Milwaukee City Wire

The Milwaukee Track & Field team is set to participate in the Mastodon Invitational at Purdue Fort Wayne. The event will take place at Lutheran Health Fieldhouse in Fort Wayne, Indiana, with multi-event athletes competing on Friday and Saturday.

Athletes will compete in the pentathlon and heptathlon starting Friday afternoon. The heptathlon events will continue into Saturday morning.

Anna Szepieniec, who was last year's league runner-up, is among the women competing in the decathlon. Szepieniec recently placed second in the 60m hurdles with a time of 8.73 and fourth in the long jump with a distance of 5.65 meters on January 11. On December 13, she recorded the sixth-best 60m hurdles time in school history at 8.66, earning her Horizon League Track Athlete of the Week on December 16.

Liam Richards returns to compete in the heptathlon for the first time since winning it at the 2024 Horizon League Championships. Richards began his season strong on January 11 by placing fourth in the 60m hurdles with a time of 8.36 and securing second place in the long jump with a distance of 6.36 meters.

Following this weekend's competition, Milwaukee Panthers will host their next event, the Tierney Classic, at Klotsche Center on Saturday, January 25 at 10:00 a.m.