Sycamores take three of four titles at Gibson Invitational track meet

The three-day Gibson Invitational meet concluded Saturday at the Gibson Track and Field Complex, with Indiana State taking three of the four team titles — Men's Collegiate, Women's Collegiate and Women's Invitational.

Notre Dame finished atop the Men's Invitational team standings. Rose-Hulman also competed in this meet.

ISU's Aliseonna Garnett finished second in the Women's Collegiate hammer throw with a distance of 54.54 meters and second in the Women's Invitational shot put with a 15.42, while teammates Emma Yoder (61.35) and Cora Williams (58.81) finished second and third respectively in the Women's Invitational hammer throw.

In the Men's Collegiate hammer throw, the Sycamores' Theo Thurmond finished second with a 56.5.

In the Women's Collegiate 5,000m run, Robyn Schemel finished second with a time of 18 minutes, 28.94 seconds.

Rachel Mehringer took a first-place finish in the Women's Collegiate 100 hurdles with a time of 13.10.

"She has been training really well," ISU program director and head track coach Angie Martin said of Mehringer. "She has a really big goal to try and run under 13 and last year at this time of year we were averaging about 13.4, 13.5, now we're averaging like 13.1."

Martin said Mehringer has the coaching staff really excited. However, she said the hard part is with her running so well, it's hard to find competition for her.

Martin said they lined her up with the guys Friday because they run the 110 hurdles and that pretty much equates to what she's running for the 100 hurdles.

"The guys get excited because they want to race her," Martin told the Tribune-Star. "They don't want to get beat by her, but then she has people kind of challenge her."

Martin said she has teammates pushing her as well.

Martin said they had some people trying some new things this weekend.

The male hurdlers recorded first and second-place finishes with Kieran Barnewall posting a time of 14.02 and Parke Doyle recording 14.07.

In the 100-meter dash, Janiya Bowman took third in the Women's Collegiate category (11.72). Terrance O'Bannon finished third for the men with a time of 10.44. Halle Miller tagged a time of 4:38.38 in the 1,500 run for a second-place finish.

The men recorded a second-place finish in the 4x100 relay with a time of 40.12.

Hallie Mimbela finished first in the women's 800 with a time of 2:16.37.

Trent Jones took a first-place finish in the men's 400 with a time of 47.18.

David Carnell finished second in the men's 400 hurdles with a time of 53.66.

Bowman finished first in the Women's Collegiate 200 with a time of 23.63.

In the women's 4x400 relay, ISU finished third with a time of 4:04.53.

In the Women's Collegiate discus, Yoder finished first with a distance of 47.45.