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Austin Hewes, Owen Lashenik, Bart Brophy, and Matthew Lungu

Two All-Conference Performances, More School Records on Final Day of MWC Championships

3/1/2025 4:24:00 PM

The Forester track team broke three more school records and turned in a pair of all-conference performances to close out the 2025 Midwest Conference Indoor Championship Meet on Sunday.

The men's distance medley relay team of freshman Owen Lashenik, senior Matthew Lungu, sophomore Austin Hewes, and senior Bart Brophy earned All-MWC honors by placing third and their time of 10:41.57 was a program record by nearly eight seconds.

Additional All-MWC accolades went to sophomore Payton Ross, who finished third in the finals of the 60m hurdles in 8.61 seconds.

Junior AJ Jones was nearly an all-conference honoree in one event and was part of program records in two others on Saturday. Her season-best time of 7.988 seconds was good for fourth place in the field, just six thousandths of a second behind third place. She then finished eighth in the 200m but shattered her own indoor school record in the event with a time of 26.97 seconds. The final event of the meet was the 4x400m relay and Jones led off for the Foresters, whose eighth-place time of 4:20.32 was nearly four seconds faster than the program's previous record.

Freshman Farah Tawfik and juniors Jacquelyn Han and One Kenosi followed Jones on the relay. Han was also sixth in the 60m hurdles in 10.54 seconds and Kenosi climbed a couple of spots to second on the Foresters' list of the best 400m runners in team history with a time of 1:05.12. An additional update to those lists came in the women's 200m, where sophmore Willa Bullers-Shah now ranks third at 29.07 seconds.

The women's distance medley relay team of sophomore Sophia Graham, freshman Andrea Fernandez, and sophomores Avery Huffman and Lettia Hoda placed fourth in the field and their clocking of 13:27.04 ranked second in school history. The men's 4x400m relay team also recorded the program's second-fastest time, finishing in 3:37.92.

Since Lake Forest has never had a women's triple jumper before, no record in the event could be broken but one has now been set by Zahra Tait, who qualified for the finals with a mark of 30'3" and placed ninth.

The Forester men and women combined for 44 points at the meet, their highest combined total in five years.

The team's outdoor season will begin with North Central College's First Chance Invitational in four weeks.
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