GREENCASTLE, Ind. -- Lindsey Wilson College senior Kristina Wimsatt set a program record and scored in a pair of events to help the women's indoor track & field team finished 12th at the DePauw (Ind.) University Invitational on Saturday at the Hollensteiner Track.
Wimsatt had a near-perfect day in the long jump. She won the event while setting a program record and qualifying for the NAIA Indoor National Championships in March in Johnson City, Tenn.
Wimsatt's program record was one of three records to fall during the meet. Lindsey Wilson finished with 14 team points. Bethel (Ind.) College captured the team title with 160.5 points.
The Owensboro, Ky., native, recorded her win with a jump of 17 feet and 7 inches (5.46 meters) in the long jump. Wimsatt's distance was three inches farther than Murray State (Ky.) University's Audris Williams who finished second. Wimsatt picked up 10 points for the win.
She added another point to the team's total in the high jump. She cleared the bar at 4-7.75 feet to finish eighth in the event.
Junior Candace Young contributed two points with a seventh place finish in the 600-meter run. Young finished with a time of 2 minutes 10.29 seconds. Sophomore Alicia Mattingly added another point with her finish in the mile run. Mattingly completed the mile in 5:51.75 to finish eighth in the 16-woman field.
In addition to Wimsatt's record, freshman Ruth Olson and junior Nicole Furnish added to the record-setting day.
Olson set a program record in the 55-meter hurdles with a time of 9.85 seconds in the preliminaries. Olson's time fell two-hundreds of a second short of qualifying her for the finals.
Olson set the program's new mark by nearly a second over the old mark set by Erin Bomgardner in 2000.
Furnish race walked her way into the Lindsey Wilson record book with a time of 14:51.00. She beat the previous record by more than 40 seconds.
Lindsey Wilson returns to action on Saturday, February 20 as they return to Greencastle for the DePauw Indoor Classic.