FRIDAY RESULTS

YPSILANTI, Mich. – The opening chapter of the 2025 MAC Indoor Track & Field Championships for Bowling Green provided the spectacle of an instant classic, from beginning to end.

To start off the morning's finals at EMU's Bowen Field House, Trista Fintel took the conference title in the weight throw with a mark of 20.31m, which is a new PR. The graduate student transfer from Findlay became just the fourth weight thrower to take the MAC crown from BGSU and first since Kaila Butler in 2020.

It got even sweeter for the Falcons in the closing stanza.

The distance medley relay (DMR) squad of Reese Reaman, Reagan Campbell, Rachael Hoover and Kylee Cubbison also took the MAC championship in a time of 11:23.03, besting Toledo by 0.67 seconds and setting a new MAC Championships record for their fourth title in five years.

The two victories helped power the Falcons to end the first day in third place with 29 points, just nipping behind Miami (32) and Akron (30).

BGSU also boded well in the pentathlon, as Jenna Lucas (3640) placed fourth and Katherine Mendenhall (3481) took sixth. In the five events that make up the pentathlon (60m hurdles, high jump, shot put, long jump and 800m), Lucas's best was the shot put as she placed second with a toss of 13.34m. Mendenhall tied for first in the high jump (1.70m) for her best finish.

Six different athletes qualified for tomorrow's finals in five different events to set themselves up in a prime position.

Cubbison (4:53.18) placed third to qualify in the mile final, while fellow distancers Reaman (2:12.97) and Hoover (2:10.42) took third and fourth, respectively, in the 800m prelim to punch their tickets to tomorrow's final.

Kiersten Franklin qualified in both the 60m (7.49) and 200m (24.42) with third and fourth place finishes in the prelims, respectively.

DaMya Barker (8.65, fifth) and Morgan Patterson (8.71, seventh) will be competing in the 60m hurdles final as well.

Other notable performances included Grace Bradtmueller in the weight throw (11^th, 16.14m), Patterson in the long jump (eighth, 5.69m) as well as Rachael Withrow (12^th, 17:15.26 for a PR) and Regina Rose (14^th, 17:30.69) in the 5,000m.

Up Next
The Falcons will attempt to win their first MAC Indoor Championship since 1999 on Saturday, March 1. The first event begins at 10 a.m. with the shot put.

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