Feb. 17, 2017 Women's Track and Field.
PICTURED ABOVE: Favor Ezewuzie set a new school record in the women's 60-meter hurdles and she placed in the top three in three different events on Friday.
Naperville, Ill. - The Thunder track and field teams competed at North Central's "Cardinal Track & Field Classic" on Friday evening. The Wheaton women's team finished third in the six-team field.
Freshman Favor Ezewuzie finished in the top-three in three different events. Ezewuzie established a school-record in the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 9.18-seconds that put her in third place tonight. Her effort bested the previous school record of 9.23-seconds by Rosalie Dillon that was set in 2015. She placed second in the 60-meter dash in 7.928-seconds, just .003 behind the first place time of Lewis' Destiny Wesley (7.925). Marissa Heath placed fifth in the same event with a time of 8.05-meters. Ezewuzie recorded a jlump of 5.26-meters (17' 3-1/4") in the long jump to finish third. She was just a head of teammate Nicole Kitchen in fourth place with an effort of 5.18-meters (17').
Thomson (PICTURED LEFT) finished second in the 400-meter dash with a time of 1:00.22. Ellie Hawthorne placed second in the one-mile run with a time of 5:18.42.
Katie Lindquist finished second in the high jump with a leap of 1.62-meters (5' 3-3/4"). Evans recorded a leap of 10.76-meters (35' 3-3/4") in the triple jump to finish third in the event.
The Lewis University women's team finished first in the team standings with 236 points. North Central scored 118 points in second place, Wheaton finished third with 108 points, Benedictine placed fourth with 64 points, Harper College finished fifth with 15 points and College of DuPage finished sixth with two points.
Wheaton will return to action next Friday and Saturday at the 2017 CCIW Indoor Track & Field Championships at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Illinois.
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