NOTRE DAME, Ind. – Sophomore Brooke Moore brought down a 19-year-old school record as more Sycamore distance runners shined again at the conclusion of the Meyo Invite at the Loftus Sports Center at Notre Dame on Saturday.
 
Moore, a native of Notre Dame neighbor Elkhart, Ind., has been barreling toward current senior associate athletic director Angie Lansing's 1998 record of 4:50.12 since her first race as a Sycamore at IU in late 2015 (4:57.07). After dealing with some minor injuries the rest of her freshman year, Moore has been a dynamic runner for the Sycamores in her second campaign – earning All-MVC honors as the third-place finisher at the MVC Cross Country Championships in the fall and following with a steadily superb indoor season in which she has set a new PR in the mile and 800 each time she has run either event.
 
Today, Moore ran a steady race early on before jumping into the top pack at the halfway point and challenging for the win down the stretch, obliterating Lansing's record by seven seconds at 4:43.04 to finish 12th overall and second in her heat – and turning some heads in the process.
 
"Our milers had a good day, but the standout performance has to be breaking a 20-year-old school record set by an NCAA qualifier in Angie," said ISU head coach Angela Martin. "I'm really excited for Brooke. This is a huge step toward bigger goals down the road, and on bigger scales as well."
 
At press time, Moore ranks 29th in the NCAA and leads the Missouri Valley in the mile.
 
The Sycamore men's milers also kept the pedal down with career-bests of their own. Junior Blake Kramer was 24th overall and seventh in Heat Three at 4:11.74 (the seventh-best time in the conference), and sophomore Quentin Pierce won Heat Two and finished 27th overall at 4:12.51 (the eighth-best time in the Valley). Both are impressive considering they both were part of ISU's distance medley relay last night – with Kramer running the leadoff 1200 and Pierce anchoring a 4:09 mile to close.
 
Senior All-American Alethia Marrero had another impressive week of double-duty – this week including running the anchor on the 4x400-meter relay and a return to her signature event, the 800-meter.
 
Marrero ran in the women's invite 800 first, where she finished sixth in the invitational section and seventh overall at a team-best 2:09.24. Marrero hadn't run the 800 since finishing fifth for First-Team All-American honors at the 2015 NCAA Outdoor Championships. Currently she ranks 43rd in the NCAA and second in the Valley.
 
Not long after, Marrero helped the women's 4x400 of Imani Davis, Jamie Newsome and Oschtisha Jackson run the sixth-best relay in school history at 3:45.26 (second in Heat Two, 15th overall). The women's 4x400 has run a new season-best in each meet this indoor season.
 
Junior Jaime Murtagh was also in an invitational in the men's invite high jump, where he earned a top-three finish with another solid day's work. Murtagh was clean over the first three bars at 1.98m (6-06.00), 2.03m (6-08.00) and 2.08m (6-09.75) before succumbing to the bar at what would have tied his career-best at 2.12m (6-11.50), finishing tied for third at 2.08m (6-09.75).
 
The Sycamores also had a pair of strong performances in the 400-meter dashes. Freshman Imani Davis ran a new career-best and a team-best at 56.21 to finish 27th overall – the sixth-best time in the conference this year.
 
Senior Tyrell Dowdell, meanwhile, was in the invitational section, where he finished 10th (16th overall) at a new season and team-best 48.32 – the fourth-best time in the Valley in 2017.
 
"I felt like our depth today got a little bit better in several events," Martin said. "The team stepped up to the challenge of such a high-caliber meet, and I think we're on the right track toward what we need to do for indoor conference."
 
Up next for the Sycamores is a trip down to Samford University in Birmingham, Ala. – site of the NCAA Indoor Championships last year – for the Samford Invite on Feb. 10-11.
 
OTHER NOTABLE PERFORMANCES
 
Men's 60-Meter Hurdles:
4. Marcus Neely – 8.12sf – 7.96f
6. Daley Carter – 8.03sf – 8.01f
 
Women's 3,000-Meter:
38. Taylor Austin – 10:04.34 – SB, Team-Best
 
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