NIU track & field: Claudette Day topples three indoor records

NIU track & field | Claudette Day

NIU track & field | Claudette Day

By Northern Star staff

Track and field sophomore Claudette Day re-wrote the school’s indoor record book three times in two days.

Day broke the program record in the 60-meter hurdles, pentathlon and long jump Friday and Saturday at the Jack Johnson Invitational at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minn.

Day took first place in the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 8.43 seconds. Her time broke the school record of 8.49 seconds, set by Megan Gregory in 2012.

In her first pentathlon event of the spring season, Day took second place with a score of 3,850. Her score broke Latesha Bigby’s 3,835, which Bigby set at last season’s MAC Championships.

Day also posted a 5.80-meter jump in the pentathlon long jump event, which broke the school record.

Overall, the Huskies nabbed seven top-three finishes and two victories in the the two-day indoor event.

In addition to Day’s win in the 60-meter hurdles, the team of senior Julie Cronin, sophomores Tahtyana Peer and A’Iesha Irvin-Muhammad and freshman Lydia Harold won the four-by-400-meter realy with a season-best time of 3:50.28.