The Santa Clara University women’s track team competed at the Payton Jordan Invitational on May 1, posting several distance performances at Cobb Track and Angell Field in Stanford, California.
The event featured strong results for the Broncos, including a significant improvement in the steeplechase and a near all-time mark in the 1,500 meters. These performances highlight ongoing progress for individual athletes as well as the overall program.
Milaina Almonte finished tenth overall in the 3,000-meter steeplechase with a time of 10:39.52, improving her No. 3 mark in program history by nearly twenty seconds from her previous best set earlier this season. Sydney Lim ran 4:30.63 in the 1,500 meters to place nineteenth overall and fourth in her heat, coming just under half a second off her own No. 6 mark on Santa Clara’s all-time list.
Other notable finishes included Olivia Schlieman placing twenty-third (4:37.03) and Kiera Kime winning her heat while finishing twenty-fourth overall (4:37.67) in the same event. Additional competitors such as Aliyah Yearian (31st), Kaylee Volner (33rd), Alyssa Wyatt (34th), Mariah Aragon (36th), Sophia Smithstanza (37th), and Rachelle Cormier (38th) rounded out Santa Clara’s representation in the race.
In other events, Sigrid Brakenhielm led Santa Clara with a twentieth-place finish in the 800 meters with a time of 2:15.98, followed closely by Heidi Green who placed twenty-first at 2:17.50. In the women’s 5,000 meters Ramneek Kaur finished forty-eighth (18:16.82), Julia Russo was forty-ninth (18:29.86), and Isabella Gonzalez placed fifty-first (18:36.21).
Santa Clara is scheduled to compete next at the Franson Last Chance meet on May 8-9 hosted by Azusa Pacific.
