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OU school track records fall in Bethel meet

By The Herald Staff

NORTH NEWTON — Two Ottawa University track and field school records fell at the Bethel Invitational Saturday in North Newton.

Ottawa senior Kaity Keiswetter broke the school record and set a personal best in the triple jump with a leap of 34 feet, 8.25 inches and finished second in the event. The old record was 34-06.25 set by Eboni Fondren in 1999.

Ottawa senior Justin Garrard broke the school record in the 3000-meter steeplechase with a time of 9 minutes, 47.07 seconds, which gave him a second place finish in the event. He topped the old record of 9:50.48 owned by John Inglehart. Garrard now owns five outdoor school records and one indoor school record.

He also won the 5,000 race.

“Kaity keeps improving each week. She is a dedicated sutdent-athlete and represents Ottawa University academically and athlethically with high standards,” Ottawa coach Kirk Wren said.

Garrard’s records range from 3,000 to the marathon.

“It is an amazing accomplishment,” Wren said. “Justin has exceeded all the expectations.

Freshman Kylie Covey finished second in the 100 and 100 races. Sophomore Maggie Hasenkamp finished second in the javelin with her best performance of the season. Wren said Hasenkamp is peaking at the right time.

Freshman Max Brown had a personal-best toss in the shot put and ranks third in the conference.

The Ottawa track teams compete Friday and Saturday in the conference meet in McPherson.

Here are all of the Ottawa results:

Women

100 — 2, Covey, 12.71.

200 — 2, Covey, 26.43; 7, Carter, 27.82.

1,500 — 7, Rodriguez, 5:30.76 (PR).

400 relay — 5, Ottawa, 54.06.

Triple jump — 2, Keiswetter, 34-8.25 (school record).

Javelin — 2, Hasenkamp, 119-3.

Men

200 — 7, Jones, 23.4.

800 — 2, Kueffer, 2:00.91.

1,500 — 5, Garcia, 4:21.91 (PR).

5,000 — 1, Garrard, 16:05; 4, McMillian, 16:56; 7, Smith, 17:32.

3,000 steeplechase — 2, Garrard, 9:47.07 (school record).

400 relay — 4, Ottawa, 43.83.

Long jump — 6, Jones, 20-5.

Shot put — 3, Brown, 48-6.75.

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OU school track records fall in Bethel meet

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