Winning Provo Marks Highlight Eagle Indoor Teams’ Season-Opening Efforts At SVSU

Junior Molly Winner, senior Jade Avance and sophomore Carter Smith were the Ashland University standouts as the 2025-26 indoor track and field season got underway on Friday (Dec. 5) at the Saginaw Valley State Holiday Open.
 
All three won their respective events, while earning provisional marks toward the 2026 NCAA Division II Championships in Virginia Beach, Va., on March 13-14. Winner had Friday's top mark in both the women's shot put at 15.22 meters/49-feet-11¼ and the women's weight throw at 21.12 meters/69-feet-3½, Avance crossed the finish line first in the women's 800-meter run in 2:10.71, and Smith won the men's pole vault at 4.80 meters/15-feet-9.
 
In the men's 60 hurdles, both freshman Jon Lutz (second, 8.01 seconds, tying Trevor Bassitt's program freshman indoor record) and sophomore Ty Allen (third, 8.10 seconds) earned provisional times. Junior Leslie Pollock was second in the women's weight throw with a provo of 20.29 meters/66-feet-7, while sophomore Hayden Valenti's third-place showing in the men's weight throw at 19.01 meters/62-feet-4½ also was a provo mark.
 
FIRST PLACE

• Junior Hailey Rios in the women's 60 dash (7.68 seconds).
• Senior Analeise Artino in the women's mile run (5:28.76).
• Senior Abby Wheeler in the women's high jump (1.62 meters/5-feet-3¾).
• Junior Sidney Sheppert in the women's triple jump (11.13 meters/36-feet-6¼).
• Junior Christian Seibert in the men's triple jump (14.36 meters/47-feet-1½).

SECOND PLACE

• Junior Kara Fields in the women's pentathlon (3,254 points).
• Senior Hope Sievert in the women's 800 run (2:14.11).
• Junior Justin Richards in the men's long jump (6.83 meters/22-feet-5).
• Rios in the women's long jump (5.58 meters/18-feet-3¾).
• Junior Cameron Nightingale in the men's pole vault (4.65 meters/15-feet-3).
• Senior Joe Wahl in the men's 200 dash (21.88 seconds).
• The women's 4x400 relay team of sophomore Brianna Chenevey, junior Montana Walker, Avance and junior Jordan Rosales (3:52.88).
• The men's 4x400 relay team of freshman Trevor Stearns, Wahl, and juniors Brian Turner and Colton Thress (3:19.32).

THIRD PLACE

• Junior Odessa Smith in the women's 60 hurdles (8.89 seconds).
• Senior Levi Hondred in the men's long jump (6.77 meters/22-feet-2½).
• Sophomore Hunter Long in the men's pole vault (4.50 meters/14-feet-9).
• Freshman Tierra Johnson in the women's high jump (1.62 meters/5-feet-3¾).

NEXT UP
Saturday (Dec. 6) on the second and final day of the SVSU Holiday Open.