Track & Field Completes Final Day at Drake Relays Saturday

DES MOINES, Iowa – Marquette University track & field competed at the Drake Relays this weekend at Drake Stadium’s Blue Oval.

“It was a bit of an up and down weekend,” Bert Rogers said. “We had a few big performances and a few that didn’t go like we planned, but we will learn from those and improve. Drake is a terrific big meet experience and we love the challenge of competing against the best.”

Riley Ward and Tessa Hollander had the second-best and third-best throws in program history in the javelin on the final day of competition Saturday. Ward had a 41.33-meter throw while Hollander had a mark of 41.24 meters to finished second and fifth, respectively.

The team of Makena Coltoff, Julia Beck, Olivia Verden and Hannah McVey set a new program record 1:02.52 race in the shuttle hurdle relay on Saturday.

The team of Justin Juniel, Niels De Brouckere, Frankie McGee and Aaron Hughes finished fifth in the finals of the 4×100 relay at 42.14 seconds.

McGee, De Brouckere, Hughes and K.T. Thomas ran the 10th fastest time in program history in the 4×200 at 1:28.99 on Friday night.

Emma Coon finished eighth in the 5000-meter at 17:11.27 for a new PR by over one a minute on Thursday night.

Cole Donahe finished the decathlon with 6,101 points, good for the ninth-best performance in program history.

UP NEXT: Marquette travels to Madison for the Badger Invite on Friday, May 2.

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