The Forester track team competed in the Elmhurst Invitational on Thursday and returned home with four new program records.

Junior Matthew Lungu contributed to two of them. He finished third in a field of 38 runners in the men's 400m and broke his own school record in the event by a tenth of a second with a time of 50.82. Lungu also led off Lake Forest's 4x400m relay and was followed by freshman Ollie Francis, sophomore Ali Faiz, and junior Bart Brophy. Their time of 3:30.94 was good for fourth place out of 13 teams in the event and broke the previous program record by two-and-a-half seconds.

Francis and Brophy narrowly missed out on the school record in the 800m. Francis finished fifth in a field of 52 competitors with a time of 1:56.76 and Brophy sixth in 1:56.96 while the record set in 2018 still stands at 1:56.39.

Faiz turned in a time of 4:08.32 in the 1500m and now ranks third in team history in the event.

The other marks that did fall came in the women's 400m and 100m hurdles. Sophomore One Kenosi needed just 1:03.59 to circle the track and better the previous record by .16 seconds. Junior Jacquelyn Han broke her own record in the hurdles by more than half a second with a time of 16.96 seconds.

Kenosi also moved into fourth place in program history in the 200m with a clocking of 29.38 seconds and she led off for the women's 4x400 relay, which now ranks second in team annals at 4:28.17. She was joined by Han and seniors Becca Ray and Annie Pulaski and the quartet placed fourth in the race.

The Foresters' top placing at the meet on the women's side came in the 5000m, where freshman Lettia Hoda was fourth with a time of 19:24.16 and classmate Sophia Graham fifth in 19:33.58. Hoda already ranked second in team history at that distance and Graham is now fifth.

In her final career race, senior Becca Ray turned in a personal-best time of 2:31.98 in the women's 800m, improving on her fifth-place standing in program history in the event.

The meet was the last for Lake Forest before the team competes in the 2024 Midwest Conference Outdoor Championships May 10-11 at Illinois College.