WHITEWATER, Wis. – As teams begin their final tuneups for conference championships, the No. 2 Washington University in St. Louis women's track and field team competed at the Midwest Elite Invite on Saturday, hosted by Wis.-Whitewater.

No team scores were recorded.

Top Finishes

• 5000m
  • In a field of 100 competitors, first-year Charlie Houck finished the event in 13th place with a time of 14:34.92
  • Junior Will Liu (14:52.83) and senior Conor Daly (14:53.54) went back-to-back in 22^nd and 23^rd places, respectively
• Weight Throw
  • Sophomore Ian Murphy finished in 17^th place with a throw of 13.65m
• Triple Jump
  • Junior Jared Dawkins finish in ninth place with a leap of 12.84m
• High Jump
  • Senior Eli Goldman finished in sixth place with a clear of 1.92m
• Pole Vault
  • Senior George Bourdier finished runner-up with a clear of 5.10m
  • Right behind him was classmate Hayden Kunkel with a height of 4.95m
  • Junior Peter Lichtenberger was fourth with a clear of 4.90m
  • Graduate Tommaso Maiocco and sophomore Zachary Duckworth finished in eighth and ninth places, respectively, with their clears of 4.75m
• Mile
  • First-year Ulysses Klebeck took home fifth place with a time of 4:20.25
  • Sophomores Caleb Brox and Ben Lorenz finished in seventh and eighth place, respectively, with their time of 4:20.87 and 4:22.15
• 400m
  • Senior Dayton Lasack finished in 10^th place with his time of 51.00
• 60m Hurdles
  • First-year William Kamp finished in fourth place with a time of 8.56m
• 800m
  • WashU claimed four of the top eight places, led by junior William Frohling's runner-up finish in 1:55.30
  • First-year William Newkirk (1:56.66), senior Brandon Brazil (1:56.92), and first-year Cameron Bettinger (1:56.92) finished sixth through eighth places, respectively
• 200m
  • First-year Logan Fairchild had a top five finish with a time of 22.53
• 4x400m
  • The team of Brazil, senior James Corbett, Fairchild, and Frohling came in second with their time of 3:19.31

WashU will next compete at the IC Hilltop Classic hosted by Illinois College on Friday, Feb. 20 in Jacksonville, Ill. in the final tune-up for the 2026 UAA Indoor Championships.
 
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