posting a new season-best time of 3:59.82 to come in second.
Carol Miller hit a new personal-best time of 5:00.05 in the 1,500-meter to come in 25th.
Fultz hit a new PR time coming in third in the 400-meter hurdles coming in at 1:04.20. Johnson added a new PR time as well coming in fourth with a time of 1:08.96.
Fultz added another top-three result in the high jump clearing 5-1 to come in third.
Syverson led three Beavers in the 400-meter coming in with a new PR time of 59.64 to place fifth. Aitken also posted a new PR with a time of 1:00.31 to come in 10th. Running the 400 for the first time this outdoor season, Lexi Erickson came in 12th with a time of 1:00.69.
Olson led the Beavers in the 100-meter with a new personal-best time of 12.77 to come in 10th. Amanda Smith placed 33rd with a time of 14.25.
Anastasia Klein and Olson both competed in the pole vault. Klein came in fifth clearing 10-8.25. Olson came in sixth clearing 10-2.5.
Gehrig and Mikenna Pattrin placed seventh and eighth, respectively in the hammer. Gehrig reached a new PR distance with a throw of 136-2 and Pattrin hit 135-1.
Pattrin led three Beavers in the javelin placing fifth with a new PR distance of 113-3. Smith added a new PR distance of 98-2 to come in sixth. Johnson added to the group of hitting PR marks with a new distance of 93-0 to place eighth.
Bemidji State continues the week traveling to Fargo, N.D., on Friday to compete in the NDSU Tune Up starting at 12 p.m.
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Located on the shore of Lake Bemidji, Bemidji State University sponsors 15 varsity athletic programs with NCAA Division I men's hockey membership in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association and women's hockey membership in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association, while its 13 NCAA Division II programs hold membership in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC).
