COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. – Junior Isabel Wyatt and the St. Olaf College women's track and field team's distance medley relay posted first-place finishes, as the Oles concluded day two of the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) Indoor Track & Field Championships in third place on Friday at The Donald McNeely Spectrum.

Wyatt became St. Olaf's first MIAC indoor champion in the 800-meter run in 25 years, while junior Megan Timmerman, senior Emma Storbakken, sophomore Molly DiNardo, and senior Sophie Abernethy won the Oles' first DMR title since 2015-16. St. Olaf finished the day third in the 11-team standings with 55 points, two behind Concordia-Moorhead, three ahead of the College of Saint Benedict, and 3.5 ahead of Gustavus Adolphus College. Bethel University was 31 points clear of the field with 88 points.

Prior to Friday, St. Olaf's last conference champion in the 800-meter run was Megan (Daymont) Thomas '03 in 2000, but Wyatt changed that as the pre-meet favorite in the event. Wyatt, who entered the meet with the conference's top time of over six seconds, ran to a three-second win in 2:14.64 to become the first Ole to win an individual meet at the MIAC Indoor Championships since 2020. The title was the first individual conference championship of Wyatt's career.

In the final event of the night, Timmerman, Storbakken, DiNardo, and Abernethy edged Carleton College's quartet in the DMR by less than one second with a winning time of 12:30.19, which ranks seventh on St. Olaf's all-time list. Carleton was second in 12:31.06, but the remaining nine teams were all at least 15 seconds behind the Knights in what turned into a two-team race.

St. Olaf got a pair of 2-3 finishes on the track as well to add points to their team total. Senior Alison Bode and junior Lauren Walda took two of the three all-conference spots in the 5,000-meter run, with Bode in second (17:41.55) and Walda in third (18:02.85). Abernethy and senior Sofia Carlson matched that finish in the one-mile run with a pair of personal-best times, as Abernethy was second (5:09.48) and Carlson was third (5:10.54). This year marked Carlson's first time running the mile at the MIAC Indoor Championships.

Junior Ashlyn Jore jumped to honorable-mention honors in the long jump with a mark of 5.18 meters (17' 0") to take fourth for her second consecutive top-four finish in the event.

St. Olaf had four other performances land on its all-time top-10 list during the day. First year Erika Nesseth moved up to eighth in program history in the pole vault with an eighth-place clearance of 3.16 meters (10' 4 ¼"), while senior Emma Johnson also took hold of eighth in the weight throw with a 12th-place mark of 13.25 meters (43' 5 ¾").

First year Sophie Herweijer and senior Emma Storbakken shook up the Oles' list in the 60-meter dash, with Herweijer getting up to eighth (8.29) and Storbakken checking in in ninth (8.31) in the prelims.

The MIAC Indoor Track & Field Championships will conclude on Saturday, March 1 starting at noon.