The Lake Forest College track team traveled to Ripon College to compete in the Red Hawk Invite on Saturday.

The Foresters broke a program record in their first event on the track when the men's sprint medley relay made up of sophomore Mason Wright, freshman Shuntaro Nakamura, junior Matthew Lungu, and freshman Ollie Francis won the race with a time of 3:42.05. The previous mark was more than five seconds slower and was set nearly six years ago.

Another record fell in the Lake Forest women's team's first race, the 4x200m relay. Sophomores AJ Jones and Jacquelyn Han teamed up with seniors Sarah McField and Annie Pulaski to finish third in 1:56.72, three seconds faster than the previous mark set in 2020.

Han also matched her own school record of 10.65 seconds in the women's 60m hurdles, as did freshman Payton Ross with a clocking of 8.86 and third-place finish in the finals of the men's race.

Additional updates were made to the program's top times list by freshman Lettia Hoda and junior Bart Brophy. Hoda was fifth in the women's 5000m and her time of 19:57.63 ranks her fourth in team annals. Brophy was seventh in the men's mile in 4:27.22, good for second on the Foresters' all-time list.

The team added four more performances that earned points at the meet. Freshman Patrick Cadiz was sixth in the men's 5000m in 17:26.64 while Jones, Francis, and freshman Jake Bianchi turned in seventh-place finishes in the women's 400m (1:03.52), men's 800m (2:04.60), and men's long jump (12.51m), respectively.

After taking next weekend off from competition, Lake Forest will continue the indoor season at the University of Chicago's Margaret Bradley Invite on Saturday, February 17.