INDIANAPOLIS - The IU Indianapolis women's track and field team posted five new personal bests as the Jaguars competed on day one of the Crossroads of America Invitational at the Indiana Farm Bureau Fall Creek Pavilion at the Indiana State Fairgrounds on Friday (Jan. 23). The distance crew primarily stole the show as three of the team's five entries recorded new personal bests. 

Four of Friday's personal bests were registered by freshmen as the team's newcomers continued to establish their presence at the start of the season. 

The day started with junior Journey Howard just missing a new personal best in the 60m hurdles, clocking a time of 9.13 seconds in the prelims. Her time was the quickest by a Jaguar this season and missed a personal best by one-hundredth of a second. Later, sophomore Jahzara McAlister was the quickest Jaguar in the 60m dash, running a time of 7.92 seconds in the prelims while Skyler Sichting ran 8.40 seconds. 

Freshman Jenna Twedt posted a new personal best in the 600m event with a time of 1:41.90 as the team's lone entrant. 

In the high jump, Howard had a best jump of 1.51m (4' 11.5'') capping her busy day while senior Jada-Marie Davis cleared 1.47m (4' 9.75''). 

In the 3,000m event, freshman Riley Flynn made her uniform debut with a time of 10:48.83 and was runner-up in her heat. Senior Julynne Spidell popped a major personal best mark of 11:04.50, taking seven seconds off her prior best and classmate Carina Alanis returned from injury to run 11:09.07. Freshman AnnMarie Gibson ran a personal record time of 11:15.05 and Hannah Robbins finished at 11:15.12. 

Freshman Sophia Palmer closed the night with a personal best effort of 26.44 in the 200m dash, taking two-hundredths of a second off her previous best. 

The Jaguars will return to action on Saturday, beginning with the shotput at 9:45 a.m.