WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (Blugolds.com) – Sprinter Carly Fehler (Sr.-Oak Creek, WI) won national championships in the 60 and 200-meter dashes as the UW-Eau Claire women's track and field team finished tied for fourth place at the NCAA Division III Indoor Track and Field Championships hosted by Roanoke College here today at JDL Fast Track.
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The Blugolds scored 34 points along with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) falling five points shy of tying Illinois Wesleyan for third place with 39 points. UW-La Crosse won the team championship with 55 points followed by UW-Oshkosh with 49 points.
Today's performance tied the second-highest team finish in school history. The Blugolds placed third in 2007 and finished fourth in 1985 when they school competed at the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA).
Fehler won the 60-meter dash posting a new school record of 7.58 seconds breaking her record of 7.60 seconds set yesterday in preliminary action. In the 200-meter dash Fehler won her second national championship of the day finishing in a school record of 24.64 seconds. Fehler becomes the first Blugold women's indoor competitor to ever win two national titles in the same weekend. Only four other Blugold women have ever been named indoor national champions: Steph Barnes (pole vault, 2006), Arlene Meinholz (high jump, 1996), Kelly Bowe (shot put, 1989) and Katie Somer (one-mile run, 1985 as a member of the NAIA).
Lucy Ramquist (Sr.-River Falls, WI) earned All-America status finishing third in the 3,000-meter run with a new school record time of 9:49.63. Ramquist held the previous school record of 9:50.68 set at the WIAC Indoor Track and Field Championships on February 28, 2015 at UW-Platteville.
Sarah Glidden (So.-Greenville, WI/Hortonville) finished 12th in the high jump clearing 5-5 (1.65 meters).
The 4 x 400-meter relay team of Brooke Patterson (Sr.-Sussex, WI/Sussex-Hamilton), Steph Rouse (Sr.-Minnetonka, MN/Hopkins), Jessica Rupnow (Jr.-Sussex, WI/Sussex-Hamilton) and Jessie Reineck (So.-Greenville, WI/Fox Valley Lutheran) were five one-hundredths of a second shy of becoming national champions finishing second in a time of 3:49.94. UW-La Crosse won the event with a time of 3:49.89. The time set yet another new school record.
Along with earning its second-highest team finish in school history, six school records were broken during the 2015 season including four this past weekend.
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