Clute Wins a Big Ten Championship

Friday, February 26

Geneva, Ohio

TBA

Indiana University

Big Ten Indoor Championships

2/26/2016 7:49:00 PM | Track and Field

Clute Wins a Big Ten Championship

Sydney Clute won the 2016 Big Ten Championship in the pole vault with a school record mark of 4.35m (14-3.25ft). Clute joins Kelsie Ahbe (Indoor in 2014) and Vera Neuenswander (Outdoor in 2007 and 2011) as the only women vaulters in school history to win a conference championship.

Head Coach Ron Helmer said that Sydney was the highlight of the day. "She competed like a champion and deserved to be a champion. We need to have more people follow her lead tomorrow."

Indiana had two point scorers in the 3,000m run. Jason Crist took third with a time of 8:04.78. Matt Schwartzer took eighth with a time of 8:07.74.

The women's DMR team of Brenna Calder, Riley Egbula, Kelsey Harris, and Brianna Johnson finished fourth to score points for the Hoosiers.

In his first Big Ten Championships Treyton Harris tied for seventh in the long jump with a mark of 7.26m (23-10ft). Willie Morrison also finished seventh in his Big Ten Championships debut in the shot put with a mark of 17.93m (58-10ft). Terry Batemon took sixth in the pole vault with a mark of 5.08m (16-8ft).

The Hoosiers had a great showing in the mile run trials. In total, five student-athletes qualified for the finals. Brenna Calder and Brianna Johnson qualified for the women's final. Calder won the first heat with a time of 4:44.48. Johnson made the cut based on her career best mark of 4:44.85. That time is also the eighth best time in school history. Rorey Hunter, Owen Skeete, and Kyle Duvall all will race in the finals of the men's mile tomorrow.

Daniel Kuhn ran the fastest time of the 600m trials. His time of 1:16.42 also breaks his own school record in the event. Kendell Wiles punched her ticket to the 600m trials with a season best time of 1:30.22, which moves her into fourth on the all-time performance list.

After four events in the Heptathlon Dylan Anderson is in third place with a score of 3,168 points. Stephen Keller is in seventh with 2,972 points, Chase Pacheco is 12^th with 2,854 points, and Andrew Huber is 16^th with 2,810 points. Three events remain on day two: the 60m hurdles, pole vault, and the 1,000m run.

Action will start back up tomorrow morning at 10:00AM with the Heptathlon 60m hurdles.