AMES, Iowa – The Drake track & field team racked up several event victories and personal bests in the Iowa State Classic hosted inside the Lied Recreation Athletic Center on Saturday, Feb. 3.  
 
"All event areas were solid today," head coach Jay Koloseus said. "We had finalists in sprints and the throwers continued to roll. Our distance athletes really showed out with three winners. Nearly every Drake women's track athlete who ran set a personal best." 
 
Centaine Noom-Duckworth once again matched her school record weight throw of 62-3.75" for third place in the event while Chinemerem Iwuagwu set a personal best of 56-9.75" on her third attempt.  
 
Adam Phillips turned in a runner-up weight throw performance of 69-6.00" with Anthony Barmes in third (69-0.00").  
 
Emilie Meyer won the women's 800m with a time of 2:11.53 followed by Amanda Radava in fourth with her personal record of 2:15.24. For the third consecutive meet, Savannah Ming qualified for the 60m finals.  
 
Brooke Mullins (9:35.33) and Carmen Krawczynski Gonzalez (9:37.82) were second and third place respectively in the women's 3000m run.  
 
On the men's side, Drake swept the top four places of the 3000m run with Enzo Marie (8:05.18) crossing the finish line first just ahead of Brogan Giffin (PR, 8:05.64) as Aziz Jdai (PR, 8:09.39) and Aidan Ramsey (PR, 8:10.27) were neck-and-neck.  
 
Barbara Vrhovac ran a personal best of 4:58.90 in the women's mile.  
 
Isaac Basten broke Adam Fogg's Lied Recreation Athletic Center men's mile facility record with a new facility best of 3:56.48 in his first official race of the 2023-24 indoor season. Juan Trasobares set an indoor mile PR of 4:09.10 to round out the Top-10.  
 
Drake track & field has the Tyson Invitational in Fayetteville, Ark., next on its schedule with select athletes to compete Feb. 9-10.