The Lake Forest College track team is at Monmouth College this weekend competing in the 2025 Midwest Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships. The Foresters earned points in seven different events and qualified for three finals on Friday.

The first of Lake Forest's two school record performances on day one of the competition was turned in by sophomore Sophie Graham in the women's 5000m. She finished 25 laps around the track in 18:50.43, which was good for seventh place in the field and the best time in program history by just 0.21 seconds.

The top placing by a Forester in a final on Friday came from fellow sophomore Lettia Hoda in the women's mile. She finished sixth in the race in 5:21.71, which moved her up a couple of spots to #2 on the program's list of the top times in each event. Senior Bart Brophy followed that performance with a seventh-place finish in the men's mile, which he finished in 4:26.86, He as already ranked second in team history in the event and missed his career-best clocking by less than two-tenths of a second.

Lake Forest sprinters also had a good day on Friday. Junior Jacquelyn Han accounted for the meet's sixth-fastest time (10.68 seconds) in the prelims of the women's 60m hurdles and sophomore Payton Ross was third in the men's field at 8.68 seconds. Both hurdlers have advanced to the Saturday's finals.

Junior AJ Jones reached the final in the women's 60m with a season-best time of 8.06 seconds, the fifth-best mark on Friday. While sophomore Shuntaro Nakamura did not advance in the men's 60m, he now ranks second in school history in the event with a time of 7.25 seconds.

Friday's competition also included a pair of relays. The Forester women were eighth in the spring medley relay, where the time of 4:51.37 turned in by freshmen Farah Tawfik and Andrea Fernandez, junior One Kenosi, and senior Delfina Jorgensen ranks third in team history. Freshman Alex Pavlov, junior Mason Wright, senior Matthew Lungu, and sophomore Ollie Francis followed with a fourth-place finish in the men's race with the program's second-fastest mark. The women's 4x200m relay team of Jones, Tawfik, sophomore Willa Bullers-Shah, and Kenosi broke the school record and was seventh at the meet in 1:52.50 and the men's team would have done the same but was disqualified for a relay handoff violation.

Another update to the program's top performance list came in the men's long jump, where the leap of 19'8" by freshman Jalen Williams ranks him third.

In addition to the finals in the 60m and 60m hurdles, Saturday's final day of competition will feature Foresters competing in the finals of the 400m, 800m, 3000m, and 200m as well as the triple jump and distance medley and 4x400m relays.