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Iowa State University Athletics
2023 Track and Field Season Review
06.21.2023 | Track and Field
AMES, Iowa – Director of Track and Field/Cross Country Jeremy Sudbury's crew wraps up the 2023 track and field season with nine All-America honors, eight new school records and 38 outdoor and 25 indoor individual all-conference honors.
On the Rise
The Cyclone women put up both the highest Big 12 outdoor conference finish (third) and point total (107.5) in program history, topping the previous highs of a fourth-place finish and 89 points. The women ended the season ranked 37th in the USTFCCCA National Rating Index.
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘥𝘰𝘰𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘪𝘯 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘮 𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺.
— Iowa State Track & XC (@CycloneTrackXC) May 14, 2023
The ISU women cement third with 107.5 points, both the highest outdoor team finish and point total in Iowa State history. #CycloneSZN pic.twitter.com/Wz8I8LvSWZ
Iowa State continues to show progress season-to-season as ISU notched 28 NCAA West Prelims entries, up from recent years after the Cyclones had 23 in 2022 and 21 in 2021.
Logue's Legacy
Cailie Logue earned two First Team All-America nods at NCAA Outdoor Championships and won the Big 12 title in the 5K and 10K to end her Cyclone career as a six-time All-American and 13-time Big 12 Champion. Logue's 13 titles are the most by a Cyclone. The senior is also the 17th Cyclone and seventh ISU woman to earn six All-America honors.
Nobody Like Logue.
— Iowa State Track & XC (@CycloneTrackXC) May 19, 2023
Cailie Logue is the first in Big 12 history to sweep the 5K and 10K three times and the only women's Big 12 runner to earn three outdoor 5K titles.#CycloneSZN pic.twitter.com/m9zw8RavJ0
A Season of Firsts
Janette Schraft became the first women to become an All-American in the steeplechase as the junior earned Honorable Mention with a 17th-place finish of 10:05.58, .54 seconds off Second Team honors. Schraft recorded another Iowa State first as she set the school record in the steeplechase with 9:57.55, marking the only sub-10 minute time in ISU women's history.
Kaylyn Hall recorded her name as the first Cyclone to be crowned the 100m hurdles Drake Relays Champion as the senior raced to a new personal record of 13.12, a slim .02 seconds off the program record. Hall capped her Iowa State career with a Big 12 silver medal and a quarterfinals appearance in 100m hurdles at NCAA West Preliminaries.
The Cyclones also recorded the first conference weekly awards sweep in program history as Thai Thompson and Sydney Willits earned Big 12 Athletes of the Week.
800U
The 800 squad of Jason Gómez, Cebastian Gentil, Darius Kipyego and Peter Smith held the lowest average time in the nation with 1:47.12 to rank at No. 1 in the USTFCCCA Event Squad Rankings the entire indoor season. Gómez (1:46.53) and Gentil (1:46.75) posted top-16 ranking times in the nation to move on to indoor nationals and earn All-America honors.
The Iowa State 800 squad remains #1 heading into postseason.
— Iowa State Track & XC (@CycloneTrackXC) February 22, 2023
‣ Gómez // 1:46.53, #4 NCAA
‣ Gentil // 1:46.75, #7 NCAA
‣ Kipyego // 1:47.38, #18 NCAA
‣ Smith // 1:47.83, #27 NCAA#CycloneSZN pic.twitter.com/2lWAZeUKC9
In outdoor season, Iowa State returned to the Penn Relays for the first time since 1922 as the 4x800 ran among the most elite field in the nation. Smith, Kipyego, Ezekiel Rop and Gómez made their presence known recording the 16th-fastest clocking in all-time collegiate history with 7:13.94. The time went down as the second-fastest in program history, right behind ISU's school record of 7:12.57.
Record-Shattering 4x400 Relay
Kurtis Brondyke's sprinting squad of Bria Barnes, Zakiyah Amos, Rachel Joseph and Makayla Clark put up a remarkable season breaking the indoor program record with 3:36.80, after Amos, Hall, Joseph and Barnes broke the 2013 record (3:39.07) earlier in the season with 3:36.90.
The squad next set their eyes on the outdoor record as Barnes, Amos, Joseph and Clark took down the 10-year-old record (3:36.22) clocking 3:35.58 at Texas Relays. At Big 12 Championships the team demolished their own record with 3:31.02 to take hold of the silver medal and rank 15th in the nation and seventh in the West region and move on to NCAA Regionals, a first for the Cyclone women since 2014.
Freshman Phenoms
The freshman class put on a show totaling seven All-Conference honors through indoor and outdoor season while Joseph, Makayla Clark and Emanuel Galdino earned their spots at NCAA West Prelims. A total of nine true freshman recorded their names as top-10 ranked program performers throughout 15 indoor and outdoor events.
One of those freshmen is Joseph who set the tone in her very first race as a Cyclone, taking hold of the indoor 400m program record. Joseph again lowered it at Big 12 Championships to 52.92 before heading into outdoor season and moving up the outdoor 400m program ranks. The Texas native opened her season in the event with the fifth-ranking ISU time of 53.72 and improved her ranking to No. 2 a month later with 52.36. Joseph also ranks fourth in the 200m in addition to being a member of the indoor and outdoor 4x400m teams.
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