IUTF Closes Productive Indiana Invitational

Saturday, January 17

Bloomington, Ind.

Indiana University

Indiana Invitational

1/17/2026 4:53:00 PM | Track and Field

Results (PDF)

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Indiana track and field opened the Indiana Invitational on Friday (January 17) inside Gladstein Fieldhouse with nine different event winners and several personal bests on first day of the event.

"I thought the women's (4x400m) team did a nice job of getting out and competing very hard leg for leg," said associate head coach Valerie Brown. "Being able to get the school record shows that we are definitely trying to put ourselves in a position for what's really important moving forward. We have a lot of options for the relays that we can play around with, but those four ladies we ran today did a nice job."

The men's heptathlon finished the final three events to start the day. Max Grangier (4,961) and Xavier Alston ($,626) each recorded career best point totals to finish second and third, respectively.

In the women's pentathlon, Chayla Rankin (3,694) and Elle Knepp (3,453) took first and second, respectively in the final totals.

Kelly Moran continued to improve her mark in the triple jump. Her mark of 12.73m/41-9.25 was a new personal best and earned her the event win.

The Hoosiers saw two high finishes in the men's high jump. Lee Martin (2.05m; PR) and Jay Hmurovich (2.00m) finished second and third, respectively.

Seth Brosseau closed the day in the field with a third place finish throwing a distance of 17.27m.

On the track, three Hoosiers finished in the top five of the women's mile. Lily Myers (4:42.61) took second, followed by Michaela Quinn (4:51.44; PR) and Catie McCabe (4:51.68; PR) in fourth and fifth, respectively.

Andrew Mangum became only the 14^th Hoosier to ever run a sub-4 mile. He finished first in the event with a time of 3:59.63, followed by personal best times from Abe Eckman (4:03.51) and Nico Colchico (4:06.06) who finished second and third, respectively.

Ava Olomajeye ran a career best in the women's 400-meter (55.45) to earn a second-place finish. Kaselle Davis also ran a season best time of 57.38, finishing seventh overall. In the men's race, Cameron Mullens highlighted the event with a new personal best time of 47.37. his time earned him a second place finish.

To finish the day, Indiana saw a new school record for the third consecutive meet. The quartet of Ryann Parrish, Ava Olomajeye, Amelia Dodds, and Kiera Davis ran a 3:38.37 relay to win the event and break the previous indoor school record by 0.20 second.

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