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The Chicago State women's track & field teams competed in the Aurora Grand Prix today. Freshmen Abigale Limo, Sanaa Parker, Caroline Jelimo and Brenda Jepkoech shattered the record for the Women DMR with a time of 13:25.52 and placed first, while Miahna Harden, Rikki Gray, Myshell Hurse, and Jayda Ireland placed second in the Women 4x400 with a time of 4:01.58.
All the Individual Results are posted below.
Women's Grand Prix Final Results
Women 60m - Prelims
8. Jayda Ireland - 7.97q
30. Shamauri Brackett - 8.41
Women Distance Medley
1. A. Limo, S. Parker, C. Jelimo, B. Jepkoech - 13:25.52
Women 60m - Finals
6. Jayda Ireland - 8.04
Women 400m
5. Rikki Gray - 59.33
Women 200m
5. Rikki Gray - 25.56
14. Jayda Ireland - 26.58
15. Sanaa Parker - 26.58
19. Myshell Hurse - 26.81
45. Kendra Chambers - 27.94
56. Shamauri Brackett - 28.27
63. Sanaya Ross - 28.50
Women 4x400
2. M. Harden, R. Gray, M. Hurse, J. Ireland - 4:01.58
Women High Jump
11. Sanaya Ross - 1.45m
Women Long Jump
34. Kendra Chambers - 4.22m
The women's track and field team will next compete in the Meyo Invitational on February 3rd in South Bend, IN.
About Chicago State
Chicago State University Athletics is comprised of 15 intercollegiate teams involving over 150 student-athletes that compete in basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, tennis, indoor and outdoor track and volleyball. CSU held memberships in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) and NCAA Division II before transitioning to NCAA Division I in 1994. Melvin Bland was the first CSU student-athlete to gain NAIA All-American status in 1974 as a wrestler. Fred Evans became the first black swimmer ever to win a national championship in 1975. In 1991, the Chicago State women's tennis team became the first all-black college team to amass an unbeaten season at the NCAA level. CSU's women's basketball team won the 2011 Great West regular season and tournament championship and earned a spot in the 2011 Women's Basketball Invitational. The CSU's men's basketball team won the 2013 Great West Conference Tournament title, also making an appearance in the CollegeInside.com Postseason Tournament (CIT). The Men's Outdoor Track & Field 4x100-Meter Relay team were 2019 Honorable Mention All-Americans and WAC Champions. Their feat marked the first time the Chicago State's men's track & field program was represented at the national meet. Chicago State volleyball recorded a historic season in 2021, with Yanlis Feliz becoming CSU's first volleyball All-American and head coach Tony Trifonov earning selection as WAC Coach of the Year. During that same season, three different CSU teams earned victories over Big Ten opponents with men's soccer beating Northwestern, women's basketball upending Wisconsin and volleyball, which established a school record 17 wins and hosted a post-season volleyball tournament for the first time in program history, swept Indiana in Bloomington.
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