Lamoni, Iowa - For the second straight weekend, the Central Methodist men's and women's indoor track and field programs traveled to Lamoni, Iowa to compete in the second edition of the Graceland Indoor Winter Series on Friday. 

Several Eagles on both the men's and women's side earned top finishes and set new personal bests. On the women's side, the trio of Kailey Johnson, Jada Gaines, and Antoinette Flowers swept the 55m dash, as Johnson won the event with a time of 7.40 seconds. Johnson also took home first place in the 55m hurdles in 8.87 seconds. 

Freshman sprinter Abbie Hale won the 400m dash in a time of 1:03.30 as did Madeline Weiseman in the 800m run in a final time of 2:30.92.

Katherine Bangert claimed a Top-2 finish in the 1000m run in 3:27.15, while senior distance run Lisa Sauter finished in second place in the 3000m run in 11:15.62. 

The 4x400 relay team of Johnson, Mason Fitzgerald, Weiseman, and Hale won the event in 4:15.77. Sophomore Katelyn Weber and freshman Sarah Johnson placed first and third in the long jump with final marks of 5.17 and 4.83 meters.

Freshman Karli Wolfe earned a second-place finish in the shot put with a new personal best of 10.83 meters. 

On the men's side, freshman sprinter Brennan Moots placed second in the 55m hurdles in 8.28 seconds, just four-tenths off a first-place finish. Nehemiah Colyer took home the top spot in the 400m dash while fellow teammate Brock Jackson placed third. 

In the 600m run Jack Schiffhauer placed third in a time of 1:28.97 and Kaleb Bramman earned the top spot in the 800m run with a time of 2:13.86. 

Shawn Kiptoo competed in his first-ever collegiate race in the 3000m run, where he placed second in a time of 9:21.54. The 4x400m relay team of Hayden Hackman, Curtis Johns, Brock Jackson, and Colyer won the even in 3:32.87. 

Moving into the men's field events, senior Jacob Fritz won the jump-off in the high jump with a final mark of 1.91 meters and Abdulai Rashid and Joseph Slattery placed second and third in the long jump respectively. 

Parker Yager, Robert Jerrick, and Hayden Hackman swept the pole vault, as Yager took home the top spot with a final jump of 4.20 meters. 

Taylor Bottomley once again broke his own school record in the shot put with a throw of 16.82 meters, good enough for a first-place finish and more than three meters longer than the next longest toss. He also won the weight throw with a final toss of 18.14 meters. 

Both programs will compete in the Herschel Neil Invite hosted by Northwest Missouri State University Saturday, Jan. 30 in Maryville, Mo. 

To view the complete list of results, please click here. 

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