Cougars capture three titles on final day of Big 12 Championships

LUBBOCK, Texas – BYU finished runner-up in the Big 12 Championships behind titles from Jane Hedengren, Riley Chamberlain and the 4x400-meter relay team Saturday at the Sports Performance Center.

The Cougars totaled 110 points, just behind Texas Tech’s 114.5. It marked BYU’s highest point total at the indoor championship since joining the Big 12. Oklahoma State took third with 97 points.

The 4x400m squad of Paje Rasmussen, Marianne Barber, Kali McEuen and Sami Oblad won the conference title, just shy of its personal best. The quartet was led off by Rasmussen, who opened with a 53.98 split. Barber followed with a 52.45 that would have been a career best in the open 400 meters. McEuen ran third and moved into third place with a 53.86. Nearly two seconds behind Texas Tech on the handoff, Oblad surged ahead late, passing the Red Raiders in 51.13 to anchor the lineup to the win.

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Hedengren won the 3000m by nearly 10 seconds, setting a facility record in 8:46.11. She closed in 32.38 for her first conference title in the event.

Chamberlain won the 800m in 2:06.21 for her second Big 12 title. The senior pulled ahead at 600m to take the lead from Iowa State’s Makayla Clark. Sophomore Tessa Buswell finished third in 2:06.97, just three-thousandths of a second behind Clark. Chamberlain and Buswell combined for 16 points.

Chamberlain added a runner-up finish in the 3000m, placing second in 8:56.28 behind Oklahoma State’s Isca Chelangat. She moved up seven spots over the final half of the race.

Hedengren finished runner-up in the mile in 4:24.33. The freshman led until the final 100m, when Oklahoma State’s Billah Jepkiuri moved ahead. Hedengren finished more than 10 seconds ahead of the rest of the field to earn eight points. Zariel Macchia placed fifth in 4:47.22, closing with a 31.45 final lap.

Rasmussen ran a personal-best 22.91 in the 200 meters to extend her school record and finish third. She also placed third in the 60m dash in 7.26, 0.01 seconds off her personal best. The two performances combined for 12 points.

Oblad took second in the 400m, extending her school record to 51.48. Barber finished in 53.99. The pair combined for nine points.

Jacey Harkins-Farmer and Jenna Hutchins combined for five points in the 3000m. Raygan Peterson and Taylor Rohatinsky also competed in the event.

Lexi Goff-Thompson earned three points with a sixth-place finish in the 1,000 meters in 2:46.17.

Up Next

The NCAA will announce entries for the indoor National Championships on Tuesday, March 3. The championships are set for March 13-14 in Fayetteville, Ark. at Randal Tyson Track Center.