COLUMBIA, Mo. – The Washington University in St. Louis women's track and field team hit the road for the second weekend in a row to compete with some of the top athletes in the region at a Div. I opponent on Saturday at the Bob Teel Invite hosted by Missouri.
No team scores were kept at this meet.
Top Results

• Long Jump
  • Senior Ebun Opata took home second place with a height of 5.62m
• Pole Vault
  • Senior Yasmin Ruff beat out all competitors from all divisions to take home the pole vault win with a height of 3.95m
• 60m Hurdles
  • In a stacked field, senior Lauren Gay finished eighth with a time of 9.16.
• 400m
  • With 44 competitors taking to the starting line, sophomore Julia Coric was the top Bear finisher in 12^th place with a time of 57.85.
• 60m
  • When rounding to the 100^th digit, there was a four-way tie for third place at 7.69.
  • To break the tie, they extended out to the 1,000^th place where junior Jasmine Wright would take fifth place with a time of 7.689.
• Triple Jump
  • Opata followed up her runner up finish from earlier in the meet by taking home the win in the triple jump with a leap of 12.54m, out distancing second place from Memphis' 11.80
• 800m
  • WashU had a pair of runners reach the top-10 in the event with senior Izzy Gorton finishing third with a time of 2:15.03.
  • Sophomore Caroline Echols would be the second Bear to finish with a time of 2:16.33, finishing seventh.
• Shot Put
  • Junior Jenae Bothe used her third throw of the event to secure a third place finish with a throw of 14.25.
• 200m
  • In the largest field (57) in an event on the day, Gay finished 15^th with a time of 25.34
  • Wright was the next Bear to finish with a time of 25.35, finishing 17^th.
  • Senior Nicole Stewart also finished in the top 20 with a time of 25.46.
• Mile
  • Junior Jillian Heth and senior Virginia Pridgen both finished in the top 10 in a field of 49.
  • Heth finished fifth with a time of 4:57.72 while Pridgen was seventh with a tie of 4:58.15.
• 4x400
  • First-year Hailey Weir, junior Kylie Spytek, sophomore Cate Christopher, and senior Izzy Gorton finished fifth in a 16-relay team field with a time of 3:50.15.

 
WashU will have less than a week before their next competition at the Friday Night Spikes #3 hosted by Rose-Hulman on Friday, Jan. 31. Events get underway at 6 p.m. in Terre Haute, Ind.