Whitewater, Wis./Winona, Minn. - The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse women's track & field team competed at two meets Friday night.  At the UW-Whitewater Invitational, the Eagles placed third with 121 points while no team scores were recorded at the Saint Mary's University (Minn.) Cardinal Open.

At UW-Whitewater, three athletes earned individual wins.  Bailey Alston won the triple jump (35-1 3/4) while Rebecca Schmidt took the 60-meter dash (7.84) and Claire Elliot won the 400-meter dash (58.25).  Schmidt set a facility record in winning the 60-meter dash.  She was also third in the 200-meter dash (26.63).

Other top finishes in the field events included Hannah Mueller second (17-4 1/4) and Erika Marisch fourth (16-9 3/4) in the long jump while Megan Marfilius placed second (5-2 1/4) and Amy Jo Garinger tied for fifth (5-0 1/4) in the high jump.

On the track, Caitlin Wippermann finished second (58.28) and Jenna Halvorson third (58.89) in the 400-meter dash while Rachel Schroeder placed second (10:35.06), Corissa Conard third (10:35.41) and Amanda Gresl fifth (10:42.50) in the 3,000-meter run.

Mueller was third in the 60-meter dash (7.89) and fifth in the 200-meter dash (26.68).

Rebecca Scheuermann finished third (2:20.88) and Kristin Lillie fifth (2:23.29) in the 800-meter run.

At Saint Mary's, Jamie Ludwigson won the 55-meter hurdles (8.78) while Erika Whitson took the pole vault (10-6) for UW-L.

Marissa Mahr was second (9.32), Alyssa Arentz third (9.37) and Kali Kramolis fourth (9.49) in the 55-meter hurdles while Mahr also finished fifth (27.89) in the 200-meter dash.

Megan Thiel placed third (7.63) in the 55-meter dash and fourth (27.60) in the 200-meter dash.  The Eagles' Annalie Falk-Pedersen finished fourth (1:01.95) and Sadie Johnson fifth (1:04.53) in the 400-meter dash.  Alexa Fritsch finished sixth (1:47.32) in the 600-meter run while Megan Stats was second (2:26.82), Macy Olson third (2:29.10) and Marissa Klimmek fourth (2:29.88) in the 800-meter run.  UW-L's Lisa Rydeen finished fifth in the mile run (5:48.31).

In the field events, Maddison Norlin and Leeanne Summer Tietz fied for third in the pole vault (10-0) while Jessica Landergott was fifth (9-6 1/4).

Arentz placed fourth in the long (15-7 1/2) and triple (31-10) jumps.

Bailey Sauerwein finished fifth in the shot put (40-11 3/4) while Nicole Flackey was sixth in the weight throw (51-0 1/4).

UW-L returns to action Friday, February 17 hosting Winona State University (Minn.) at 4:30 p.m.