Results

ROLLA, Mo. - The Bulldog Track & Field teams stepped outside for the first competition of the spring at the Miner Invitational at Missouri S&T. Ellie Weltha made her Truman Track & Field debut and won both the Shot Put and and Discus while men's national qualifier Jacob Morris broke his own school record with a win in the Discus.

Weltha, who has earned first team all-conference honors on the basketball court this winter, won her first two collegiate throw events in track and field. Weltha toss the discus 43.88 meters to best 28 other throwers. In the Shot, Weltha nearly hit an NCAA provisional mark as she came up .01 meters short with her best mark of 13.94 meters. She was tops again out of 30 shot put entries.

Quinn Albertson led a trip of Bulldogs in the javelin with a third place showing. Alberston's best launch was 38.32 meters, followed by Natalie Telep at 37.33, good for 5th and Jaylynn Martin's 37.09, good for 6th. 

Audrey Gilmore had the best finish for a women's track performer with a 5th in the 400 meter hurdles and a time of 1:14.50.

Morris racked up medals in three of the four throw events during the meet. He won the discus with a record-setting 58.37 meter throw. It was his own school record he broke that was previously 56.96 meters and well past the NCAA Outdoor qualifying mark of 50.41 meters. 

Morris was second in the Hammer at 55.69 meters, third in the Shot Put at 15.32 meters and sixth in the Javelin at 52.55 meters. 

Nathan Key was fourth in the men's 1500 meter run with a time of 3:57.47.

Jake Higgs and Hayden Long competed in the Decathlon. Long won two of the 10 events and finished second in a third to score 5,443 points. Long won the Javelin with a mark of 54.43 and the Discus at 38.35 while placing second in the Shot Put at 10.70.

The teams will split up next week with the bulk of the squad heading to the Southwest Baptist Invite in Bolivar, Missouri and the distance runners competing in the Washington University Distance Carnival in St. Louis.