Montana State University
Mt. SAC Relays
Two New Relay Records Cap Historic Week in L.A.
4/19/2025 7:20:00 PM | Men's Track and Field, Women's Track and Field
Montana State track and field closes out competition in southern California with their sixth and seventh school records of the week
LONG BEACH, Calif. -- Montana State track and field closed their week-long stay in southern California on Saturday with two new school records in the women's relays.
Full results from the Mt. SAC Relays in Walnut can be viewed here, with results from the Beach Invitational in Long Beach available here.
"It was an amazing weekend for our team," head coach Lyle Weese said. "There have been so many school records and all-time top ten marks, which is a clear sign we are reaching new heights. The women's team has continued the team-wide breakthrough from the indoor season. With school records in all events and areas, the women's team is making a statement."
Racing at the prestigious Mt. SAC Relays at Hilmer Lodge Stadium in Walnut, the women's 4x100 meter relay squad of Brooke Reuter, Peyton Garrison, Jadyn VanDyken, and Jaeden Wolff turned in a blazing time of 44.90 seconds to break the school record.
It marks the first sub-45 second relay in Bobcat history, eclipsing the previous best of 45.05 set last season by Garrison, Wolff, Elena Carter, and Leigha Carter.
Later in the afternoon at the Mt. SAC Relays, the women's 4x400 meter relay team of Jadyn VanDyken, Peyton Garrison, Giulia Gandolfi, and Caroline Hawkes smashed their own school record set two weeks ago in Las Vegas with a new blistering mark of 3:33.66.
The time was nearly two full seconds faster than their race run at UNLV, and placed them third in a Power Four-filled field ahead of Arizona, Colorado, Arizona State, BYU, and Northern Arizona.
The time is the 27th-fastest relay run in NCAA Division I this season, and marked the seventh school record broken by the Bobcat women's track and field squad this week to put an exclamation point on a historic few days.
"Over the last two weeks of competition, all four relay school records have been set," Weese said. "This includes twice for the women's 4x400. Relay school records are an indicator of team depth and also a sign of good culture with teams relying and depending on one another."
On Wednesday night in Azusa, Grace Gilbreth broke the record for the 3,000 meter steeplechase.
On Thursday afternoon in Long Beach, Sydney Brewster set a new school and Big Sky Conference best in the shot put, while teammate Emma Brensdal matched the feat with a new program-best in the discus. Hailey Coey also broke the school record with a big leap in the long jump.
On Thursday night in Azusa, Kyla Christopher-Moody broke the record in the 5,000 meters.
And on Saturday afternoon in Walnut, Reuter, Garrison, VanDyken, and Wolff piled on with a new school record in the 4x100 meter relay before VanDyken, Garrison, Gandolfi, and Hawkes finished it off with another record in the 4x400 meter relay.
Seven new school records for the Bobcat women--all within the span of four days.
Meanwhile in Long Beach, Libby Hansen cleared a personal-best bar in the pole vault, getting over 12-11.50 to place ninth.
The mark moves the junior from Helena up to No. 9 all-time in program history.
In all, 17 new program top-ten marks were added to the record books during the week with several NCAA Regional-qualifying performances that put Bobcats in position to advance to this year's NCAA West Regional in May in College Station, Texas.
"The last two weekends of competition have been transformative in the level of performance for our program," Weese said.
UP NEXT
Montana State will send a group of distance runners to compete at the Payton Jordan Invitational, hosted by Stanford in Palo Alto, California, next Friday, April 25.
A larger group representing more event groups will head to Missoula to take part in the Montana Open, hosted by the University of Montana at Dornblaser Field from Friday, April 25, through Saturday, April 26.
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