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Dec. 11, 2021 – Loras College women's track and field sophomore Grace Alley put her talents on display in the first indoor track and field meet of the season at the Dubuque Championships, hosted by the University of Dubuque, on Friday and Saturday as she set school records in the pentathlon and triple jump with four of Division III's top-20 marks. The Duhawks also saw Marion Edwards and the 4-by-400-meter relay put up the best times in the nation this season in addition to multiple nationally ranked and all-time best performances.

Alley was the first Duhawk to compete on Friday in the pentathlon, improving on her previous best tally by nearly 800 points to score 3,531 to win the event, good for second in Division III this season, and shatter the all-time mark by 425 points. She followed up her historic achievement with another on Saturday, winning the triple jump and setting the school record with a leap of 11.82 meters which ranks third nationally. Alley added another top-ten jump in the long jump (5.32 meters) which sits her tenth in the Duhawks' record book and 17th nationally. In the high jump, she cleared 1.61 meters which ties her for tenth in program history and 14th in Division III.

Edwards started off Saturday's events leading a 1-2-3 finish for the Duhawks in the 60-meter dash as she won the race in 7.73 seconds, just .02 off her personal best, to rank No. 1 in the nation. Kelly Kohlhof finished second in 8.01 and in her indoor season debut, Harmony Creasy finished third, running 8.03. Edwards and Kohlhof had strong showings in the 200-meter dash as Edwards finished second (25.83) and Kohlhof went 26.47 for third, ranking 15th in the nation. Stevie Lambe ran 26.51 and now sits 19th on the national scale. Edwards also ran lead off for the Duhawks' 4-by-400-meter relay with Elayna Bahl, Merryl Green and Alyssa Pfadenhauer to run the fastest time for a relay this season to lead Division III (3:58.91).

Pfadenhauer, coming off a runner-up finish at the outdoor national championship in the 400-meter dash, won the event in 58.86, the fourth-fastest time in the nation. Bahl ran the seventh-fastest mark in the nation in the prelims of the 60-meter hurdles (8.99) and won the event in 9.10. Green finished third, running 9.89. Bahl also finished second in the high jump, clearing 1.59 meters and Creasy was the runner-up in the long jump with a leap of 5.20 meters.

In the throwing events, Taylor Flaig finished second with a throw of 12.54 meters in the shot put, ranking 11th nationally and Kayla Weatherly finished third (12.52 meters), good for 12th in Division III. Flaig also finished third in the weight throw (15.28 meters), putting her 18th on the national level.

The Duhawks finished second as a team with 65 points while Dubuque took the team title with 75 and Clarke University finished third with five points.

Loras will be back in action in the new year, traveling to Davenport to compete at St. Ambrose University on Saturday, Jan. 15.