Day One Meet Results

CEDER FALLS, Iowa – The Missouri State track and field team started off with a bang, day one of the 2019 Missouri Valley Conference Indoor Championship, the Bears sit in fifth place as a team with 23 points.

Senior Olivia Ott was the first Bear to step onto the conference meet podium, taking home third place in the indoor pentathlon, scoring a career best 3,477 points. The Neoga, Ill. native recorded PRs in the shot put (10.38m) and the 800-meter (2:28.49).

The Bears produced three of the top ten marks in the long jump. Jamilah James earned second place with a 5.92-meter jump, good enough for a season best. Sidne' Williamson checked in at fourth place with a 5.82-meter mark, while Ott posted 5.44m.

Missouri State qualified eight positions for the day two finals, led by Taryn Smiley. Smiley qualified both in the 60-meter (7.53) and the 200-meter (25.21). Chicago Bains ran the 60-meter hurdles in 8.70 to qualify in the event, while Namibia Clavier qualified in the 400-meter (58.03).

In the distance events Madeline Saville (2:15.98) and Edna Dar (2:14.48) qualified in the 800-meter, while Grace Breiten (5:04.86) and Erica Wollmering (5:07.55) achieved the mark in the mile run.

Capping off day one action, Breiten, Kayla Fallis, Dar and Paityn Howat blazed a 12:20.52 time fifth place distance medley relay.

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