Milwaukee’s track and field teams participated in the first day of Notre Dame’s Meyo Invite in South Bend, Indiana. Evan Bartelsen excelled in the pole vault, achieving a height of 4.96 meters, placing him third on Milwaukee’s all-time leaderboard and securing second place for the day.
In the long jump, freshman Anthony Buford recorded his best jump at 7.15 meters, marking the seventh-best performance in school history. On the women’s side, Anna Szepieniec reached 5.69 meters to earn a third-place finish.
Caden Thomas continued his successful season by winning the high jump with a clearance of 1.96 meters. In track events, Dominique Thomas finished second in the 200-meter dash with a time of 24.59 seconds.
Isabel Roloff advanced from the qualifying round in the 60-meter dash with a time of 7.77 seconds and will join Thomas in tomorrow’s preliminaries at 11:00 a.m.
The Panthers’ schedule for tomorrow includes starting at 9:40 a.m. with the 800-meter run and commencing field events with the women’s pole vault at noon. Afternoon track events will be available for viewing on ACC Network Extra beginning at 1:00 p.m.
