Complete Results

AMES, Iowa – The 4x400m relay team of Morgan Milbrath, Ashley Tingelstad, Ashley Heinze and Paige Stratioti shattered the NDSU school record and posted one of the nation's top times to cap an impressive effort by the North Dakota State women's track & field team at Iowa State's Bill Bergan Invitational on Saturday.
 
The quartet finished in 3:39.62 to break the two-year old school record of 3:41.12 by one and a half seconds. The previous record was held by Brittany Page, Antoinette Goodman, Brittany Schanandore and Stratioti. The Bison now rank 11th in the nation this season in the relay.
 
Tingelstad and Stratioti both posted individual times that rank among the nation's top 15 this season on Saturday.
 
Tingelstad took second in the 400m dash in 53.94 seconds, which stands as the second-fastest indoor 400m performance in NDSU history behind only her school-record 53.72 on the same track last season. Based on marks entering Saturday, Tingelstad now stands among the top-15 women in NCAA Division I this season. Heinze also ran a personal-best 57.64 in the event.
 
Stratioti placed third behind a pair of All-Americans in a loaded 800m field, finishing in 2:07.75 for a lifetime best that ranks fifth all-time at NDSU and among the top 15 in the nation this season.
 
Bison senior Antoinette Goodman finished third in an extremely fast 200m field that saw two-time NCAA 400m champion and USA Championships bronze medalist Ashley Spencer of Texas take the title. Goodman posted a time of 24.23 seconds – the second-fastest 200m in NDSU history behind only her school record 23.98 at the 2013 Summit League Championships. The top six finishers on Saturday came in under the previous meet-record time.
 
Sophomore Erin Teschuk took runner-up honors in the mile, finishing in a personal-best time of 4:51.31 that puts her at No. 5 on the Bison all-time list.
 
Just four meets into her college career, NDSU freshman Morgan Milbrath moved to ninth all-time at NDSU in the 200m with her time of 25.05 for 10th place on Saturday. Fellow freshman Rose Jackson ran a season-best 25.34 for 14th place.
 
Sophomore Anna Benke cleared 12-09.50 (3.90m) in the pole vault for the second-best vault of her career. She already ranked second in school history in the event. Caitlin Mack cleared 12-03.50 (3.75m) for sixth in the pole vault.
 
Senior Heidi Peterson ran 10:10.75 to win the unseeded section of the 3,000m.
 
Junior Emily Lesser was sixth in the shot put at 46-08.25 (14.23m).
 
NDSU will host the Thundering Herd Classic on Feb. 7-8.