Northern Arizona sweeps Big Sky Indoor Track and Field Championship

For the 11th and third straight time respectively, the Northern Arizona men and women’s indoor track and field teams swept the Big Sky Indoor Track and Field Championship. The men scored 182.5 points while the women scored 200.5, the most in Big Sky history. The Idaho men came in second while the women came in third. The Idaho women were sitting two points behind Sacramento State before a 15.75-meter throw from freshman Mia Sylvester bumped them up onto the podium. The Montana State men rounded out the top three in third while the women took second. 

It was a wild two days of individual competitions with multiple broken championship records. Drew Bosley of NAU, Nico Young of NAU and Ben Perrin of MSU all broke the men’s 5000m record with times of 13:39.87, 13:43.7 and 13:53.03 respectively.  

Billie Hatch of Weber State broke her own women’s 5000m record, which she set last season, with a time of 16:27.99.  

The NAU women ended Friday by breaking the women’s 4000m medley with a time of 11:31.98, which is just over two seconds less than the record set by NAU in 2018. 

Saturday started out hot as Duncan Hamilton of MSU, Levi Taylor of MSU and Theo Quax of NAU broke the men’s mile record with times of 4:01.88, 4:03.29 and 4:03.88 respectively. 

Shortly after, Jerome Campbell of Northern Colorado broke the men’s 60m hurdles record with a time of 7.65 seconds. When the hurdles weren’t on the track, Alyssa Colbert of NAU broke the record with a run of 7.32 seconds.  

The longest standing women’s record broken at the championship was Weber State’s Stephanie Hansen’s women’s 800m record of 2:07.05, which she set in 2001. Maggi Congdon of NAU ran right through that record with a time of 2:05.71. David Dunlap of NAU broke the longest standing men’s record. His time of 20.54 seconds in the men’s 200m was enough to beat Northern Arizona’s Anthony Wilson’s record of 20.88 seconds set in 1992.  

Another NAU runner, Annika Reiss, also broke a record set by a former NAU athlete. She beat Ida Nilsson’s 3000m time of 9:20.61, which was set in 2004, with a time of 9:17.87. 

James Taurman-Aldrich can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter @jamesaldrich25.