SPRINGFIELD, Mo.– Drury senior Claire McCune won the 5,000-meter run, and DU track & field athletes broke four school records as the Ichabod Invitational hosted by Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas on Saturday.
 
McCune captured the title in the 5,000 meters, winning her third race of the indoor track & field season. The Springfield native broke a Drury record with a time of 16:51.90 and won the event by four seconds. Her time is also a provisional qualifying time to the NCAA-II championships in March.
 
Freshman Imani Brown set a school record in the 400-meter dash. The freshman from Munster, Indiana, came in fourth with a time of 59.24. Earlier this year, she became the first women's runner at Drury to break the one-minute barrier in the indoor 400.
 
Valerie Daehler was 13^th in the high jump and also set a new school standard in the event. Daehler, a freshman from Rockford, Illinois, cleared 1.57 meters breaking a mark she set last week at Northwest Missouri State.
 
Men's track & field athlete Tracy Gates set a school record in the triple jump. Gates finished seventh among 17 competitors as the Waynesville native and transfer from Indian Hills Community College posted a jump of 14.43 meters.
 
Saturday's meet concluded the regular season for Drury's indoor track & field teams. Next on the schedule is the NCAA-II indoor championships, March 11-13 in Birmingham, Alabama. 
 
 
 
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